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RCMP have arrested a Fort Saskatchewan man for several gas station robberies in the city.

On Monday (Dec. 19), police responded to a report of a robbery at a convenience store in Fort Saskatchewan.

Officers sent out RCMP dogs who helped to locate and arrest 27-year-old Nigel Richey, a resident of Fort Saskatchewan.

After further investigation, police determined that Richey was also the culprit behind four previous robberies in Fort Saskatchewan on Sept. 12, Oct. 10, Oct. 11, and Nov. 17.

Richey has been charged with the following:

A Fort Saskatchewan resident is feeling the love. 

To say that Diane Stefanyk has had tough few years is an understatement. She lost one son back in 2017 and another earlier this year. 

"With my son passing, I moved to Fort Saskatchewan in April of 2017," said Stefanyk. "I stayed at that [Fort Saskatchewan] residence for a year."

Stefanyk stayed in that first place for about a year, and it was during her second move to another apartment in the city, that she learned of another development. 

A mass cancellation of school buses hit the region this morning (Dec. 20). 

All buses for Elk Island Public and Catholic schools have been cancelled due to extreme cold. 

The following bus routes for Sturgeon Public Schools will also not be running: 

Over the next two years, $80,000 in scholarship funds will be awarded.

The scholarships will be awarded to sixteen Senior 4-H Youth Leaders from across the countrty.

The scholarship program will focus on educational pursuits in agriculture, climate change and sustainability. 

Gemma Pryor, Senior Director, Canada Impact Team, McDonald's Canada says they wouldn't be who they are today without Canadian farmers, ranchers and growers. 

Canada's ban on the manufacture and import for sale of some plastic items, including grocery bags and straws, has taken effect.

As of today, companies can no longer produce or bring into Canada plastic checkout bags, cutlery, stir sticks, straws and takeout containers — and in a year, it will also be illegal to sell them.

The manufacturing and import ban will extend to the plastic rings used to package six-packs of canned drinks next June and their sale will be prohibited a year after that.

Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau making some key announcements recently.

Yesterday, she announced that the fourth payment under the Dairy Direct Payment Program (DDPP) is now available for dairy producers.

Dairy farmers will receive compensation payments based on their milk quota. 

For example, the owner of an 80 head dairy farm will receive $38,000 in direct payment compensation. 

The compensation for this fourth round of payments will total $468 million.

Police north of Toronto are working to determine the motive in what they've called a "horrendous" shooting at a condo that left five people, plus the suspected gunman, dead.

York Regional Police say Francesco Villi's victims at the high-rise building in Vaughan, Ont., on Sunday night included three members of the building's condo board.

Court documents indicate the 73-year-old had a lengthy history of threatening members of the board and believed they had a conspiracy to "systematically murder" him.

There have been reports that a school bus has been involved in a collision near Bruderheim. 

Alberta 511 first reported the collision just after 5 p.m. on Monday (Dec. 19) night on Highway 15 near Range Road 205. 

At this moment, no injuries have been reported. 

There are delays in the area. 

More to come...

Eleven metres below the surface of the Northwest Passage, deep within the wreck of one of Capt. John Franklin's doomed ships, something caught the eye of diver Ryan Harris.

Harris was in the middle of the 2022 field season on the wreck of HMS Erebus. The team had been hauling dozens of artifacts to the surface -- elaborate table settings, a lieutenant's epaulets still in their case, a lens from someone's eyeglasses. 

But this, sitting within the steward's pantry, was something else.

Snow and bitterly cold temperatures are in the forecast across most of the prairies this week. 

With the drop in temperatures, livestock producers will be busy putting out more feed. 

Livestock and Feed Extension Specialist Adriane Good says it's important to bump up rations.