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Frogs, seashells and worms may seem like an unlikely learning tool, but for Grade 3/4 teacher Sandra Wood at Morinville Public Elementary School, they are the cat’s meow.

Every school division handles the issue just a bit differently, but the bottom line is this: school fees are due now and unless there are extenuating, hardship circumstances, those that are not paid will be sent to a collection agency in the new year

A city resident has a beef with the city’s public works department and a word of caution for other homeowners.

Marina Hutton has been back from a six-week international seminar and research expedition in Southeast Asia for more than a month now. Talk to her, though, and it still seems like she has Vietnam and the Vietnamese people on the brain.

Morinville's town hall will reopen for one day only in order to welcome the Edmonton Garrison to town.

Grain specialist Chris Fralic spreads a lake of golden kernels across a drab beige mat with his calloused hands. He picks up a pair of tweezers and pours over them, in search of a needle in a haystack.

If you're struggling to lose belly fat — which is the most damaging type of fat to your health — then you'll have more success with aerobic exercise than with resistance training, according to a new study from researchers at Duke Universi

Alison Redford says her campaign for the Progressive Conservative leadership is about a significant change in the way the party, the government and the province do business.

With a new law to enforce, Alberta Sheriffs and RCMP were kept busy over the Labour Day long weekend. The province’s new distracted driving legislation came into effect on Sept.

Progressive Conservative leadership hopeful Alison Redford stopped by the Gazette offices on Thursday, Sept. 1, to answer a few questions about the race and her platform. Video by Glenn Cook