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Morinville has a lot of history, if you know where to find it. Take the yellow-sided home on the corner of 100 Street and 99 Avenue, for example.

Wood Buffalo will remain the only municipality to date to ban the use of plastic shopping bags after St. Albert city council voted to take no action locally.

Members of the National Panel on First Nations Elementary and Secondary Education received a warm welcome at Alexander Reserve's Kipotakaw School Tuesday, but they also heard messages of frustration and anger.

It has been almost one year since the city voted to hire a corporate marketing manager to aggressively pursue businesses to set up shop in St. Albert and council still hasn’t clarified its vision for the position.

A St. Albert woman’s bid to have the Alberta government pay her legal costs at a fatality inquiry that is looking into the death of her daughter has been denied.

A collision between a gravel truck and a small car on Highway 37 was fatal to the car’s driver. Morinville RCMP were called out to the accident scene on Highway 37 near Starkey Road about 6 a.m. Tuesday.

Morinville residents were in mourning this week after a suicide bomber attacked and killed one of their own in Afghanistan. Master Cpl. Byron Garth Greff of the 3rd Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry died at about 11:30 a.m.

An outbreak of an antibiotic-resistant bacteria at the Sturgeon Hospital has forced the closure of one of the facility’s surgical wards.

Sturgeon County residents could see construction of the massive new Heartland Transmission Project as early as this winter, says a company official.

The education funding promised last month by Premier Alison Redford and Education Minister Thomas Lukaszuk will soon be in the bank, but school boards are really playing catch up with the cash they will receive.