Lacombe

The RDP Queens won gold at the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference (ACAC) Indoor Track Championships. Also, the Kings Indoor Track team picked up bronze in Edmonton.

The Queens Hockey team solidified ACAC silver while the Red Deer Polytechnic Kings Hockey team captured a two games to one lead in the best-of-five ACAC Men’s Hockey Championship Final.

Red Deer's home sales are off to a hot start this year.

According to the latest Market Update from Central Alberta Realtors Association (CARA), sales are up month-to-month and have also risen compared to last year.

There were 130 units sold in February 2025, an increase of 34 from January 2025. Red Deer saw 110 units sold in February 2024.

New listings for Red Deer were at 145 for February 2025, with total inventory at 172, which is down 33 per cent from last year.

National Impaired Driving Prevention Week runs from March 16-22 and is a reminder to Albertans of the consequences of impaired driving due to alcohol, drugs, fatigue, or distraction.

All of which could have devastating consequences.

Sylvan Lake RCMP is reminding residents that all ice fishing shelters must be removed from Sylvan Lake by March 31.

People are encouraged to clean up any wood, garbage, or debris left behind in order to prevent any hazards as the ice melts and to keep the lake beautiful and clean for everyone. 

Always check ice conditions before heading out for clean-up duty.

Burman University will be hosting its first-ever Lifestyle Medicine and Flourishing Symposium in early May.

Dr. Pekka Maattanen, is an associate professor and Chair of Biology at Burman University.

"We're having a really special event to emphasize lifestyle medicine," he said. "Basically, the first president of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine will be coming to Lacombe and the event is really to emphasize the power of lifestyle medicine to both prevent, treat and even possibly reverse important chronic diseases that are a major issue in Canada."

Canada has a new Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister after Mark Carney took over as Prime Minister last week. Kody Blois, an MP from the Nova Scotia riding of Kings-Hants has been tapped for the role.

Blois says he has plenty of experience in the industry being raised in an area where agriculture is important.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is defending a nearly 23 per cent increase to her office's budget, saying it's coming at the expense of the Energy Ministry as her office assumes some formal and financial responsibility for promoting the province's oil and gas industry.

With a federal election call expected any day now, the Liberal party has only nominated about half of the candidates it would need to have a full slate on the ballot even as their polling numbers have been jump-started following their recent leadership race.

There will be 343 ridings contested in the upcoming vote and the Conservatives have nominated candidates in 275 of them so far. The NDP has 217 candidates and the Green Party has 208.

Canadians can expect to feel the absence of the consumer carbon price at the pumps immediately but it may take longer to notice a difference in the price of other goods, a new report released Wednesday suggests.

The analysis by Desjardins Economics comes less than a week after Prime Minister Mark Carney and his new Liberal cabinet ordered that the consumer levy be set to zero on April 1.

The carbon price came with a quarterly rebate to offset the cost of inflation; the final rebate will come in April.

Red Deer Polytechnic (RDP) and Sunchild First Nation have signed an agreement that will give Sunchild First Nation School students the opportunity to learn about trades work.  

Through the Sunchild Elders Village Program, students will gain firsthand experience of trades work in carpentry, plumbing, and electrical under RDP’s instruction and supervision, while also helping build homes for Elders near the Nation’s school.