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There were five skilled musicians backing George Canyon’s headline act at the Rainmaker Rodeo last Saturday. But the moment he hit the stage singing Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire, it was just him and a guitar.

Kids will cross the Sturgeon a little easier at this year's children's festival thanks to a massive metal bridge from the Edmonton Garrison. Troops from the 1 Combat Engineer Regiment built a medium-girder bridge over the Sturgeon River Sunday.

A heavy police presence combined with enhanced security, good weather and mellow music led to a relatively problem-free rodeo weekend. Local officers took an all-hands-on-deck approach to the festivities, but detachment commander Insp.

A dozen members of a national youth volunteer service organization are looking for a place to call home.

“Alberta knows how to give’er!” That’s the word, according to Econoline Crush’s frontman Trevor Hurst, who was speaking, er, shrieking between songs during his band’s set.

The city wants motorists along St. Albert Trail to slow down, and it's going to use speed-on-green technology to make sure they do. On Monday night, council agreed to convert the city's existing red-light cameras along St.

Alberta’s fairness watchdog is calling for more transparency from the committee that decides what out-of-country medical care will be covered by the government.

A local farmer was fighting to keep the province from taking his land this week in a legal battle that pits ducks against crops. Andrew Lutz was one of five Sturgeon County farmers that appeared in St.

The St. Albert Youth Community Centre has a place to call home for another seven years, but it isn't the former RCMP building.

It seems nothing gets Roger Belley more fired up than the prospect of kids and woods. That could explain why he was in full cheerleader mode during St. Albert's Arbor Day celebration this week.