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• PHOTOS: Interstellar Rodeo 2018 Edmonton

  22-07-2018 23:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Festival goers of all ages braved the intermittent rain showers to enjoy the music and festive atmosphere at the 2018 Edmonton Interstellar Rodeo at the Hawrelak Park Amphitheatre on Sunday July 22, 2018.
  With her explosive mix of hip hop, cumbia, dancehall and reggae, the Cuban singer, flautist and percussionist Yaite Ramos Rodriguez, aka La Dame Blanche, delivered a powerful and compelling performance at the 2018 Edmonton Interstellar Rodeo in the Hawrelak Park Amphitheatre on Sunday July 22,
  
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• Camrose police chief, mayor outline the role of a small town force

  22-07-2018 20:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  Camrose Police Service has been in operation since the 1960s and over that time it has grown and evolved into a 31-members service for the nearly 20,000 residents of the city located about an hour south of Edmonton.
  
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• 'It was just horrible': Motorcyclist killed in crash near Wayne Gretzky Drive

  22-07-2018 18:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  A male motorcyclist is dead and his female passenger is fighting for her life after a collision at 75 Street and 101 Avenue early Sunday.
  Debris littered the intersection as investigators worked to learn what happened. The car, which police believe was southbound turning east onto 101 Avenue, was flipped around pointing west. The rear passenger side tire had been torn away. A blue and grey helmet lay about 100 feet from the motorcycle a couple hours after the crash.
  The motorcyclist and passenge
  
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• PHOTOS: Wild Rides at K-Days Rodeo

  22-07-2018 18:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Cowboys and cowgirls compete at the the annual K-Days Rodeo, held at the Edmonton Expo Center on Saturday July 21, 2018. The K-Days rodeo is the largest Canadian Professional Rodeo Association’s sanctioned regular season rodeo in Canada, the seventh largest Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association sanctioned rodeo in the world and the eighth largest pro-rodeo in the world. The three-day event concludes Sunday July 22, 2018. (PHOTOS BY LARRY WONG/POSTMEDIA)
  Wyatt Maines from Maple Creek, Sask
  
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• Motorcyclist killed in crash near Wayne Gretzky Drive

  22-07-2018 17:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  A male motorcyclist is dead and his female passenger is fighting for her life after a collision at 75 Street and 101 Avenue.
  The crash happened at around 7 a.m. Sunday morning.
  Police are still investigating what happened, but believe a Mercury Marquis southbound on Wayne Gretzky Drive hit the northbound motorcyclist while turning eastbound onto 101 Avenue.
  The motorcyclist and passenger were taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries. The male, whose age was not immediately available, die
  
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• Edmonton weather: There's no thunder in the forecast for the first time in days

  22-07-2018 17:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  The thunderstorms that have been rolling through Edmonton and other parts of central Alberta appear to have punched themselves out.
  There are no thunderstorms in Environment Canada’s Sunday forecast. The weather science folks there are calling for showers ending this morning, with a mix of sun and cloud.
  The windy weather is sticking around though: expect winds becoming northwest 30 km/h, gusting to 50 km/h.
  It’s also looking to get up to 22 C. So niceish?
  There was a rainfall warnin
  
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• Three new top cops. An updated Police Act. Will the next year see a sea change in Alberta policing?

  22-07-2018 14:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  In the next 12 months, Alberta’s three largest police services will select new commanders.
  Provincial leaders, meanwhile, will open up the 30-year-old legislation governing policing in the province.
  It has the potential to be a sea change year for policing in Alberta. But some policing observers aren’t expecting much.
  Edmonton, Calgary and the RCMP’s K-Division account for over 90 per cent of Alberta’s 7,400 police officers.
  On Tuesday, Calgary Police Chief Roger Chaffin
  
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• From The Cult of Hockey, warm July days may dominate our time, but the Edmonton Oilers are never far from our thoughts: 9 Things

  22-07-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A committed Edmonton Oilers watcher?
  Here it is mid-July, a shot sun-drenched day out on the West Coast, and I’m sitting on my deck by the ocean…writing a hockey column.
  Instead of committed, maybe I should be just be committed?
  But this isn’t all that unusual for me, actually. I well remember as a kid waiting for the summer edition of The Hockey News to arrive at the Leavins house. Every member of the family would fight for their time with it. The summer edition was unique in
  
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• Edmonton police response times are getting slower, and citizens are taking notice

  22-07-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton city police are getting to their calls on time more often than not, but overall response times are creeping upward and citizens appear to be noticing. 
  Officers responded to 166,000 urgent calls for service in 2017, according to a semi-annual report to the Edmonton Police Commission Thursday.
  Police rank calls based on their urgency, with targets ranging between seven minutes or fewer to 180 minutes between dispatch and arrival on scene.
  “We are struggling,” Deputy
  
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• Camrose cops: On patrol with one of Alberta's small town police forces

  22-07-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  “Oh hey there,” Const. Brad Niven says, seemingly to no one in particular, as a line of vehicles passes his marked police cruiser.
  “Where are you off to?”
  He takes another look, craning his neck to watch one of the cars make a right-hand turn down a quiet, tree-lined residential street in the city of Camrose.
  Who was that?
  “Oh she’s one of our known drug dealers.”
  That’s the benefit of policing a small city, Niven said, his police radio crackling i
  
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• PHOTOS: Wild Ride at K-Days Rodeo

  22-07-2018 07:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Wyatt Maines from Maple Creek, Saskatchewan goes for a wild ride on a horse named “Goodtimes” in the bareback riding event at the K-Days Rodeo, held at the Edmonton Expo Center on Saturday July 21, 2018. The K-Days rodeo is the largest Canadian Professional Rodeo Association’s sanctioned regular season rodeo in Canada, the seventh largest Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association sanctioned rodeo in the world and the eighth largest pro-rodeo in the world. The three-day event concl
  
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• Can Edmonton Oilers prospect Joseph Gambardella take one more major 2nd year developmental leap?

  22-07-2018 05:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  2018 Edmonton Oilers Prospects
  This year’s rankings were obtained by the average of five raters: our homegrown trio of David Staples, Bruce McCurdy and yours truly, along with Matt Mosewich of Edmonton Prospect Watch (@EDProspectWatch) and Sean Patrick Ryan of The Oil Knight (TheOilNight.ca).
  #24, Joe Gambardella
  There’s a short window for a 23-year-old college free agent to make his mark with an NHL team, though he does have a few things going for him.
  For example, he&rsqu
  
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• Edmonton weather: Risk of thunderstorm tonight, rainfall and thunderstorm warnings in northern Alberta

  22-07-2018 04:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  Environment Canada is calling for another possible thunderstorm in Edmonton Saturday night after one swept through the city in the early afternoon and another tore through trees Friday evening.
  Forecasters are calling for a 60 per cent chance of showers overnight and a risk of a thunderstorm with a low of 10.
  Expect 20 km/h winds from the northwest with gusts to 40 km/h.
  Rainfall warning
  There is a rainfall warning in place for Fort Chipewyan-Woof Buffalo National Park as of 5 p.m. Sat
  
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• Racing bikes belonging to Malaysian youth cycling team stolen from Argyll Velodrome

  22-07-2018 04:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s cycling community responded quickly to get a competitive youth cycling team from Malaysia back on the track after their bikes and equipment were stolen from the Argyll Velodrome.
  A total of 10 specialized bikes, valued around $45,000, were taken from a storage shed on site between 9 p.m. Tuesday and 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Edmonton Police said in a release Thursday afternoon.
  The team of six cyclists from the state of Sarawak have been in Edmonton since mid-June training daily for
  
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• Tracking Edmonton's train roots: Railway family donates display of train-living memories

  22-07-2018 02:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  A family with a rich history in Alberta’s railways is hoping to share a little bit of what life was like living on the tracks.
  Three generations of the family of Johnny Deakin — former Northern Alberta Railways superintendent — visited the old family railcar at the Alberta Railway Museum Saturday afternoon to donate a display with photographs and memories from one of the youngest train residents.
  Deakin was the railway superintendent from 1928 to 1953 and his family spent numer
  
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• Enough to make your head spin: taking a twirl on K-Days rides

  22-07-2018 02:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  Every year they come to Northlands to test their mettle against spinning, twirling, stringently safety-tested machines designed to induce fear.
  This year was no different as Edmontonians from all walks of life gathered at the K-Days fairgrounds Saturday afternoon to try out the rides on display.
  “It’s a bonding experience,” said Daniel Gu, 20, after taking a spin on the mainstay Mach 3 with friend Ben Yuen, also 20. On that ride, two 100-foot arms spin around an axis, riders se
  
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