Fort Saskatchewan News

A derailment near Shell Canada's Scotford refinery, about 40 kilometres northeast of Edmonton, caused 15 cars to leave the tracks in the railyard, CN Rail said Tuesday.

The Canadian and Alberta governments said on Tuesday they will invest as much as C$558 million in a pipeline project to carry carbon-dioxide from an industrial region near Edmonton, Alberta, to aging oil fields.

One person is dead and another is in hospital after a vehicle plummeted off a bridge and into an icy northern Alberta river.

Fort Saskatchewan Pottery Guild member Shirley Yakimets, right, shows a customer some of the interesting pieces for sale during the guild s annual Christmas sale held last Saturday at the group s studio in the DCC.

The first step to a possible carbon capture pipeline came via the Alberta government last week.

The Fort Saskatchewan Christmas Hamper campaign officially kicked off Monday. Volunteers will man a table Monday through Saturday in Sobeys for the next several weeks from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Non-perishable food items, toys and money can be donated at the table.

A pipeline carrying carbon dioxide from near Fort Saskatchewan to mature oilfields in Central Alberta should create new opportunities for the local service sector, says the CEO of a company behind the project.

German steel maker ThyssenKrupp has reported a loss of 1.87 billion euros for the 2008-9 fiscal year and plans to cut 5,000 jobs and sell divisions employing another 15,000 people.

Music teacher Darwin Krips, right, conducts a music class as Bomba band member Aldo Aguirre, left, plays his violin at Sturgeon Composite High School in Namao on Monday.

Four-year-old riley enns personally delivers his list to the jolly old elf himself, St.

The Alberta government signed a Letter of Intent with Enhance Energy and North West Upgrading to construct a 240-km carbon dioxide pipeline system that will greatly increase the capacity for future carbon capture and storage projects in the province.

Owners of what would be one of the largest industrial construction projects in the Edmonton region-- the three-phase, $15-billion North West Upgrader near Fort Saskatchewan-- are anxious to get rolling.

More than 2,000 people showed up at Rexall Place on Tuesday to demand the province bury proposed electrical transmission lines.

EDMONTON / Feel it? Suddenly, there's a buzz in the air. Alberta's big, bad oilsands are back in vogue.

The old guy's sporting a shiner. What happened? "I went to a dance," he says. "This sassy young thing came up to me.

Nov. 16, 2009 10:56 a.m. German conglomerate ThyssenKrupp AG is selling its Safway Group, based in Waukesha, to Odyssey Investment Partners LLC, a U.S. private equity firm, ThyssenKrupp said in a statement Monday.

A 79-year-old motorcyclist is dead after he hit a moose near Gibbons on Sunday night.

EDMONTON a ' A 79-year-old motorcyclist from Fort Saskatchewan is dead after he hit a moose Sunday south of Gibbons.

Two Canadians are in hot water in the United States over accusations they deposited tax refund cheques they weren't entitled to -- worth hundreds of thousands of dollars each -- into U.S. bank accounts.

Imperial Oila s $8 billion Kearl oilsands project has generated a long-term deal with Keyera Facilities Income Fund to provide diluent transportation, storage and loading services in the Edmonton area.