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Alberta parents, teachers protest potential education cuts
Parents, teachers, students and their allies marched to MLA offices in Spruce Grove and Stony Plain Saturday to protest potential cuts to education funding next year.
Homeowners seek protection against shoddy builders
A group of frustrated Stony Plain homeowners is pressing the Stelmach government to better protect new home buyers and to ensure building codes are strictly enforced.
Lots of reasons for transit to airport
Fella is taking his lady friend out for a long hike in the woods. They get lost.
Bright Side: Track and field excavation cheaper than dirt
Muir Lake Community School students and staff surround Alvin Spray, vice-president of Prairie North Construction.
Don't delay LRT route decision
Some argue that a new LRT route along stony Plain road from the downtown to the west end would be too disruptive.
Concert raising funds for Ecuador's kids
Mark Ivancic uses his guitar to teach, but it also comes in handy for self-defence, too.
Officer cadet Jesse Melnyck is low key about his place in military history. In an emotional ceremony in Ottawa last week, the Stony Plain-raised soldier was among the inaugural group of 46 Canadians to receive the Sacrifice Medal.
The LRT at the new McKernan and South Campus LRT stations. Photograph by: Ed Kaiser, Edmonton Journal EDMONTON a ' Edmontona TMs city council has postponed debate on a controversial expansion of the LRT system after some councillors expressed concern about building the west-end route along Stony Plain Road.
Contestants for Miss Rodeo Canada during a fashion show at City Center Mall in Edmonton, Alberta on November 10, 2009.
Ex-teacher gets prison term for sex, porn charges
Brian Nickel, 45, pleaded guilty this summer to sexual interference, making child pornography, and two counts of possession of child pornography.
LRT expansion hearing draws critics, boosters
Public hearings for the controversial expansion of the city's LRT system drew dozens of Edmontonians to city hall Monday, the majority lobbying against the proposed plans.
Cowgirls not afraid to get a little dirt on their sashes
Rae-Leigh Pederzolli is more than just a pretty face. The Miss Rodeo Canada hopeful from Medicine Hat started riding bulls at age 15, has skydived and is into trick riding.
Holger Petersen credits CkUa with putting him on the path to his life's passion--being an ambassador for the blues.
Sentence delayed in voyeur teacher case
Brian Nickel, 45, pleaded guilty this summer to sexual interference, making child pornography, and two counts of possession of child pornography.
Motorcyclist hurt in high-speed crash
A motorcyclist is clinging to life after crashing his allegedly speeding bike. A Mountie on patrol allegedly clocked the rider speeding north on Highway 60 just before 12:30 p.m. yesterday, said Stony Plain RCMP Staff Sgt.
What started as a hobby interest in traditional big-timber construction has vaulted Mira Timber Frame into a computerized manufacturing plant that soon expects to produce 300 homes a year.
Fred Lindsay, Alberta solicitor general and MLA for Stony Plain, made an announcement last week that received little attention.
Fort Saskatchewan will help pay for regional transit expansion and operation both within Fort Saskatchewan and in places like Edmonton or Stony Plain, according to a cost-sharing model the Capital Region Board is expected to vote on in a week.
Anyone thinking of fall cleanup is way ahead of themselves because this is the time for garden planting - or at least planning to plant.
10 Things About Canada I Didn't Know
In addition to learning that federal Minister of State Diane Ablonczy can't deliver a speech to save her life, I picked up a ton of tidbits at a recent conference sponsored by the Canadian Tourism Commission.