St. Albert news

• Stolen vehicle crashes into truck on Yellowhead Trail

  10-09-2017 23:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  The driver of what police are saying is a stolen vehicle faces possible impaired driving charges after a collision on Yellowhead Trail Friday night.
  Strathcona County RCMP officers were following a possible impaired driver westbound on Highway 16. Mounties caught up to the vehicle near 17 Street. When they tried to pull the vehicle over, the suspect took off at a high rate of speed.
  RCMP did not follow the vehicle due to a risk to the public.
  The vehicle later crashed into a Ford truck at Victor
  
  Read more

• Terry Jones: Successful sports night in Edmonton with Eskimos and UFC

  10-09-2017 22:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  It was a night when a combined count of 50,544 fans produced a live gate of just under $4 million.
  And when it was complete, there was enough controversy to contend with to last until the next UFC numbered pay per view event in Rogers Place or the next Calgary Stampeders-Edmonton Eskimos Labour Day Rematch.
  Let’s just hope they won’t end up scheduled against each other at the same time again.
  Let’s start there.
  “UFC 215 cost us 4,000 to 5,000 fans between the live event a
  
  Read more

• The competitive battlefield at Edmonton Oilers Training Camp: 9 Things

  10-09-2017 22:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Oilers main camp is just around the corner. Rosters are all but complete. We have a healthy amount of information and intelligence on all of these players, as well as the organization’s view of them. Projecting how Todd McLellan will deploy his troops, as a result, becomes way less of a guessing game, now. We can see lines drawn in the sand, and battlegrounds forming as the sun begins to rise on the 2017-18 Oilers training camp.
  So, then, here are my projected battles, to be fough
  
  Read more

• Fatal Edmonton police shooting sparked by attempt to arrest suspect

  10-09-2017 21:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police were attempting to arrest a suspect on outstanding warrants Saturday night when officers opened fire, leaving a man dead.
  In a statement Sunday morning, police said officers tried to arrest the suspect near Westmount Mall, but he rammed a police cruiser with his vehicle attempting to flee the scene.
  “A confrontation then occurred between the male suspect and officers, and the officers subsequently discharged their service weapons,” the statement reads.
  The 29-year-old
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• University of Alberta's satellite armed and ready to observe

  10-09-2017 20:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  Space is battling a major geomagnetic storm this weekend, and the University of Alberta’s Ex-Alta 1 Satellite is armed and ready to observe.
  The most significant solar flare in 12 years erupted from the sun on Sept. 6, which will cause huge explosions of magnetic fields and plasma speeding towards Earth in the coming days.   
  It’s exactly the sort of event the Ex-Alta 1 was built for. The milk carton-sized cube satellite was&
  
  Read more

• MacEwan to host conference on Islam and LGBTQ Muslims

  10-09-2017 20:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Junaid Jahangir has been trying to improve the understanding of LGBTQ issues in Edmonton’s Muslim community for years, but he said it’s more important now than ever.
  That’s why he’s organizing Edmonton’s first conference about Islam and LGBTQ Muslims. It is set to take place from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1. The conference is supported by MacEwan University, where Jahangir is an assistant professor.
  With anti-Muslim and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric on the rise in recent years, he sai
  
  Read more

• Alcohol believed to be a factor in fatal hit-and-run in north Edmonton

  10-09-2017 19:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police are piecing together the details after a hit-and-run collision lead to the death of a 30-year-old man in north Edmonton.
  At around 3:45 p.m. Saturday afternoon police were notified a male suspect driving a silver Ford Freestar minivan in an alley between 97 Street and 101 Street had allegedly struck a blue Dodge Ram 1500 travelling eastbound along 116 Avenue, police said in a Sunday morning press release.
  Police said the driver of the minivan fled the scene with the 56-year-old driver of
  
  Read more

• Transit talk with St. Albert revives Blatchford bridge proposal: Coun. Loken - Globalnews.ca

  10-09-2017 16:02
  Globalnews.ca
  Transit talk with St. Albert revives Blatchford bridge proposal: Coun. Loken
  Globalnews.ca
  The Kingsway/RAH LRT Station as trains on the Metro LRT Line start running at full speed on Feb. 19, 2017. Nathan Gross, Global News. What is this? Sponsored content is written by Global News' editorial staff without any editorial influence by the sponsor.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Transit talk with St. Albert revives Blatchford bridge proposal: Coun. Loken

  10-09-2017 16:00 via globalnews.ca
  Remember that idea councillors Loken and Esslinger had to build a bus bridge from Blatchford? This week's agreement with St. Albert is breathing new life into it.
  
  Read more

• Historic 143-year-old Garneau's tree to be removed for safety reasons

  10-09-2017 16:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A tree to be removed on the University of Alberta campus has received a fair bit of attention because of its historical significance and its 143 year lifespan — about three times the normal expectancy.
  The tree, known as Garneau’s Tree, is a Manitoba maple planted in the 1870s by early Edmonton settlers Laurent and Eleanor Garneau behind their home. 
  Laurent Garneau was one of Louis Riel’s soldiers during the Red River Rebellion and was a prominent figure in the Alberta M&
  
  Read more

• The key to Edmonton Oilers winning this year? "An even keel" Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli stresses

  10-09-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Chiarelli on the playoffs: “It’s just about keeping an even keel.”
  In retrospect, and if we’re completely honest about how the Edmonton Oilers lost in the playoffs, the team looked like it was running on flat tires for much of Game 7 against the Anaheim Ducks, leading to a 2-1 Ducks victory.
  The Oilers had their chances to win that game. It was certainly no Ducks blow-out. But after taking an early 1-0 lead in the first, Anaheim took over the game. Anaheim outchanced Edmo
  
  Read more

• Edmonton Oilers Young Stars start, finish strong in 3-0 win versus Jets rookies

  10-09-2017 08:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers rookies continue to dominate the Young Stars tournament format, with yet another victory Saturday night in Penticton, 3-0 over Winnipeg.
  The Oilers came out fast and physical in the early going, before riding  the stellar play of goaltender Stuart Skinner through a firm Jets push-back that began half-way through the opening frame, until the mid-point of the 2nd. But the Oilers rookies left little doubt over the last 30 minutes who was the better team on the night, includ
  
  Read more

• One dead at Westmount after what witnesses describe as gunfight with police

  10-09-2017 07:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  At least one person is dead following an apparent gunfight with police.
  A body lay beneath a white tarp in the parking lot of McDonalds and a massive police presence swarmed the Westmount Shopping Centre on Saturday evening.
  A silver Mercedes was boxed in by unmarked police units.
  Witnesses said they heard loud bangs.
  Jacob Rothenburger was having a coffee in his car, checking his phone to hear from a friend when he heard three massive bangs that “reverberated.”
  When he looked up, he
  
  Read more

• Oilers rookies beat Jets counterparts at Young Stars tourney

  10-09-2017 07:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  PENTICTON, B.C. — When Edmonton Oilers farm team coach Gerry Fleming was asked if he trots out different pep talks for his juggernaut kids from year to year at the Young Stars prospect tournament, he guffawed.
  “No, I just tell the dancers to dance and the other ones to do what they do best,” he said.
  In this tournament against the Calgary Flames, the Winnipeg Jets and the Vancouver Canucks, Stuart Skinner tossed a shutout in his first pro action and Chad Butcher, the choicest c
  
  Read more

• Fans still get fireworks at UFC 215

  10-09-2017 06:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  The show must go on, and a sold out Rogers Arena was glad it did Saturday at UFC 215.
  Despite a troubled lead up in which two of the three main fights were cancelled, fight fans in Edmonton still showed up in full force to take in the spectacle of an 11-fight card that didn’t disappoint.
  The star power wasn’t the same after Demetrious Johnson-Ray Borg got scrapped Thursday night because of an illness to Borg and the heavyweight showdown between Francis Ngannou-Junior Dos Santos got w
  
  Read more

• Terry Jones: Eskimos lose the game but turn corner

  10-09-2017 06:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Derel Walker is back. But are the Edmonton Eskimos?
  It coulda, woulda, shoulda been storybook.
  Instead it was another snatched-from-the-jaws-of-victory Labour Day Rematch loss by the Eskimos following a Labour Day drubbing in Calgary.
  Last year the Eskimos rebounded from the Labour Day defeat to take the Stampeders to overtime where they lost the game.
  This year, despite heroics and histrionics, Chris Milo missed a 47-yard field goal on the last play of regulation and the Eskimos didn’t ma
  
  Read more

• Edmonton Eskimos pass rusher's batteries recharged for rematch

  10-09-2017 05:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  While practice might make perfect, resting from practice between the Labour Day series games made for a better Odell Willis.
  That was the idea, anyway, behind Edmonton Eskimos head coach Jason Maas’s decision to sit his defensive captain in the days leading up to Saturday’s rematch at Commonwealth Stadium.
  “Probably in his eyes, he didn’t need any time off,” Maas said. “But to give him a day as a vet is a big deal to make him feel better.
  “If his legs fe
  
  Read more

• UFC 215 Notebook: Bhullar blazing a trail

  10-09-2017 04:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Heavyweight Arjan Singh Bhullar brought his own cheering section to Edmonton for UFC 215 … not that he needed to.
  When you’ve got over one billion people in your corner, the love is never very far away.
  And the 31-year-old from Vancouver soaked it all in in his UFC debut Saturday as he scored a unanimous decision victory over Luis Henrique.
  The first fighter of Indian descent to fight in the UFC knew he had a chance to make statement on the biggest stage in MMA and when he did, he d
  
  Read more

• Fight fans flock to Rogers Place for UFC 215

  10-09-2017 03:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Main event or no main event, Blair Gunter and Louise Fornal weren’t going to miss this.
  Saturday night’s UFC 215 PPV event from Rogers Place in downtown Edmonton was the third UFC event for the husband and wife from Prince Albert, SK.
  Despite the event losing its top attraction after the main event between UFC featherwight champion Demetrious ‘Mighty Mouse’ Johnson and challenger Roy Borg was cancelled due to Borg declaring an illness just days before the fight, the coupl
  
  Read more

• Parkallen community answers vandalism with art, unveiling new mural

  10-09-2017 02:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  What once served as a blank canvas inviting vandalism now expresses the pride of Parkallen, as a mural designed by members of the community was unveiled at the skating rink at Ellingson Park in Edmonton on Saturday.
  “It turned something we were really struggling to prevent in the community into a positive opportunity. Now we have a colourful piece of community-generated art,” said Jan Hardstaff, who sits on the civics committee of the Parkallen Community League and helped organize th
  
  Read more

• Serious crash investigation crosses from Strathcona County to Edmonton

  10-09-2017 02:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  The driver of what police are saying is a stolen vehicle faces possible impaired driving charges after a collision on the Yellowhead on Friday night.
  Strathcona County RCMP officers were following a possible impaired driver westbound on Highway 16. Mounties caught up to the vehicle near 17 street and while they tried to pull the vehicle over, the suspect took off at a high rate of speed.
  RCMP did not follow the vehicle due to a risk to the public.
  While fleeing the truck stop, the driver crashed
  
  Read more

• Ziyat Paigin is not far away from being an NHLer

  10-09-2017 01:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  PENTICTON – Ziyat Paigin answers to Z, but he’s not the real Z.
  “I am Ziyat Paigin, not Zdeno Chara,” recoiled the 22-year-old, six-foot-six, 210-pound defenceman, who grew up in Russia with Oilers winger Anton Slepyshev and looks like a steal after being the third-last name called at the 2015 NHL Draft in south Florida, No. 209.
  Paigin is an engaging, smiling antithesis of another large Russian defenceman Nikita Tryamkin, who played with the Vancouver Canucks for parts o
  
  Read more

• Gerry Fleming's summer home will take Hurricane beating

  10-09-2017 01:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  PENTICTON – Edmonton Oilers farm coach Gerry Fleming has been watching CNN’s Hurricane Irma wall-to-wall TV coverage much more closely than others.
  He lives in Estero, in between Fort Myers and Naples. That’s home of the 7,200-seat Germain Arena, where the Florida Everblades of the ECHL play, where scores of evacuees are huddled in the storm-shelter.
  His wife and daughter are safe up in Ottawa, but Fleming expects his summer place to be wiped out in the violent storm when it sm
  
  Read more

Follow @StAlbertNews on Twitter!