Olds News

While technology has helped bring many advances to the business world, it has also allowed unscrupulous operators to flourish as well, the Better Business Bureau of Southern Alberta and East Kootenay told an Olds and District Chamber of Commerce lunc

The Municipal Planning Commission gave the go-ahead last week to construct a $6-million wastewater lift station on 70 Avenue as part of the South Red Deer Regional Wastewater Commission's plan to eventually treat all the area's waste at the Red Deer

A pair of pit bulls that were running out of control on town streets last week were thwarted in an attempted attack on a Mountie when the police officer blasted the dogs with pepper spray.

A man charged after an 18-year-old Olds College student was run down and killed outside a bar in Olds in October will be tried for second-degree murder, a judge ruled Wednesday.

RCMP have identified the Calgary man who was arrested last month in connection to a break-in and theft at an Olds business. On Aug. 11 police received a complaint of a burglary at the Little House of Wireless at 5414 46 St.

A public hearing has been scheduled for the massive residential phase of the Cornerstone Olds project, a development in the town's northwest that could in the years ahead see a new neighbourhood with more than 1,000 residents.

Olds RCMP is seeking the public's assistance in recovering a stolen pickup truck that was removed from the lot of Cam Clark Ford on Aug. 29. Olds RCMP Cpl.

The woman charged after two Akita dogs attacked a man, a woman, and a dog on a Mountain View County acreage near Didsbury in July will go to trial in November.

Veteran Debbie Thompson is finally a principal and École Olds Elementary School is a happy place Nineteen years and 19 first days of school. And it is never the same. Each one is special.

Put down your hand-held cellphone, leave your iPod alone, stop texting and put your make-up away. Most of all keep your eyes focused on the road. Alberta's new distracted driving law came into effect last week (Sept. 1).