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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.

Liyan Zhang of Edmonton sits on Gull Lake at Parkland Beach Area, about 400 metres from the shore.

Holiday festivities are ripe with opportunities for fire, says the Alberta Emergency Management Agency.

Some seniors have been fortunate enough to meet up with angels on their sidewalks this month.

You set up appointments. You go to meetings. You go to the soup kitchen. You visit the library. You do anything that will get you into a warm building during the day when there’s nowhere else to go.