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Justin Arcand sees money to be made in Alexander.

Joe Kootenay sits astride a tall horse as he watches the cows come home. As a cold rain pours down onto his black Stetson, hundreds of brown and white calves scurry out of the wooden chute before him and into a wire-fenced pen.

The next car you buy could be made of hemp, thanks to a new $15 million research facility in Alberta.

St. Albert RCMP officers were called out to a Grandin home Monday night after a verbal argument apparently led to bloodshed. Officers apprehended a suspect at the scene and charges against the 23-year-old male are now pending. Const.

Some 10,000 expectant mothers are needed for a study that will examine how diet before and after pregnancy affects a baby’s development and overall health.

Sales have been slow so far but there’s been keen interest in Alberta’s new lobbyist registry since the website went live on Monday, said registrar Brad Odsen.

Two people were killed and four others were injured in a horrific head-on collision Sunday night east of Morinville. The crash took place on Highway 28 around 5 p.m. between Cardiff Road and secondary highway 642.

You never really notice air quality until you're gasping for breath. I noticed it right away when I went to China, for example. It was hard to miss the impenetrable haze that shrouded buildings, filled my mouth with cotton and nose with mucous.

In an isolated field on the southern edge of the Edmonton Garrison, among prairie grasses and poplar trees stands a lone monument to a family long since passed.

I am happily planning what has become the busiest day at St. Albert Botanic Park.