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Tickets for this year’s highly anticipated Camp fYrefly Gala Wine Tasting and Silent Auction went on sale Tuesday but every single one was snapped up by Thursday.

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Patrick O’Sullivan is feeling a bit more breeze as he skates down the ice these days. The Edmonton Oilers right winger spent Tuesday afternoon getting his hair bleached and dyed pink before having it all shaved off.

A 16-year-old who brought a hunting knife to a local high school last fall was handed a conditional discharge and 25 community service hours. The young man pleaded guilty to charges of carrying a concealed weapon and was handed the term.

A St. Albert ski club is helping recovering addicts kick drugs for the great outdoors. The St. Albert Nordic Ski Club (STANSKI) has teamed up with Poundmaker's Lodge to set ski trails on the centre's property.

Local elders have teamed up with an Edmonton college to teach the Internet about aboriginals. Staff at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) launched their first-ever online Aboriginal Awareness course last week.

Despite the economic downturn, the city had a banner year for industrial growth last year, issuing more than $41 million in building permits.

A local agency is encouraging families to start making noise about cuts to funding for persons with developmental disabilities (PDD).

State of the City address this Wednesday The 2010 St. Albert State of The City address will be delivered by Mayor Nolan Crouse this Wednesday, Feb. 10, at the chamber of commerce Business @ Lunch meeting.

A recent string of assaults against Edmonton Transit operators, including a driver who lives in St. Albert, has prompted local officials to take a closer look at tightening security on city buses.