Big Country Thrift Store celebrated 10 years in Oyen on June 10th, 2025. The volunteers served a total of 103 burgers, chips, drinks & cheesecake.

We have new books on the adult fiction and non-fiction shelves.  Check out My Friends by Fredrik Backman and The Crash by Freida McFadden in the fiction section.

It was a big-league baseball experience that truly was a classic. The Rural Roots Baseball Classic - an event staged by the Western Canadian Baseball League (WCBL)…

View photos of the Legion poster contest winners from Assumption Roman Catholic School, Oyen Public School, South Central High School, and Warren Peers School.

Right now, measles cases are rising across southern Alberta. Alberta Health Services (AHS) has advised people in the South Zone of a widespread potential exposure risk…

The RCMP’s Musical Ride, an iconic Canadian spectacle recognized at home and abroad, and a symbol of tradition, honour, and pride, will be trotting across Alberta this summer.

With summer around the corner, roadways will become increasingly busy, and your Alberta RCMP would like to remind commercial and passenger-vehicle motorists how to share…

We live in a time of complex and wicked problems: climate change, economic inequality, violent conflict and human rights violation.

DRUMHELLER - On the evening of June 11, 2025, Drumheller RCMP initiated a traffic stop with a vehicle along Highway 56 after witnessing a traffic infraction.

DRUMHELLER - Drumheller RCMP are seeking assistance from the public in locating a missing youth female. Kaya Milligan (15), a resident of Camrose…

In the last couple of weeks, Ottawa has been busy, not only with a new session, but a new parliament. The Conservative team has welcomed 44 new Members…

CASTOR - A man from Red Deer is dead after the vehicle he was driving crashed with a truck northwest of the town of Castor.

Alberta is investing more than $20 million to help Alberta’s drilling experts develop new technologies to keep responsibly powering the world.

Enjoy this week’s editorial cartoon.

Enjoy this week’s comic strips and have a laugh!

Pete Rose, a Hall of Famer? Yes or no? The late Rose, who passed away in September of 2024, is at the heart of one of baseball’s greatest debates…

Last week, I attended three graduations. And though I couldn’t be at two of them in person, I did my best to be fully present.

This week’s observations could be compared to the opening lines of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s famous sonnet. A revised version could read, “How do I love thee, fellow Canadians?…

Premier Danielle Smith issued the following statement in response to the new Ipsos poll’s findings…

It was nice to have a few warm and calm days in between all the windy ones. We are all still waiting for that moisture to show up.