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One wonders why Ron Cust isn't dead yet. The long-time Morinville resident has been through a ridiculous number of disasters during his 37 years as a firefighter.

One local man has a unique way of helping young people figure out their social adjustment problems – he takes them camping. Lee Eskdale runs the Wilderness Youth Challenge, now in its ninth year of operations.

After almost 18 months of study, research and work, St. Albert’s new off-site levy bylaw is ready for writing, with one notable exception.

Is that a crow or a raven? It's a question many an amateur birder might ask upon seeing a big black bird in St. Albert. And it used to be easy to answer, says Jocelyn Hudon, curator of ornithology at the Royal Alberta Museum.

A University of Alberta team has unveiled a new car it hopes will show the world that zero-emission transportation is possible. About 20 members of the U of A’s EcoCar team unveiled their latest zero-emissions electric car Thursday Feb. 28.

It was nearly noon on Wednesday morning and everything at Bellerose Composite High School was eerily quiet. Suddenly, a pair of bagpipers burst out of the gymnasium at full blare as they marched in a procession of students toward the atrium.

The city will have to set some new eco-targets for itself now that it has met several of them years ahead of schedule, a local committee has learned.

The last thing David Woolfson remembers from March 1, 2010 was watching the St. Albert man accused of assaulting him wheel a bicycle into Woolfson’s Edmonton pawnshop.

Morinville RCMP are asking the public for help with an investigation into an armed robbery at the Morinville Liquor Store just after 10 p.m. last Sunday.

The recent warm temperatures provided the perfect conditions for melting snow on lawns and driveways. But hiding beneath larger piles of snow is a less than welcome sign of spring – a fungus called snow mould.