Red Deer residents have been rolling up their sleeves since H1N1 vaccination became available to the general public on Monday.

Freed after 15 tortuous months in captivity in Somalia, Canadian freelancer Amanda Lindhout and another foreign journalist arrived Thursday in neighbouring Kenya amid claims that a $700,000 ransom was paid for their release.

The city’s animal shelter is full. Red Deer and District SPCA executive director Julie Crawford said as Christmas approaches, “there’s no room at the inn.”

The N1H1 flu took its toll in Red Deer court on Wednesday. A preliminary hearing for two men charged with aggravated assault and robbery was postponed because two of the key parties in the trial are sick.

A bed shortage and lack of staff at a Calgary forensic unit has delayed sentencing of a man convicted this summer of sexually assaulting a woman.

A $24-million program to replace traditional power and water meters with automated ones has stalled because of provincial regulation delays concerning the equipment, says the head of Red Deer’s Electric, Light and Power Department.

Joseph and Mary, played by Ben Jenkins and Miranda Smith, hold the baby Jesus. Deer Park Alliance Church’s seventh annual Singing Christmas Tree performances begin Friday, Nov. 27. About 150 actors, singers, musicians and technicians make up the show A Baby Changes Everything directed by Sharon Nielsen. Unfortunately, as in past years, free tickets are no longer available for the total of 10 ...

A man who stole $10,000 worth of copper wire in Lacombe is headed to jail. Robert Bourque, 40, of Campbell River, B.C., was sentenced to seven months in jail after pleading guilty to two business break-ins and possessing a small amount of marijuana when he appeared in Red Deer provincial court on Wednesday.

Plasco Energy Group executive vice-president Chris Gay doesn’t hesitate when asked to respond to skeptics of his company’s waste-to-energy ambitions.

Bowden prison officials have found a package of about 92 grams of marijuana estimated to be worth in excess of $20,000.

A Red Deer area man, arrested after he was late for court on Monday, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to cocaine trafficking.

Red Deer’s largest high school welcomes a new principal in February. Jim Clevette takes over the helm of Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School on Feb. 1, replacing Gary Unterschultz, who is retiring, the Red Deer Public School District board of trustees announced on Tuesday.

Bring them your swamps, your sloughs, your willow-filled pastures. Ducks Unlimited Canada is tightening its focus on wetland restoration in two areas of Alberta — Pine Lake and Milk River.

Birdwatchers will have a much better view at Gaetz Lakes Sanctuary when a $313,000 project is finished over the winter.

he burner of the Air-ristocrat hot air balloon lights up Ross Street during the Santa Claus Parade Tuesday night.

A Red Deer girl used her seed money to decorate pencils and sold them in her school, raising cash for the Red Deer & District SPCA.

A Red Deer County councillor expressed concern on Tuesday that government cutbacks could cause communities to drop out of a regional sewer line project.

Police and friends are asking for help locating an Innisfail man who has gone missing.

Red Deer RCMP are investigating to see if armed robberies at two pharmacies were committed by the same woman.

Three Stettler males, including one aged 15 and one aged 17, have been charged with sexual assault on a girl stemming from a September incident.