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It’s been a big week for Shane Snook and it’s all over something short.

Tennille Needham snaps on her latex gloves and thrusts her hands in a jumbo jar of Cheese Whiz, lathering it on like lotion. “Pretend my hands are your teeth and the Cheese Whiz is sneaky germs,” she says to a Grade 1 class at J.J.

While St. Albert children are busy adding the finishing touches to their ghoul masks, real monsters are less likely to wander the streets on Halloween night. But as a measure of precaution, the St.

Glenda Keohane has been cancer-free for 12 years. One month after her 40th birthday, she was diagnosed with ductal carcinoma, the most common type of breast cancer.

A young family’s struggle to find an affordable home in this city points to the need for more housing options in St. Albert.

Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent, killed earlier this week after a hit-and-run attack in Quebec, is remembered by buddies in St. Albert as a good friend who loved his job. Vincent, who was posted around the country in numerous posts, lived in St.

St. Albert’s MLA is cautiously optimistic that a recently announced emergency room-based pilot program in Edmonton could have some beneficial results for EMS service in this city. On Oct.

A St. Albert arena project and a program for at-risk youth are hoping for more votes from the public, as they continue to contend for a piece of the Aviva Community Fund. A third project, to build a rock climbing facility in St.

Jim Hole says his family wouldn't be where it is today without the U of A's faculty of agriculture. His father, Ted Hole, graduated from the University of Alberta's agriculture school before starting his famous farm in St.

Father Jan students were temporarily locked inside their school Thursday due to reports that there was a disturbed and possible armed man in a nearby home. RCMP got a call at about 1 p.m.