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A last-minute burst of good will has given a big boost to groups that make their major fundraising drives during the holiday season.

A Manitoba judge has given a break to a medical marijuana crusader found guilty of trafficking pot to numerous clients across Canada.

Senior Citizens Downtown House closed on Dec. 22. Phone 403-346-4043.

Taking a breathlyzer and sleeping in a cell is no way to celebrate the holidays. Traffic police throughout the province are tightening the net on impaired drivers through an enhanced Check Stop program.

For anyone who has grown up in Canada walking on ice is second nature. It entails shuffling rather than strutting and keeping both feet close to the ground.

Carlos Casado takes another box of peanut butter from Santa as firemedics form a bucket brigade to load a truck outside the Parkland Mall Safeway Thursday.

Large chunks of ice, a storey in height, were transformed into a stylized eagle, a polar bear, a buffalo and other images in a unique fundraiser held in Red Deer this past weekend.

Freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout continues to recover after a 15-month ordeal in Somalia, where she was kidnapped, tortured and kept alone in a dark room.

Jordan Buba of Lewis Farms from Spruce Grove dries a newly washed cow during preparations for the Checkers Cattle Sale in Westerner Park’s Agricentre. The 15th annual sale featured 60 lots of black and red Simmentals vying for show honours before today’s sale.

Clearwater County plans to boost disaster training and make communications improvements in line with the recommendations of a report on the response to a severe windstorm that ripped through Nordegg in August.