Local News

Ashley Paradis says she thought a food-bank life would be easy at first. She and five other Grade 9 students at W.D. Cuts challenged themselves this week to live exclusively off food from a food bank for seven days.

A water line break at a seniors property under construction loosed a torrent of chlorinated water Tuesday morning, most of which reached the Sturgeon River system.

Six St. Albert teens reported being robbed at gunpoint early Tuesday morning and the RCMP are looking for help identifying the three teens responsible. One of the six teens was taking his friends home very early Tuesday morning, around 5:15 a.m.

Canada's new integrated oilsands monitoring program is a great start, says a local scientist, but it needs to be freed from government interference if it's going to work.

Local scientists had their sleuthing hats on this week after hundreds of silvery fish turned up dead in the Sturgeon River.

The city will do the engineering work to find a temporary solution to allow access to Lois Hole Centennial Provincial Park through the often-flooded walkway underneath the Ray Gibbon Drive bridge, but it will be up to a local community group to build

Despite reservations from some councillors about the lack of direct input, city council unanimously approved in its entirety the final report from the council remuneration review committee (CRRC) Monday night.

Children with burn injuries covering 60 per cent or more of their total body surface area (TBSA) are at a much higher risk of experiencing severe complications or death, according to a study published online by The Lancet.

Two of the city's highly anticipated master plans are now in the hands of council for review and will be debated within the next two months with an eye towards approval.

Westlock County councillor Maureen Kubinec secured the Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock Progressive Conservative nomination Saturday night, taking the reins from retiring MLA Ken Kowalski.