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1 week ago | rdnewsnow.com | Josh Hall

By Josh Hall | @Vancan19 developing RDES responds to large fire in West Park Friday evening May 30, 2025 | 7:22 PM Red Deer Emergency Services are responding to a large fire in the West Park neighbourhood, close to the FasGas. As of 7:20 p.m., details are scarce, but the City of Red Deer confirms crews are on scene, specifically at 4251 54 Avenue.

1 week ago | rdnewsnow.com | Josh Hall

By expectations of contract May 30, 2025 | 5:44 PM The City of Red Deer is offering some clarity on the situation surrounding Heritage Ranch. Earlier this week, the city shared it was severing ties with the current operator of Heritage Ranch, Joel Martens, who’s held things together there since 2010. That meant all bookings after May 26, including weddings, would be cancelled. It also means the closure of WestLake Grill.

1 week ago | rdnewsnow.com | Josh Hall

What’s more key, however, which McMullen revealed to rdnewsNOW, is that the City and 1190, just a week ago, struck a new agreement which will grant the ability to hire 12 temporary full-time EMS-only workers to fill in when understaffing would otherwise occur.

1 week ago | rdnewsnow.com | Sheldon Spackman

By April 2020 Incident May 30, 2025 | 11:10 AM It’s six years in jail for a Red Deer man charged in an Innisfail murder five years ago. Cory William Hales, 45, was sentenced in Red Deer Court of Justice on May 28, 2025, after being convicted on one count of manslaughter. He was given 607 days of pre-trial credit, however, leaving him with roughly four years and four months left to serve.

1 week ago | rdnewsnow.com | Ian Gustafson |Sheldon Spackman

By Heat wave May 30, 2025 | 9:42 AM Multiple daily heat records were set throughout central Alberta Thursday. On May 29, the temperature high in the City of Lacombe was 31.9 C beating the previously held daily record of 30.5 C, which was set 39 years ago in 1986. Records have been monitored in the area since 1907. Meanwhile in Red Deer, the daily high reached 31.6 C knocking out the previous record of 30.7 C also set in 1986.