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City officials are expecting to get an earful from landowners and developers over the proposed changes to the city’s offsite levies.

A baby’s cries pierced the air Monday afternoon at the scene of a horrific crash that later claimed the life of the child’s young mother.

Fashion Has No Borders is out to dispel the flawless, almost plastic image of magazine and runway models —impossibly long legs, skeletal bodies and high cheekbones. “Real women are not a size two. The average woman is a size 12.

Local travellers are taking new security measures and baggage restrictions in stride, say travel insiders. A Christmas Day terrorist scare over Detroit has ushered in new security rules for all passengers destined for the United States.

One young man is dead and three other people were taken to hospital following a high-speed crash near Villeneuve yesterday afternoon. The crash occurred shortly after 3 p.m.

With more than 150 home break-ins in rural Alberta this past fall, the RCMP is asking for public help in both providing information and safeguarding homes.

It wasn’t the record-setting numbers seen last year, but many of the animals awaiting permanent homes at the Edmonton Humane Society have had their Christmas wishes fulfilled.

The availability of donated organs in Canada rose by more than one-quarter (28 per cent) over the past decade, but this increase is not keeping pace with demand.

More people left Alberta for other provinces in the third quarter of 2009 than came to the province from elsewhere in Canada, show figures from Statistics Canada.

An unauthorized health product found on the Canadian market contains a chemical with no therapeutic use that can cause serious health problems.