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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.

The Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership will wade into the ongoing debate over secular education in Morinville when it hosts a public forum next Thursday. The foundation is the legacy of former Alberta MLA Sheldon Chumir.

In our household, the Nintendo Wii has spent the majority of the last two years suffering from the Trampoline Effect — everyone wants one but once they have one, it’s soon abandoned, left to gather dust.

Children and youth are more likely to strap on a bicycle helmet today than they were before St. Albert made the safety gear mandatory for all ages, says a team of researchers.