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In the collective imagination, saving money sometimes seems accessible only to those with high salaries. But is it still possible to save even on a modest income? The answer is “yes”!

Credit card companies often promote rewards and cash-back programs to encourage spending. However, these programs can make it easy for you to build up a balance that’s difficult to repay.

Along with mortgage payments and taxes, home insurance can be a major expense for homeowners. Is this the case for you?

Along with housing and transportation, food is one of the biggest expenses for most households—and rightly so! If your grocery bills seem to be constantly increasing, you can try a few smart ways to save.

With so many tax preparation software options available, you may think filing your own tax return is the most cost-effective option.

There’s a dream I’ve had for as long as I can remember—one that still returns now and then, like my mind is flipping through old photo albums when I’m not looking.

The month of January announces the end of the festive holiday season, along with shortened daylight hours and colder temperatures.

Enjoy this week’s editorial cartoon.

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

Mid-January is not normally the time of year for baseball-related sports columns, but what the Toronto Blue Jays are doing this off-season can’t wait for spring.

I was reading a social media post a while back from a gentleman who was in his local Tim Hortons one evening, pre-COVID, relaxing and enjoying his usual double-double.

One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever heard came from the poet Billy Collins: “Dare to be clear.”

A cartoon depicted a manager giving a comedian a bit of advice before he got on stage. “Don’t make jokes about people ’cause they’ll get offended.

By now, beloved Christmas decorations and ornaments are packed away, awaiting another Advent season. Families and friends gathered, visited, shared delicious foods, played, and prayed together.

Christ the Redeemer Catholic Schools is expressing gratitude to Associate Superintendent Michael Kilcommons of the Catholic Education Centre and offering best wishes on his upcoming retirement.

Hello everyone. January has had some good weather so far. There have been a few foggy days, during which the frost looked beautiful on the trees…

Paige Siegel is in her third year of education, working toward her bachelor of health sciences at Thompson Rivers University through online learning.

By Herald Correspondent, Calgary Herald June 29, 1942, p. 15. At the beginning of the school term the students of the Oyen high school organized a students’ union and decided to publish a paper…

Lynda Grudecki, ticket #0597, has won the $10,000 Oyen Lions 50/50 raffle. The draw took place on Dec. 31, 2025, during the Bullarama at the BCAS Crossroads Centre in Oyen.

From Dec. 24-31, 2025, the Alberta RCMP was busy conducting enhanced traffic safety enforcement throughout the province, resulting in 998 tickets being issued.

Coronation RCMP are investigating a fatal single-vehicle rollover that occurred early on Jan. 7, 2025, on Range Road 111 in Paintearth County.

A new year has begun, and the Alberta RCMP is providing intersection safety tips to help make our roads and highways safe for everyone.

ADULT FICTION: The Day I Lost You / by: Ruth Mancini, The Correspondent / by: Virginia Evans, Brimstone / by: Callie Hart, The Once and Future Queen / by: Paula Lafferty…

Alberta’s Minister of Affordability and Utilities, Nathan Neudorf, will travel to Montana from Jan. 6 to 7 to attend the Montana Chamber of Commerce’s annual Business Days at the Capitol.

Alberta’s government has launched a new webpage dedicated to a proposed oil pipeline to Canada’s northwest coast, aiming to provide a central hub for project information and updates.

Oyen RCMP have charged a man in connection with the alleged fraudulent sale of a combine.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Canadian government advertised homesteading in the Canadian West as a means to a prosperous future.

Congratulations to Fay Loken on winning the Year-End Christmas Draw! Our new books from the Scholastic Book Fair have arrived, in addition to our regular shipment of new books.

This month, first responders across Canada are teaming up to give blood in support of Canadian Blood Services’ 2025 Sirens for Life campaign.