Olds News

Town council has waived the business licence requirement for small businesses participating in the Summer Oldstice event taking place on June 21 and 22. About 60 vendors will be temporarily setting up shop in the uptown core during the two-day event.

Residents of the closing Michener Centre in Red Deer will have the option of moving to six residential spaces in the Olds area.

Operations staff from the Town of Olds are urging people to get splash pads or proper extensions on their downspouts to deal with all the rain that has been falling in the community recently.

Police are asking for the public's help in tracking down a man accused of robbing the TD Canada Trust bank on 50 Avenue on June 4.

Olds town council passed a recommendation from the Citizens Committee on Council Compensation that would see the mayor's honorarium increase by 27 per cent to $2,650 per month.

Deciding not to go the way of "uplifting and inspirational quotes that focus on the future," Ben Misener, the valedictorian for Olds College's 97th convocation, instead encouraged his 713 follow graduates to remember the special time they spent at th

Olds College was honoured with three Association of Canadian Community Colleges awards for excellence, including two gold and a bronze, at a ceremony in Penticton, B.C. over the weekend.

Olds Healthcare Lifeline, a medical alert service designed to help seniors live in their own homes, is holding a celebration to mark its one-year anniversary as the preferred medical alarm provider of the Olds Healthcare Fundraising Committee, at the

Staff from the Town of Olds are monitoring the effects of recent rains in the community closely. According to Ken Ryning, who runs the weather station at Olds College, 81.8 millimetres of rain fell from May 23 through May 26.

The board of governors of Olds College passed the institution’s 2013-14 budget of $50,279,000 at its monthly meeting on May 23, giving the college a surplus of $893,000 for the upcoming year.