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The success of a five-minute check that can be administered to one-year-olds to detect subtle signs of autism is leading to hopes it can someday become part of a routine checkup.

The new Education Act will be tabled for further review and tweaking, but on Wednesday Minister of Education Dave Hancock put it out for all to see.

Burundi is a small landlocked country that probably wouldn’t get any kind of attention if it weren’t for the fact that it is one of the 10 poorest nations in the world, one that’s suffered from devastating civil unrest and genocide

Voters have it easy on election day compared to Bill Wright. As a returning officer, he and his team will have to count about 94,000 ballots from 235 locations in the space of a few hours. And he'll probably love every minute.

For the second year in a row, the St. Valentine’s Day Hair Massacure has succeeded in raising more than $1 million.

The province’s Community Spirit Program will pump out $14.9 million to a host of non-profit and volunteer organizations this year, including 23 in St. Albert.

A local energy group plans to build three special greenhouses this year that will be powered by little more than the sun.

Premier Ed Stelmach wants to see his province cared for in the wake of an upcoming general federal election.

City staffers are stockpiling sandbags along the Sturgeon this week as the river floods to new heights.

The municipal portion of your property tax bill has nudged upward slightly after council added $1 million in spending to the 2011 budget in the 11th hour.