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St. Albert’s Catholic school board wants a new school too. A week after the Protestant board decided to take its long-time demand for a new school directly to Premier Ed Stelmach, the Catholic board voiced its own desire for a new school in St.

A piece of a falling star will now grace the top of St. Albert's Christmas tree thanks to some local artists. Hundreds of city residents are expected downtown this Thursday night as the St.

I am an annoyed taxpayer. My wife and I with our three young children moved here in 1990. On our first day we saw a stream of parents and children coming from St. Albert Place carrying bags of books. We had come from Kanata, Ont.

The province should let people buy and sell shares of Alberta rivers, say three new reports, but only after it reserves part of them for ecological protection. Alberta Environment released three reports last week on Alberta's water licence system.

St. Albert's form-based zoning plan needs some additions before it can be called smart growth. City council will receive an economic analysis of its smart growth plan next month.

The impact of what happened in the First World War lingers and will never be lost to time, not even in distant memory. So many lives, so many heroes and so many stories still left to tell.

Sturgeon County Mayor Don Rigney will look to keep his spot in the mayor’s chair next fall. Rigney told the Gazette on Tuesday he intends to run again for a second term in office in next October’s civic election.

Municipal Affairs Minister Ray Danyluk told a St. Albert breakfast crowd municipalities are important to the government, but he doesn’t know what their funding will look like next year.

St. Albert homeowners can expect to see a 2.78 per cent residential property tax increase next year. The proposed increase for business owners is 2.95 per cent.

As Albertans prepare to roll up their sleeves for H1N1 flu vaccines, one local school is already feeling the pinch.