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Canadians are lazier than Americans and aren’t getting the exercise they need, according to a new study. But a St. Albert man has a simple solution: get a bike.

An Okotoks man arrested for making ecstacy will serve nine months of house arrest for the crime. Jake Bailey, AGE??) was given a nine-month conditional sentence in Edmonton court on Jan. 26. Bailey was arrested at a west Edmonton hotel on Oct.

A Calgary woman was given a lengthy jail sentence last week for killing one man and seriously injuring two others in a collision after driving the wrong way on Highway 2. In Okotoks Provincial Court on Jan. 26 Court Judge P.

Mediation over the Wind Walk Development between the Town of Okotoks and Foothills MD broke down and the two will take their dispute over the plan to the provincial government.

More than 50 community members turned out for the first of four public forums to provide feedback on potential future of land use in the Southern Alberta Foothills. At the Flare ‘n’ Derrick Community Hall in Turner Valley on Jan.

Okotoks-based Karnalyte Resources raised about $60 million in its first forays into the stock market last week.

Calgarian Jill Lennox, creator of the Stuffitbag padded laptop computer case, confessed the idea for the product came from personal necessity.

Three family doctors will be opening practices at a new medical centre in High River as part of a new model designed to pair every resident with a primary care provider.

Cholera, frequent power outages and 16 to 20-hour workdays await a group of medical professionals from Oilfields Hospital in Black Diamond who are heading to earthquake ravaged Haiti next month.

Thefts from vehicles are becoming an epidemic in town and Okotoks RCMP are looking at all options to get a handle on the problem.