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A proposed Sturgeon Valley subdivision will be great for the Peas On Earth farm, says its owner, despite the fact that it will essentially be built on top of it.

The city has put on hold any further drilling work connected to the future expansion of Ray Gibbon Drive until staff can figure out how to handle a gas pocket discovered last week.

Six years ago, Hurricane Katrina landed on New Orleans' doorstep and the city is still cleaning up the mess. The category 5 windstorm destroyed homes and disrupted many lives, killing more than 1,800 people.

The spring thaw is continuing to spill across Sturgeon County roads, leading to more closures. Highway 825, which had been blocked for several days last week, opened to traffic on Thursday, along with several other county roads that were flooded.

When the Helping Canadian Kids Thrive conference comes to Regina next weekend, there will be a small but significant contingent of representatives from St. Albert in attendance.

While some Morinville parents are putting “for sale” signs up on their homes due to the lack of a secular education option, Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools is still working on the problem.

Hello! I’m Ruby and I’m a lovely young dilute torti with white fur. I'm a spayed female cat, around 10 to 12 months old.

The cover of Vegetable Gardening for Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba is a pastoral cornucopia of produce featuring a large round basket mounded with crisp red peppers, crunchy cucumbers, prickly asparagus, scented onions and large squash.

With no viable option for secular public education for their children and grandchildren, one Morinville family is picking up and moving en masse to Edmonton. Up until recently they were pushing to have something in place in the town for September.

Nancy Watt is just happy to make music and help others to do the same. She’s not in it for the awards but sometimes praise comes your way when you least expect it.