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The city is warning residents to avoid the ice around rivers, lakes and ponds after Tuesday’s unseasonably warm weather forced the closure of St. Albert’s outdoor rinks.

Cold out there, isn't it? It's winter in St. Albert, which means ice, snow and temperatures in the minus 20s. It also means a lot of bellyaching about how darn cold it is outside.

Commuters will get up close and personal with Idle No More today as a group of demonstrators blocks traffic on St. Albert Trail. Local Idle No More organizer Mary Wadham said she's organizing a round dance and smudge ceremony at 4 p.m. Wednesday Jan. 16 on St. Albert Trail where it meets Sturgeon Road.

It’s not just adults who seek inspiration from others when losing weight. The kids need it too.

With this week’s release of the next Devil May Cry game, I am reminded of the tears shed in trying to squeeze achievements out of the last DMC game. It was, in a word: painful.

A 22-year-old Morinville man faces a second-degree murder charge for allegedly killing an outreach worker in Whitecourt.

Members of the St. Albert Progressive Conservative Association were schooled on the province’s fiscal future during the association’s annual general meeting Saturday.

In Hamlet we learned that rosemary is for remembrance, and pansies, well, they’re for thoughts. Floriography – or the language of flowers – is apparently still practised in the world despite its roots in the Victorian era.

One St. Albert councillor believes St. Albert’s changes to the business bylaw targeting head shops were doomed to fail because they were too restrictive, and she doesn’t believe the city should appeal the court decision overturning them.

There they were, Father Albert Lacombe and Bishop Alexandre-Antonin Taché, standing on a hill overlooking a lustrous, snow-covered river valley in the middle of winter. It was Jan. 14, 1861.