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CTV News
6 days ago
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Crew on lookout for Dutch elm disease this week in Spruce Grove
Yellow STOPDED (Society to Prevent Dutch Elm Disease) tape is wrapped around a tree in this undated file photo. Spruce Grove is on the lookout for Dutch elm disease this week. According to a news release, the city of about 40,000 is employing workers to look for signs of the disease as part of an Edmonton-area survey by the Society To Prevent Dutch Elm Disease. Workers with Living Tree Environmental are visually inspecting elms on behalf of the society. Spruce Grove is 15 kilometres west of the Edmonton city limit. The fungal infection has spread across North America over the last century, killing the trees, with Alberta and British Columbia the last areas considered free of it until 2024. The infection, which isn't curable, clogs an elm's water-conducting system and kills it in one to two years. It is spread by elm bark beetles, which feed on healthy trees and breed in dead and dying ones over the winter. Last month, the City of Edmonton removed several elms in the Alberta Avenue area after it confirmed a case of Dutch elm disease there on July 16 after planned tree assessments in the neighbourhood. The Edmonton case was the first this year and sixth since the disease was discovered in five trees a year ago in Killarney and the east Yellowhead Trail corridor between 97 Street and 66 Street. Elms within 20 metres of an infected tree in Edmonton are removed, while all elms within a one-kilometre radius are closely monitored, the city said last month. In Spruce Grove, the city inspects public elm trees and prunes them between Oct. 1 and March 31, when the elm bark beetle isn't active, to help prevent the disease's spread.
CBC
6 days ago
- CBC
Girl, 9, dead after being struck by pickup truck west of Edmonton
Social Sharing A young girl in Alberta is dead after police say she was hit by a pickup truck while riding a skateboard. In a news release Monday, RCMP said they responded to an area of Spruce Grove, west of Edmonton, where the nine-year-old was struck. Police said the girl had been sitting on a skateboard and rolling off a driveway when she was struck by a Dodge pickup truck just before 9 a.m. Monday. The driver of the truck was uninjured in the collision. Police remained on scene for several hours. The investigation continues. Charges have not been laid in the death, which came one day after another child was struck and killed by a truck in Alberta. Calgary police said a two-year-old girl died after she was hit by a pickup truck Monday in the back alley of a home.
CTV News
7 days ago
- CTV News
9-year-old girl struck and killed by pickup
9-year-old girl struck and killed by pickup A nine-year-old girl was killed on Tuesday after she was struck by a pickup in Spruce Grove, Alta.
CTV News
7 days ago
- CTV News
Former Alberta daycare workers charged with assault
Two women have been charged with assault on three toddlers in their care. The women were working at Little Stars Daycare in Spruce Grove at the time of the alleged assaults.
CTV News
7 days ago
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9-year-old girl on skateboard struck and killed west of Edmonton
A Dodge pickup truck is towed away from Hartwick Manor, where a girl was struck and killed on Aug. 5, 2025. (Brandon Lynch/CTV News Edmonton) A 9-year-old girl is dead after being hit by a truck in Spruce Grove on Tuesday morning. Just before 9 a.m., Parkland RCMP responded to a call about a person hit by a truck on Hartwick Manor. The 9-year-old was sitting on her skateboard, which was rolling off the driveway, when she was struck by a Dodge pickup, RCMP said in a release. The girl was taken to hospital in critical condition but died of her injuries. Police had previously released a statement just before 10 a.m. that the area of Hartwick Manor would have a heavy police presence while they investigated a crash. They were on the scene for several hours. The driver of the pickup was not injured in the collision. No charges have been laid but police are investigating the crash, RCMP told CTV News Edmonton.
