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Natural disasters don't take holidays and neither does Aisling Pollard-Kientzel.

Canadians could prevent thousands of cancer deaths if they took a simple test involving poop and a stick, says an awareness group. The Canadian Cancer Society released its annual report on cancer last Wednesday.

The site of Curtis Dale riding around his neighbourhood cul-de-sac on a skateboard is not out of the ordinary, but the board under his feet is something new.

The Alberta Competitiveness council announced 18 moves this week it hopes will keep the provincial economy humming and bring more investment and jobs to the province.

The high-tech focus of St. Albert business parks could be cast aside in favour of restaurants, warehouses and veterinary clinics under changes proposed by St. Albert’s economic development advisory committee (SAEDAC.

Pledging to bring his experience to build a competitive Alberta Liberal Party, Edmonton MLA Hugh MacDonald announced his plan to run for the party leadership this week.

React with your heart but act with your head. That’s the message of warning offered by the provincial government to citizens who feel compelled to help the displaced residents of Slave Lake.

And so ends the long winter of our discontent, tree-lovers — the forest has returned to Boudreau Road. City crews took the axe to about 58 large poplar trees along Boudreau this winter.

The St. Albert Public Library is boycotting e-books published by industry giant HarperCollins to protest a lending limit the company imposed in March.

Using a political scandal of the not-too-distant past for inspiration, a Morinville man brought cookies to the provincial legislature to denounce what he called inaction on the town's ongoing secular school issue.