Olds News

Olds RCMP are urging drivers to make sure they're fully rested when driving after they dealt with an accident in which fatigue appears to have played a major role.

For the second straight year, women in Olds College's brewmaster and brewery operations management program have created and sold a beer for International Women's Day.

A Calgary man is due in court May 18 facing a charge of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle after a vehicle cut through a couple of vehicles at what police describe as “a high rate of speed” near Bowden.

A 20-year-old Olds College brewery student has won a prestigious business plan competition for an idea that makes use of excess brewer's grains.

Council was expected to vote on a 1.5 per cent tax rate increase at its regular meeting last night. The policies and priorities committee reviewed the proposal at its meeting on April 18.

Olds RCMP are urging motorists to drive carefully, because traditionally, the rate of fatal collisions involving alcohol skyrockets during spring and summer.

The policies and priorities committee heard a delegation from the Olds RCMP on April 11, who reported that most crimes had declined during 2015.

An Olds college student's prize-winning idea to make use of spent grains from the brewery process has huge potential, he says.

The Olds Hospital and Care Centre has three ETAC transfer aids, thanks to the Olds Royal Canadian Legion (Branch 105). The legion covered the entire $1,763.21 cost for the aids, which will serve veterans and the community as a whole.

A motorcyclist has been hit with a $2,875 fine and an eight-month jail sentence after pleading guilty to several driving offences in the Bowden-Olds area – including going 65 km/h over the speed limit.