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It would be an understatement to say the battle against The Beast, as the Fort McMurray wildfire became known, required a lot of people and effort.

It’s a place of wonder and imagination, though it sits in a muddy field behind fences just north of the centre of Morinville – and it’s not even open yet.

The man who will take on the top job with the City of St. Albert is no stranger to public-sector work, as he’s currently the deputy manager of the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo.

A St. Albert-based company will be taking its filter technology global this month as it takes part in an international climate change conference.

Hundreds of St. Albert students are back from a Calgary event to help save the world as part of We Day. Roughly 350 students from the Greater St. Albert Catholic and St.

County residents could be out $185 more in taxes next year under the first draft of Sturgeon County's latest budget, almost all of which is due to the province and utilities.

The character Katsume had a difficult childhood but has managed to make the most of it. She was adopted by a Japanese family after her English missionary parents traveled to Japan and met their untimely deaths.

The official opposition party hosted its annual general meeting this weekend and addressed pressing policy issues before the fall session started on Monday.

Morinville residents will get free library cards, an improved cemetery and a bigger trash bill next year if town council approves its next budget as proposed. Town council passed first reading of the 2017 operating and capital budget on Oct. 25.

A justice has rejected a call for a mistrial and found Travis Vader guilty of manslaughter in the death of a St. Albert couple. Vader’s murder convictions were vacated Monday and substituted with guilty verdicts on two charges of manslaughter.