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A familiar face will be sticking around the U15 AAA Fort Saskatchewan Rangers. 

Last week the club announced that head coach Tyson Munro will remain the team's head coach heading into the 2023/24 hockey season. 

Munroe has an extensive history of coaching at a high level and has a bachelor of kinesiology from the University of Alberta and majored in sports coaching. 

It looks like Colin Mochrie won't be coming to Sherwood Park for a while.

Festival Place was meant to host Mochrie, famous for his role on 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', in late March as part of his 'HYPROV' tour. 

However, Festival Place announced that the show has been moved to mid-November.

Brett Fraser, the theatre supervisor, said it all came down to scheduling.

"Mochrie is doing some filming and taping for some broadcasts that will be going on over the summer," said Fraser. "So, he had to cancel multiple dates, including ours."

A Sherwood Park counselling centre has received a significant donation from the provincial government. 

On Monday (Apr. 10) the government announced that they would be donating $166,570 to the Saffron Centre. 

The centre is a Sherwood Park-based organization that offers counselling to people impacted by sexual violence.

Roxane Tiessen, executive director of the Saffron Centre, says that this donation will help with their increasing waitlist.

The identity of the Strathcona County RCMP officer that died early Monday (Apr. 10) morning has been revealed.

Mounties confirmed that 32-year-old Constable Harvinder 'Harvey' Singh Dhami died in a vehicle collision while on his way to respond to a noise complaint.

The incident took place at around 2 a.m. at Township Road 540.

With many areas looking at above-20-degree temperatures, farmers will see any remaining snowpack leave soon.

That's the consensus among weather forecasting services, which are forecasting a strong westerly flow across the prairies.

Alberta has been the odd province out as it's had less snow to keep things cold compared to Saskatchewan or Manitoba, but that's set to equal out soon.

The combined melting will be good for farmers, so long as more moisture isn't coming down, says Weatherlogics CEO Scott Kehler.

Police have released more details on a fatal collision involving a Strathcona County RCMP officer.

Mounties confirmed that 32-year-old Constable Harvinder Singh Dhami died in a vehicle collision early Monday morning (Apr. 10).

In the statement, police say that Singh Dhami was responding to assist other officers in a noise complaint when his cruiser collided with a concrete barrier.

The incident took place at around 2 a.m.

Environment Canada issued a wind warning for the area early Monday morning (Apr. 10).

The weather agency says those gusts ranged from 70 km/h to almost 90 km/h.

"We had a pretty intense cold front swing through the province," said Erin Staunton, a meteorologist with Environment Canada.

The strongest wind gust in the area was reported at the Villeneuve Airport in Sturgeon County, at 89 km/h.

"It's not uncommon to see quite strong gusty winds with a cold front, such as what we had come through," said Staunton.

The Sherwood Park Knights capped off their season at provincials over the weekend. 

The CJHL championship came up just short of a provincial medal, losing 7-3 to the CBHA Rangers. The eventual provincial champions were the Wainwright Bisons. 

It was an up-and-down tournament for the Knights. They lost their opener 3-2 to the Rangers but collected a couple of 3-0 and 6-4 wins against Fort St. John and Sylvan Lake respectively. 

They lost to the Okotoks Bison 6-3 to give them a 2-3-0 record through the round-robin. 

Canadian agriculture producers are becoming more comfortable with the adoption of digital data tools and farm management software, bolstering their trust in the technology according to a RealAgristudies survey.

The survey shows how farmers are adopting digital tools and managing data, as 66 per cent of respondents said they feel the companies that handle their data are doing a good or excellent job. That’s a 31 per cent increase from the survey conducted by AgExpert in 2018 that asked the same question.

Police have released more details on a fatal collision involving a Strathcona County RCMP officer.

Mounties confirmed that 32-year-old Constable Harvinder Singh Dhami died in a vehicle collision early Monday morning (Apr. 10).

In the statement, police say that Singh Dhami was responding to assist other officers in a noise complaint when his cruiser collided with a concrete barrier.

The incident took place at around 2 a.m.