Olds News

A 25-year-old Edmonton man accused of having between $300,000 and $500,000 in his possession when he was pulled over by police on Highway 2 on April 8, made a brief court appearance on Sept. 9.

Olds College will be working with a Calgary-based environmental company to improve on a process to recycle nutrients and water from manure. Livestock Water Recycling Inc.

About 10 greenhouse operators from across the province were in Olds on September 5 and 6 at the annual general meeting of the Alberta Greenhouse Growers Association. Another eight members of the association's board joined them for the meeting.

Leading up to the start of the second annual Community Learning Campus Mud Run on Sept. 7, most of the nearly 1,350 adults participating in the event were hardly able to contain their excitement.

The Central Alberta Pregnancy Care Centre based in Red Deer is planning to open a “satellite” facility in Olds in 2014.

A massive research project looking into the causes of cancer has set up shop in Olds this week.

Olds College will be hosting a seminar in February 2014 focusing on the latest research relating to canola.

Alberta's minister of international and intergovernmental affairs will speak to business people in Olds about market access on Sept. 17. Cal Dallas will be speaking at the Ramada Inn from 7 to 9 p.m.

Although the Town of Carstairs has resorted to buying a house in order to bring two RCMP officers to the area to bolster sagging police numbers in Didsbury, the commanders of the Olds and Didsbury RCMP detachments say they are having no trouble maint

The number of break-and-enters happening in Olds has exploded in the past three weeks with thieves targeting multiple businesses and homes.