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Morinville town council will provide at least $107,000 at the Lakes district to build a playground, but an expert says that might not be enough to make the park happen.

The trip up the mountain earned one St. Albert agency a trip to the podium for a provincial award last week.

Morinville council is gearing up for a total overhaul of its grant policy, one that could lead to tighter rules on how it spends its money.

A Morinville councillor has called for the elimination of a controversial photo radar location following the release of the town’s traffic safety review – despite the fact that one of the highest speeds in town was clocked at that spot.

The Youth Community Centre is scrambling to find a new home after being evicted by its landlord last week. The youth centre will have to leave its longtime home of Grandin mall and has until July 31 to find a new space, states a news release sent out Wednesday.

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Governments around the world are responding with outrage about the revelations from National Security Agency traitor Edward Snowden. Snowden was an outside contractor to the NSA, one of the most secretive American intelligence agencies.

An Edmonton man who robbed a local pharmacy twice in the span of just eight days, has been granted statutory release. Mohamed Ismail Arafa robbed the Tudor Glen Market Pharmacy twice over the winter holidays between December 2007 and January 2008.

Red and white were the colours of the day Monday, and it wasn't just sunburned bodies. An estimated 6,000 to 7,000 people showed up at St. Albert's Lions Park to celebrate Canada's 146th birthday. Festivities kicked off with a 9 a.m. pancake breakfast hosted by the Heritage Lakes Community Association and wound down with fireworks illuminating the night sky at 11 p.m.

The Kusam Klimb. "Are you tough enough?" asks the website. Of course. It's only 21 kilometres. Sure it starts at sea level and grinds its way up to 1,482 metres in a breath-sucking 7.7 kilometres. But I am tough enough.