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1. Darcy Davis wins PC voteNOV. 27: The former chair of the Alberta Beef Producers will carry the PC Party banner for Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills in the next provincial election.

Holy Trinity Catholic School parents will be fundraising for a new playground by holding a bottle drive from Jan. 5 to 7.

The Parkland Foundation Housing for Seniors is launching a feasibility study into how best to modernize Innisfail's half-century-old Autumn Glen Lodge, a process that could mean a new and more spacious facility for low-income seniors throughout Red D

Reeve Bruce Beattie says he is considering his options regarding his future on council following the death of his wife Val on Christmas Eve.

Although Mountain View County's public works shop in Carstairs is budgeted for cleanup measures in 2012, the extent of salt and gasoline contamination on the site was spelled out to councillors at their Dec.

Mountain View County councillors posed some tough questions for the fiscal impact analysis of the Netook Crossing project at their Dec. 14 policies and priorities committee meeting.

Red Deer County council approved the $73.7-million 2012 budget last Tuesday, increasing residential property taxes by an average of 3.5 per cent.

Impatient with the City of Red Deer's timelines to redevelop its Riverlands District, the Forth Junction Heritage Society is now targeting up to nine sites in Red Deer County for the main location of its ambitious dream to transform the region into a

The solar system's largest planet is making quite a spectacle of itself in the night sky and will remain visible until about March, according to a celestial expert.ìJupiter's been up, visible for quite some time, a couple months now.

Renowned animal behaviour specialist Dr. Temple Grandin will be coming to Olds College for a one-day workshop on Jan. 18, organized by Mountain View County and the Foothills Forage and Grazing Association (FFGA).