Olds News

Sparks flew while an allegedly intoxicated driver attempted to flee police in a wild car chase on Highway 2 between Bowden and Innisfail in the early hours of Sept. 4.

Olds town council ratified the South Red Deer Regional Wastewater Commission's revised business plan on Aug.

The Town of Olds has confirmed that Cam Clark Ford is in the process of buying the entire former site of Olds High School off of Highway 27.

Town council introduced a notice of intention at its Aug. 26 meeting to designate the building housing the Different Strokes art gallery on 50 Avenue as a Municipal Historic Resource.

The Town of Olds’ Municipal Planning Commission has given Rogers Communications the go-ahead to build a 30-metre telecommunications tower in town.

As school began on Sept. 3, four new staff members at Olds High School were eager to make it an even better place for students to learn.

Organizers of the second-annual Rotary Ride for Ronald fundraiser in Olds are hoping to bring out even more participants this year.

A public hearing is scheduled to take place on Sept. 23 on a proposed seven-duplex and three-unit townhouse development on 60 Street between Destiny Place and Destiny Way. Olds town council gave first reading to the proposal at its meeting on Aug.

Olds town crier Denis Patry returned from the 2013 World Invitational Town Crier Competition last month with the hope that Western Canada will start producing more town criers who could one day compete with their counterparts in the east.

The Uptowne Area Redevelopment Plan bylaw will be coming back to town council after council gave the document second reading on Aug. 26.