Olds News

The Town of Bowden has officially entered into a new electricity distribution system franchise agreement with FortisAlberta. Bowden council adopted a bylaw at its June 24 meeting that includes the new agreement.

The Boys and Girls Club of Olds will conduct a survey in the fall, measuring the responses of local young people to the question, “What makes you feel confident?” More than 3,000 youth across the country aged eight to 24 have already answered the sur

The outgoing president of the Olds Grizzlys has raised concerns that the team's new president faces a potential conflict of interest since his son is a goaltender for the team.

Concerned about an apparent lack of police presence in town, Bowden council is inviting the commander of the Olds RCMP detachment to a future meeting to talk about reported spikes in crime in the community.

Home alone at the time, Todd Barkman, 19, was in the basement of his house with his headphones on when he heard voices from upstairs.

Staff are searching living units in the institution's medium security facility, she added, and a number of inmates were found with the same item.

CanIgetnearly$1.2millionforOldsCollege’sCentennialEntrepreneurshipLegacyfund?!?!?$1.2millionrightoverhere!Ihave$1.2million! Sold! More than 100 vehicles sold during the J.C.

Olds College received 55 residents from the Sundre area when parts of the town were put on evacuation order due to the Red Deer River spilling over its banks on June 20.

Several resolutions that were passed at the annual Federation of Canadian Municipalities conference in Vancouver, held from June 1 to 3, were of note to Town of Olds officials who attended.

The owner of the Hawthorne Way home destroyed by a fire last month said her insurance company’s investigation into the blaze concluded that a cigarette was the cause of the fire.