Olds News

The story headlined “Expect bigger, scarier haunted house” on page 7 of the Oct.

Town council appointed J.R. (Rick) McDonald of J.R. McDonald and Associates Inc. as Olds' interim CAO during its Oct. 24 meeting. McDonald's appointment is effective from Oct. 24 to Jan. 24.

Fifteen Olds Koininia Christian School (OKCS) students finished in the top 10 in a cross-country run for kindergarten to Grade 6 students. More than 1,200 students in the Chinook's Edge School Division participated in the event, held Oct.

The Olds Art Club's annual fall show and sale takes place this weekend, Nov. 5-6 at the Evergreen Centre. It will be open Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Ambulance (EMS) crews from Olds, Innisfail, Carstairs and Airdire responded to a multi-vehicle collision southbound on the QE II on Saturday. RCMP are investigating to determine how the collision occurred. It happened just before 9 a.m. near Twp. Rd.

BOWDEN - For the fourth year in a row hundreds of Bowden Institution inmates have been making a positive difference. They have chosen to “to reach out beyond the fence” by walking hundreds and hundreds of miles in the prison yard.

Mountain View Emergency Shelter Society outreach services coordinator Sasha Curr fears some members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community in Olds may harm themselves – even attempt suicide because they don't feel acce

BOWDEN – Paterson Grain is pushing its timeline back to the spring of 2017 for the start of construction for its massive Bowden terminal project as it continues to navigate through provincial environmental regulatory issues.

LGBTQ people in Olds are standing up for themselves and the community at large after recent newspaper coverage of a church-sponsored conference frustrated, angered and hurt many, they say.

A St. Stephen's Catholic Church committee is only about $4,000 short of its fundraising goal to bring a Syrian refugee family to Olds. The committee has been told it needs to accumulate about $35,000 to bring the family here.