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The details of what Ottawa did to help secure the release of freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout continue to be cloaked in secrecy.

Banners haven’t yet been put up to welcome her home, but many in Sylvan Lake are letting out a sigh of relief after hearing the news this week that freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout has been freed.

Inside a hotel in one of the most dangerous cities in the world, Robert Draper met a young Central Alberta woman eager to tell the stories of Somalis uprooted by violence.

WINNIPEG — Have no fear Melonheads — Canada Safeway is rushing hundreds of watermelons to Calgary from California for Saskatchewan Roughrider fans to carve and wear to this weekend’s Grey Cup.

Hours after Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout was kidnapped by armed gunmen along a crumbling road in war-torn southern Somalia, a local reporter set out to track her down. Ahmed Mohamed says he was approached by a former colleague of Lindhout’s.

This colour photograph by Red Deer photographer Hedley Blake titled Frigid Winter is one of several art pieces hanging in the Kiwanis Gallery at the downtown branch of the Red Deer Public Library.

Freed after 15 tortuous months in captivity in Somalia, Canadian freelancer Amanda Lindhout and another foreign journalist arrived Thursday in neighbouring Kenya amid claims that a $700,000 ransom was paid for their release.

Alberta authors Robin and Marian White will hold a book-signing of their award-winning environmental coffee table book, Wild Alberta at the Crossroads.

Bob Diewold gets his soup spiced up a little by L. J. MacDonald at a United Way Soup Benefit Luncheon that ran at the Hub on Ross on Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

There have been 24 confirmed cases of a type of severe allergic reaction called anaphylaxis in Canadians who have received an H1N1 flu shot, including one person who died after getting vaccinated, the head of the Public Health Agency of Canada said Wednesday.