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Debbie Raymond said that it was all just a really good idea backed up by a really good friend and a whole lot of people.

Four-year-old Sam likes basketball. He likes playing with his toy train. He likes to run and swim. Sometimes he doesn’t listen well to his mom. None of this is particularly remarkable, and that’s exactly the point.

Brittany Badrock grew up thinking nobody cared about her mother’s missing cousin because she was a Cree. The young woman, 20, just vanished one day. Police expected she ran away. They did not bother looking for her, says Badrock.

St. Albert taxpayers could benefit from a budgeted education property tax rate reduction.

City council got a look at a proposed $228.4-million plan to maintain, repair or replace municipal capital assets for the next 10 years. Council’s standing committee on finance was presented with two 10-year capital plans on Monday.

A cold wind howls over the dead grass here at the Edmonton Garrison's firing range Wednesday. Sgt.

There was a quote attached to Insp. Kevin Murray’s recent email to the detachment. It came as no surprise. The man in charge of the St. Albert RCMP is known for leaving inspirational citations on the detachment’s whiteboard every morning.

The Edmonton region has worse air than Toronto, suggests a recent study, but local air quality scientists say coal power might not be entirely to blame. The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) released an analysis this week that showed how air pollution in terms of fine particulate matter was significantly worse in Edmonton than it was in Toronto despite having a fifth of its population.

City residents will get to party for the planet next week as the 25th annual Earth Day returns to the Edmonton region. April 22 is Earth Day, the international day that celebrates the environment and its protection. At least four St.

For St. Albert residents on the hunt for new reading material, the quest will get a lot easier this summer.