Olds News

Four Grade 10 students from Olds High School will be leaving on May 10 to Windsor, Ont., for the Canada Wide Science Fair. Madison Fleming and Cali Wright were selected after the regional science fair in Red Deer for their project, "Bacteria in Ice.

More than 100 participants braved the wind and snow to raise money for hospice palliative care during the annual Olds Hike for Hospice on May 4.This year, 101 people were registered, who raised $16,670.

A sex offender who escaped from the Bowden Institution on the afternoon of May 4 was caught roughly 3.2 kilometres north of the prison that evening.

Olds police are asking for the public's help in locating Andrew Christie, 51, who was last seen at his home on April 29.

The Town of Olds passed a three per cent tax increase to cover its 2014 snow removal budget shortfall and to replenish reserves.

A Red Deer judge handed an eight-year jail sentence to the man who twice-robbed the Olds TD Canada Trust in less than a year.

Central Alberta is one of three areas in the province where Alberta Health Services (AHS) has declared a measles outbreak.

What first-year Olds College brewmaster student Garret Haynes observed made no sense.

Olds volunteer firefighter Rus McKevitt returned from a humanitarian trip in Burundi last summer unable to enjoy western luxury, the comforts of North American life having lost their lustre.

The Olds Albertan and Simply for Life are looking for six eager people to take part in the Olds Lifestyle Challenge this spring and summer.