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Local potato and tomato gardeners are keeping a close eye on their crops this week for signs of late blight — the disease behind the Irish Potato Famine. The St.

It’s an iconic image: one young man on a rain-slicked highway, escorted front and back by police cars. The curly-haired runner has on a white t-shirt, grey gym shorts and his running shoes.

A Morinville woman has become the first new candidate to announce plans to seek a spot on town council. Lisa Holmes announced her candidacy last week, becoming the first new face to declare for the upcoming election.

My name is Charm and I am a beautiful, petite orange and white, two-year-old female cat. I was found in a garbage bin at a construction site in Leduc with my four newborn kittens in mid-July.

The combines are ready and the crops are ripe for harvest, say local farmers — now, if only it would stop raining … Sturgeon County farmers are gearing up for this year's harvest.

Local developer Larry Andrews has taken over the stalled Tenor condominium project on Sturgeon Road and plans to complete it by next spring. Andrews, whose corporate holdings include Landrex Developments Inc.

Several hundred people gathered at Seven Hills on Saturday to cheer on St. Albert son and Olympic hero Jarome Iginla. The City of St.

Civic buildings, arenas, trails and even storm ponds could be renamed under a city policy approved this week. The new naming policy sets out standards for naming or renaming an existing civic building in honour of a prominent member of the community.

A new Lutheran elementary school opened its doors for its first day of classes Wednesday morning after a year of struggling to get established. Located at the King of Kings Lutheran Church at St.

Officials and students at Muriel Martin Elementary School celebrated the opening of a memorial this week for a former principal who died a year ago.