Lacombe

The County of Stettler has lifted all fire restrictions as of 10 a.m. on November 1, 2024.

Regular fire permit conditions will apply going forward.

New permits will be issued by contacting the County of Stettler office during regular office hours:

Alberta Health Service and Rocky Mountain House physicians have issued a joint statement on the Rocky Mountain House Health Centre and its surgical program.

The full statement is published below:

The Rocky Mountain House Health Centre and all its services – including the surgical program – is a vital resource for not only the community, but for central Alberta. Together, Alberta Health Services (AHS) and the local physicians are committed to supporting and growing local healthcare, now and into the future.

An attempted vehicle theft in Sylvan Lake on Thursday could have been much worse.

RCMP received the report around 4 p.m., that a vehicle was stolen in the area of Reynolds Road with children still inside the vehicle.

Shortly after driving away, the suspect abandoned the vehicle in an alleyway and fled on foot. 

Officers attended the scene and conducted a Police Dog Services track, but were unable to locate the suspect.

The children inside the vehicle were unharmed.

The suspect is described as

Brad Gushue will play for bronze this afternoon at the Pan Continental Curling Championships in Lacombe after falling to Japan Thursday night in the semifinal by a score of 8-4.

Gushue has only lost three games at the event dating back to 2022.

Team Canada will face Team USA this afternoon at 2 p.m. for the bronze.

China advanced to Sunday's gold medal game beating the U.S. 7-4 Thursday night.

Japan, USA, China, and South Korea will join host Canada at the 2025 BKT Tires World Men's Curling Championship in Moose Jaw, Sask next March.

Maureen Anderson lost both her sons to their overseas service in the Canadian Army, even if they died years later and a continent away from the hot dust and violence of the Afghanistan war.

Growing up, Ron Anderson was more serious, “a little fighter,” his mother recalls. His younger brother Ryan was quieter, softer. Both joined the military before they finished high school, already certain of what their career paths would be.

“My boys were very kind to me, and I miss them terribly,” Anderson said in an interview this week from her home in Oromocto, N.B. 

Mounties have dismantled what they say is the largest, most sophisticated illicit drug "superlab" in Canada that had been acting as a "supermarket" for organized crime. 

Police say the lab mass produced and distributed the powerful opioid fentanyl and methamphetamine across Canada and internationally.

David Teboul, assistant commissioner with the RCMP's Pacific region, told a news conference Thursday that dismantling the lab “undoubtedly saved thousands of lives in Canada and abroad.” 

Canada’s Team Rachel Homan is heading into the 2024 Pan Continental Curling Championships semifinals with a perfect record.  

Thursday (Oct. 31) afternoon’s 8-6 win over Team Miyu Ueno of Japan at the Gary Moe Auto Group Sportsplex qualified Team Homan for the 2025 LGT World Women’s Curling Championship in South Korea, and earned a playoff berth. 

Blackleg is a disease in canola mainly caused by the fungus Leptosphaeria maculans. It’s a serious disease that affect canola plants in the seedling stage by attaching to the stems and working up the stem as it grows, inhibiting the movement of water and nutrients within the plant. It can cause upwards of 50% yield reduction in severe cases. Blackleg was first spotted in western Canada in 1975 in north-east Saskatchewan. 

Residential school survivors are calling on Canada to criminalize residential school denialism, echoing one of the findings in a report about unmarked graves and burial sites associated with the institutions.

Doug George, a survivor of the Mohawk Institute, said Canadians need to acknowledge the schools' place in history and to ensure the children who died are not silenced.