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It is all over but the voting and the counting. A nine-month campaign for the Progressive Conservative leadership will end today, with the party electing both a new leader and the province’s next premier. Polling locations will be open in St.

Alison Redford won the race for the Progressive Conservative leadership and will be the next premier of Alberta. Redford's campaign was a call for change in the party and in government and she promised action in her victory speech.

Climate change could cost Canadians billions a year within a decade unless they take steps to adapt, says a new report.

No need to haul your paint and batteries into Edmonton, citizens; St. Albert now has a hazardous waste depot of its own.

Brigitte Strand hopes to combine her love of music with her new venture as owner of Art Beat Gallery. Strand, who takes ownership of the gallery Saturday, studied choral music in her native Costa Rica.

Morinville RCMP have located a 76-year-old man who was reported missing from a Legal seniors home on Wednesday morning.

The McCann family is making a plea to hunters and outdoorsmen to help find their missing parents. The family announced Friday they will be passing out flyers with information about Lyle and Marie McCann, who went missing in July 2010.

Some of Canada’s newest citizens arrived from Edmonton by bus Thursday at Neil M. Ross Catholic School. Some came at 11 a.m. so they wouldn’t miss citizenship court, which was scheduled for 2 p.m.

Is that rock alive? If you're on another planet, new research suggests the answer could be yes.

If you love Scrabble, it doesn’t get any better than laying down a triple word score and using up all of your letters to do it — unless you’re helping out a worthy cause at the same time.