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St. Albert residents can expect to see a 2.3-per-cent municipal tax increase next year after council approved the 2017 municipal budget this week. Council members voted 6-1 in favour of the budget at the Dec.

County residents will get better roads and more cash for libraries next year now that council has approved its latest budget – a budget that will cost them about $117 more in taxes. County council voted 5-2 in favour of the 2017 budget Tuesday.

As sentencing began this week in the manslaughter conviction of Travis Vader, the court heard of two very different kinds of nightmares.

Members of Morinville’s business community were recognized last Wednesday during the ninth annual Business Awards Gala.

Adults with disabilities who want to live together to share expenses may soon have one fewer hurdle to overcome. At the Dec.

The garrulous grackle is one of the many birds that could show up for the first time in the St. Albert bird count later this month. Count co-ordinator Alan Hingston put out a call for volunteers this week for the 26th annual St.

There's still a bit of dairy left on the Bocock farm.

The bids are in for a major sewer project in St. Albert, and the lowest bidder is asking roughly half what the city had anticipated.

St. Albert students learned to talk computer last week as part of a global effort to get kids interested in technology.

The Kinettes’ fill-a-bus event didn’t bring in quite as many donations as needed this year. On Saturday the frigid temperatures put a damper on the hamper collection efforts.