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St. Albert’s second annual river valley picnic had beautiful sunny weather last Sunday but compared to last year there weren’t a lot of people around to enjoy it.

Morinville council gave the town's fire department the green light this week to partner with St. Albert in creating a joint firefighter training centre. The training centre will allow the two departments to train for small-fire scenarios closer to home instead of relying on training sites in Bon Accord, Edmonton and Nisku. A land use bylaw amendment for the site of the facility, located on the water reservoir site on East Boundary Road, is being presented to Morinville council on Sept. 11.

Around 300 family members and friends gathered Friday night to honour the memory of Brian Ilesic and create a lasting legacy for the young daughter he left behind.

Morinville RCMP are looking for three suspects after an early-morning attack sent one man to hospital with a stab wound to the back.

The city will focus on more aggressively pursuing its water conservation goals in 2013 with a long-term plan developed and approved by city council Monday night. Under the Water Conservation, Efficiency and Productivity Plan, St.

A proposal from the library on changing how it charges membership rates didn’t receive a warm response from Mayor Nolan Crouse on Monday night. After a request last December asking for the St.

It seems like every community has or wants to have a claim to fame, some unique feature to put it on the map. Legal is the French mural capital of Canada, for instance. Edmonton has the biggest mall in the country. St.

A St. Albert couple is hopeful their five-year-old daughter will be matched with a lifesaving bone-marrow donor. Halle Popowich was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia – a cancer of the bone marrow and blood – in mid-June.

Now that the future of the Arts and Heritage Foundation (AHF) has been decided for the next five years, the chair of its board is ready to get back to work.

The large sign on the street reads Morinville Public Elementary School. But above the school's front door is a reminder of the past – the faint letters identifying Georges P. Vanier elementary.