Olds News

This year's Olds municipal election run went from boring to boggling in the span of 24 hours, with 13 candidates stepping forward for council, while the sole mayoral candidate was acclaimed. And it was not Mayor Judy Dahl.

When it comes to planning for life after high school and following a career path, not many high school students will give a concrete answer.

This month, Olds RCMP are promoting the Olds and Area Drug Initiative (OADI).

The following profile of a teacher in the Chinook's Edge School Division has been prepared to highlight World Teachers' Day, which this year, occurs on Oct. 5. Its purpose is to draw attention to the contribution teachers make each day.

Garbage was spread out over a portion of 65th Avenue, just outside the Olds Fire Hall as firefighters battled a fire in a garbage truck on Wednesday (Sept. 27). Firefighters say the cause of the blaze has not been determined. There were no injuries.

Although they've since been taken down, incoming Olds mayor Mike Muzychka stands by tweets he wrote that said in essence that the Paris Climate Accord is unfair and that Black Lives Matter (BLM) and the Ku Klux Klan (KKK, an American white supremacis

The Rotary Club of Olds is putting on an East Coast Kitchen Party on Oct. 28 at the Olds College Alumni Centre.

Olds community member Gavin Hamilton has passed away, and friends and family gathered after his funeral last week at St. John's Anglican Church to piece together a strange set of clues related to his estate, which the local timber man left behind.

It seems Jennifer Jackson was destined to be a nurse. When she was four years old, she lived next door to a Red Deer College nursing instructor. "Jennifer thought Cora Lee was the most amazing person in the world," said her mother Pauline Jackson.

Tax changes proposed by the federal government will hurt local farmers, business people and doctors, according to a tax lawyer who spoke in Olds.