Lacombe

On May 3, at 10:53 p.m. Ponoka RCMP received a report of a serious two vehicle collision on Highway 2A near Township Road 434.

Upon arrival, emergency responders located a GMC Acadia with a lone deceased 41-year-old female occupant.

The other vehicle, a Volkswagen Tiguan, had two deceased people inside, a 26-year-old male and 14-year-old male.

A third 14-year-old female occupant was taken to hospital by STARS but died due to the injuries incurred.

All 4 deceased people were residents of Maskwacis.

Emergency Preparedness Week (EP Week) is this week (May 4 to 10) and is a reminder for people in Canada to take concrete actions to be better prepared to protect themselves and their household during emergencies. The theme this year is "Be Prepared. Know Your Risks."

Here are some tips:

Grade Eleven students at HJ Cody High School in Sylvan Lake will be doing a food drive on Thursday, May 8th.

The students say they want to give back to the Sylvan Lake Community.

Bags have been left at many doors already across town. You are asked to fill the bag with non-perishable food items and leave it on your porch.

Donations will be picked up May 8th, from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm.

Food bank items can also be dropped off in person at HJ Cody High School.

Lacombe local Catherine Butcher will give a special solo performance in Red Deer on May 10 at the downtown branch of the public library.

The second violinist for the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra (RDSO) will be accompanied by piano and will perform masterpieces including Sarasate’s Carmen Suite, Johannes Brahms’s Violin Sonata No. 3, and a special composition by Paul Schoenfield.

Butcher, who has been playing since she was four years old, holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Calgary and a Master’s Degree in violin performance from McGill University in Montreal.

The 2025 WPCA Pro Tour canvas auction took place for one of chuckwagon racing’s premier events – the Ponoka Stampede – at the Stagecoach Saloon on the Ponoka Stampede grounds in Ponoka.

Alberta’s New Democratic Party has voted overwhelmingly to cut traditional membership ties with its federal counterpart.

Delegates in Edmonton voted Saturday to allow provincial members to opt out of joining the federal NDP, a move Leader Naheed Nenshi campaigned on last year.

In adopting the measure, the party is shedding what many considered a political albatross.

Nenshi told reporters the party's longtime practice of automatically signing up members to the federal party was a sticking point that scared some potential voters and members away.

Today marks Red Dress Day, the national day of awareness for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirit people (MMIWG2S) in Canada.

The day serves as both a remembrance of those lost and a call to action to end the ongoing violence facing Indigenous communities.

The red dress has become a powerful symbol of this movement, inspired by Métis artist Jaime Black.

Across the country, red dresses are hung in windows and from trees to represent the lives taken and the deep pain felt by families, friends and survivors.

Prime Minister Mark Carney will be watched closely by Canadians infuriated by Donald Trump — and by an anxious business community looking for tariff relief — when he meets with the U.S. president Tuesday in Washington.

After months of Trump's annexation threats, the newly elected prime minister will be tasked with a delicate balancing act — showing strength while maintaining Canada's place in a critical North American trade pact the president's tariffs have sought to upend.

The Town of Olds recently conducted a housing survey and heard a clear message from residents: housing is becoming harder to find, more expensive, and often doesn’t meet people’s needs.

Key findings from the survey include:

Mountain View County has provided an update on Wildfire RWF030, located west of Sundre within the Forest Protection Area.

Alberta Forestry has updated the wildfire’s status to Being Held. This classification indicates that, given current weather conditions and available resources, the wildfire is not expected to grow beyond its existing boundaries.