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With the provincial government moving forward with amendments to Alberta's human rights legislation to include gender identity and gender expression, the Chinook's Edge School Division is nearing completion of its new sexual orientation and gender id

The Mountain View Cowpoke Junior Rodeo club held its second rodeo of the season at the Raecer Ranching Riding arena east of Sundre on Nov. 21.

The proposed new multi-year Red Deer County budget was presented to councillors on Nov. 24, with the municipality now seeking public input pending the next council meeting.

Heavy snowfall impacts livestock, wildlife The new year opened with huge snowfall levels affecting livestock and wildlife across the region.

Newly re-elected Grain Growers of Canada (GGC) president Gary Stanford says he's pleased and humbled to be back as president for a second straight one-year term.

The provincial cabinet will decide whether municipalities seeking withdrawal from the Mountain View Regional Waste Management Commission by 2015 will be allowed to leave, according to the commission chair. “You can't just withdraw.

Carstairs senior Don James was so upset with Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills MLA Bruce Rowe's defection to the PCs on Dec. 17 that he protested outside Rowe's Olds constituency office on 50th Street on Dec. 22.

Despite losing more than half of its MLAs to the ruling PCs, the Wildrose party will continue to push the government to meet rural community needs, including more infrastructure funding, says interim Wildrose leader Heather Forsyth.

A planning committee is looking at the possibility of replacing the current Water Valley Community Hall with a new one, say officials.

The Chinook's Edge School Division (CESD) transportation system is increasingly under pressure because of inadequate government funding, according to a report approved by the CESD board on Dec. 10.