Olds News

Just more than 88 per cent of Grade 12 students at Olds High School graduated in 2012-13. Chinook's Edge School Division released the high school completion rate results last week. The division as a whole had a 78.

Signage installed roughly three years ago that decreased the speed limit to 20 kilometres per hour on Westview Drive near its intersection with 15 Avenue in Bowden will be removed. Bowden council voted unanimously at its Oct.

Olds College has been ranked as one of the top 50 research colleges in Canada by a Toronto-based research firm.

The Supreme Court of Canada has set a tentative date of March 21 for when it will hear the Crown’s appeal of a decision granting a new trial for a Calgary man convicted of killing an Olds College student three years ago outside the Texas Mickey

Twenty-two grade 7 and 8 students from Ecole Deer Meadow School’s creative gardening academy were busy making preparations on Oct. 30 for the spring planting of flowers and vegetables.

Sports teams and physical educational classes from Olds College and Olds High School have to find new homes for roughly seven weeks as the entire floor of the Ralph Klein Centre gymnasium is replaced.

The Olds Rotary Club is getting set for its annual Harvest Ball, the club's largest single fundraiser. The event will take place on Nov.

Roughly 160 seconds. That's how close Murray Jutras and his wife Donna came to losing $2,500 in what is commonly known as a grandparents scam. On the morning of Oct.

A Russian woman living in Bowden whose husband died of a heart attack on Oct. 20 is seeking the community's help to allow her to go home to her young daughter.

A fundraiser will be held on Nov. 2 for a local woman's granddaughter who has recently been admitted to a treatment facility for an eating disorder.