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County residents will pay about $127 more in taxes next year now that council has approved an 8.55-per-cent tax increase – one meant to fix crumbling roads and flooded fields. County council voted 6-1 in favour of its 2015 budget Tuesday. Coun.

Alberta Health Services wants county residents to test their private wells for arsenic.

RCMP are increasing both daytime and nighttime patrols in the Akinsdale area after a rash of tire slashings and other vandalism incidents last week. Several vehicles had their tires slashed or had the air let out of their tires between Sept.

The end of the race to be the Conservative Party of Canada nominee for St. Albert-Edmonton is in sight. On Thursday, the Conservative Party gave the go-ahead for a nomination contest to be held.

A story on genetic breast cancer in the Oct. 4 edition of the St. Albert Gazette contained some incorrect information. The Allard Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Clinic does not test people for genetic markers.

Twenty St. Albert families could have a chance for a new home and life in 2015, pending the continued success of the St. Albert Housing Society. The society addressed members of the St.

Developer Amacon has made a few changes to its planned development at the former site of Grandin Park Plaza, which will see fewer high-rises erected at the site.

Mayor Nolan Crouse will be bringing forward his own audit of his expenses for council’s consideration.

Canada may yet have to send troops to Iraq in order to stop the terrorist threat of ISIS, says St. Albert's member of Parliament.

Most parents wish an instruction manual came along with the birth of their child. Unfortunately, that is wishful thinking. But there is help.