For the second straight month, rent was down slightly in Red Deer in May.According to the National Rent Report by Rentals.ca and Urbanation, Red Deer was ranked 53 out of 60 Canadian markets for average rent by city and unit type in May.Only Quebec City, Lethbridge, Regina, Fort McMurray, Medicine Hat, Lloydminster, an...

The 20th annual Central Alberta Children's Festival is this weekend at Recreation Centre Park in Red Deer's downtown.Hours Saturday are 9-4:30.Tickets are $10 for all, except for infants under one-year-old.A family pass (four people) is $35.Entertainment includes:Box CityPancake SaturdayJojo's Magic CircusAmanda PandaP...

Alberta musician Corb Lund is set to be in Red Deer next week in an effort to gain enough signatures for his "Water Not Coal" citizen initiative petition that opposes coal mining in Alberta's eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.The deadline to meet the threshold of 178,000 signatures is approaching on Wedne...

Two Ponoka men are facing charges after a break-in at a rural lease site last month.On May 13, 2026, shortly before 1:30 p.m., Ponoka RCMP responded to a report of a break and enter at a rural lease site in Ponoka County. According to Mounties, the complainant reported locating a truck in the lease site with two males ...

A decision by Canada's heritage minister to put $600 million towards the country's film and movie industry to eliminate the, so called, 'Netflix' tax doesn't make a lot of sense to one Alberta politician. Conservative and Lethbridge MP Rachael Thomas points out taxpayers will still have to 'foot the bill' regardless.&q...

With an upcoming referendum in the Fall, Elections Alberta says it's launching its largest-ever recruitment campaign of event workers.With ten questions on the slate, it added it will need to print 45 million ballots, almost two million more than the number of ballots cast in the province's 2023 general election."...

Alberta's Adam Macko has done it again.In just his 11th appearance in Major League Baseball, the 25-year-old Vauxhall Baseball Academy graduate earned his second career win on the mound as the Toronto Blue Jays rallied to beat the Baltimore Orioles 6-4 Sunday afternoon.Macko entered the game in the top of the sixth and...

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is expected to argue a change in federal policies would ease separatist concerns in Alberta when he makes a speech in Calgary on Monday.In an excerpt of that speech shared with The Canadian Press, Poilievre says separatist voices do not have an issue with their fellow Canadians, &qu...

The Central Alberta Buccaneers are optimistic about the upcoming season, and a big reason for that is the recruitment efforts to bring in more youth to the club.They were able to recruit approximately 20 new players, many of whom have recently played at the high school level in central Alberta, while also returning a c...

Learn more about this story by listening to Episode 73 of The Everything Red Deer Podcast!--For one day, the most popular sport in the world brought student-athletes from around Red Deer to Fairview Elementary -- a place where, fittingly, there are 42 countries represented and 39 languages spoken.But if you ask Fairvie...

The Innisfail Eagles senior men's hockey team says tickets for their upcoming second annual Blades & Birdies golf tournament are still available, but are selling fast. The tournament is set for Thursday, July 9, at the Innisfail Golf Club with a shotgun start at 9 a.m. Eagles head coach Ryan Dodd said they've had o...

MONTREAL - A 38-year-old man is facing six charges in the attempted arson of a Montreal-area synagogue last week. The charges include arson, possessing incendiary materials, using an explosive substance and possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose. ...

OTTAWA - Former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour has been installed as Canada's 31st Governor General, replacing Mary Simon. Today's ceremony included a 21-gun salute, a poetry reading and musical performances by two Canadian artists. Here's the lat...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Louise Arbour becomes Canada's new governor general Former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour will become Canada's 31st governor general today in a pomp-filled ce...

RICHMOND - Tom Tang, a 76-year-old former art teacher and street portraitist from China, now lives in a park in Richmond, B.C. He doesn't quite know how he ended up there. "Time all blurs together when you spend a long time wandering on the streets. I ...

OTTAWA - Extreme polarization and consensus are dangerous and a better Canada can only be built through the "peaceful management" of our differences, Gov. Gen. Louise Arbour said Monday, in her first speech as the King's representative in Canada. The f...

CALGARY - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is expected to call for a shift in federal policies as an antidote for separatist sentiment in Alberta. Poilievre is set to speak in Calgary later today, and an excerpt of his speech was shared with The Ca...

MADRID (AP) - Pope Leo XIV met Monday with six survivors of clergy sexual abuse in Madrid and vowed to consider their suggestions for how the Catholic Church can improve its response to the crisis, the Vatican said. The meeting, which fol...

MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Boris formed Monday and is expected to bring heavy rain, flooding and possible mudslides to parts of southern Mexico's Pacific coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Boris was located about 85 miles (1...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Israel and Iran traded fire Monday in their first attacks since the U.S. agreed to a ceasefire with Tehran two months ago. The Iranian military said hours later that it was halting offensive strikes, while Israeli Pri...