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A proposed joint training facility in Morinville’s east end means local fire departments won’t have to send members out of the area to strengthen their skills.

The Labour Day long weekend was a relatively quiet one for both the St. Albert and Morinville RCMP detachments. "We had no serious collisions to contend with and no impaired driving charges were laid on the long weekend," said Cpl.

The Kidney Foundation is hoping for good weather and many friends this weekend, as it sets up for another fundraising event in an annual series.

Lois Hole, former lieutenant-governor and St. Albert’s beloved matron of all botanical arts, has been gone from the physical world but she still looms large in our collective consciousness.

The operators of Servus Credit Union Place hope to ramp up the facility’s social media traffic with the help of four students from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT).

In the Grade 1 hallway at Keenooshayo School, children who finished kindergarten not three months ago were familiarizing themselves with desks and their cubbies. While some clung to their parents, one boy asked his looming father, “Are you leaving yet?” Jennifer Grovestine, whose daughter Maren is also starting Grade 1, laughed as she left the class.

A faulty laptop sparked a blaze in North Ridge Monday afternoon that caused an estimated $100,000 in damage. The St. Albert fire department responded to the single-dwelling home at around 4:15 p.m.

The St. Albert Steel are officially in default of their agreement with the City of St. Albert, which expired Friday without the former AJHL hockey club paying off the balance owed to the city.

Jelena Mrdjenovich's smile and charming personality hide something very important; She can almost certainly knock you out. In her decade long career as a professional boxer 14 opponents have been sent to the canvas.

She carries the years well. The structure is still strong and the face still shines and the overhauls have been regular and extensive, but in the end there's no hiding the fact that the Alberta Legislature is 100 years old.