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A go-to destination for comic fans across Edmonton, downtown’s Happy Harbor Comics will be closing at the end of January after almost 20 years in the business. Store co-owner Jay Bardyla took to social media on Tuesday morning, Dec. 19, 2018, informing longtime customers of the surprise announcement.

Paula Simons talks about the purchase of the 127-year-old Strathcona Hotel on Edmonton's Whyte Avenue by a developer and his plans for it.

It's going to be hot the next couple of days. Be ready!

A ceremony to kick off a memorial hockey tournament organized by friends of four Humboldt Broncos hockey players from St. Albert, Alberta who died in the tragic bus crash three months ago was held in St. Albert on July 6, 2018. The weekend tournament, running Friday through Sunday at the Mark Messier Arena in Servus Place, honoured four fallen Broncos who were St. Albert hockey alumni: Stephen Wack, Jaxon Joseph, Logan Hunter and Conner Lukan. A ceremonial puck was dropped by Humboldt Broncos survivors Derek Patter and Tyler Smith before the game.

More than fifteen years after Alberta’s ballooning class sizes became a flashpoint in an acrimonious teachers’ strike, tales of classes that start the year with more students than desks remain common. Parents speak of children competing for teachers’ attention, while teachers in turn struggle to meet dozens of students’ complex needs. All this is despite high-profile class-size targets on the books and at least $2.7 billion of taxpayers’ money provided since 2004 to hire teachers and meet those goals.