Olds News

Olds RCMP seeks the public's assistance to solve a crime. Between the hours of 9:30 p.m. on April 8 and 5:30 a.m. on April 9, there was a break and enter at the Starlight Diner in Bowden.

A handful of residents attended an open house Tuesday at the Bowden Friendship Centre to give their feedback on the first draft of a revised Land Use Bylaw and Municipal Development Plan for the town.

Olds residents will get a 2.9 per cent tax rate increase in 2012. Town of Olds council had originally planned to increase last year's rate by 3.4 per cent in December.

When reFind owner Kristin Allan heard about the Olds Historical Society's financial troubles last December, she immediately started planning a fundraiser with Gotcha Jeans owner Mike Fix.

The sentencing of a 20-year-old Olds man charged after a 62-year-old woman was killed in a two-vehicle crash on the QE II last October has been delayed. The accused's sentencing hearing before Judge P.

An Olds suspect learned the hard way that attempting to evade the police is never a good choice. On April 17, at approximately 10:20 p.m.

The Olds Agricultural Society saluted three long-standing partners on Saturday during its seventh annual Chautauqua.

A total of 84 gymnasts from four clubs around Central Alberta attended the Olds Gymnastics Invitational on Saturday at Deer Meadow School.

An inmate who went missing from the Bowden Institution April 26 was located in Calgary early Saturday evening. Dean Leonard McClelland, 46, was located and arrested “without incident” in Calgary around 6:30 p.m.

Town of Olds administration told council that the town's 2012 education property tax requisition has increased by 9.85 per cent from last year. Town of Olds is expected to pay a requisition of $297,997 for 2012.