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Local driver set to tear up the track at Eurasia Cup

Local driver set to tear up the track at Eurasia Cup

What Mark Schwabenbauer loves about racing cars is the adrenalin rush of the back-and-forth battle on the track. “Being so evenly matched, that’s the fun part of racing,” he said.
Arts Days becomes Culture Days

Arts Days becomes Culture Days

There are 38 communities across the province, including St. Albert, that will be getting cash in advance of their celebrations in conjunction with the newly rebranded Alberta Culture Days.
Mayor's Walk chalks up $110K

Mayor's Walk chalks up $110K

What do 350 people and 34 non-profit organizations have in common? The answer is two-fold: the 12th annual Roy Financial Mayor’s Walk for Charity and $110,000.
Taking the nightmare out of moving

Taking the nightmare out of moving

Imagine this moving-day scenario: the baby is howling but you can’t find the diapers and worse still, the contents of his bottle and a broken bottle of spaghetti sauce just mixed together in a poorly-packed box and leaked all over the front sea
Rathgeber targets his own government

Rathgeber targets his own government

Local MP Brent Rathgeber vented about his own government’s extravagance and called for more fiscal discipline from cabinet ministers as the government asks Canadians and public servants to sacrifice.
Website aims to connect patients to family doctors

Website aims to connect patients to family doctors

Nine Edmonton-area primary care networks (PCN) joined forces earlier in the week to launch a new website that aims to simplify the process for residents seeking a family physician.
Province posts $23 million deficit in 2011

Province posts $23 million deficit in 2011

Better land sales, investment income and lower spending added up to a much lower deficit for Alberta last year, as the province finished the year with a scant $23 million deficit. Despite the lower deficit number, nearly $3.
More Alberta students making the grade

More Alberta students making the grade

More Alberta students are finishing high school and St. Albert students are beating the provincial average according to statistics released this week. The government released high school completion numbers that shows 74.
Bird numbers in decline across Canada, study finds

Bird numbers in decline across Canada, study finds

Canadian birds are becoming more rare than ever and it’ll be a hard struggle for us to keep them from vanishing altogether, according to a new study.
Healthy kids start in the kitchen

Healthy kids start in the kitchen

Want Timmy to eat his vegetables? You'll have better luck if you let him help chop them up, suggests a new study. University of Alberta researcher Yen Li Chu published a study last May in the online edition of Public Health Nutrition.
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