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City council put a stop to its plans Monday night to move to a new committee structure after the city manager told them he doesn’t have enough staff.

After getting caught with two bottles of stolen liquor stuffed down the front of his pants, one man has admitted to having a drinking problem. Sean Mark McDade pleaded guilty to theft under $5,000 in St.

A community is slowly picking up the pieces and carrying on after a fire destroyed St. Andrew’s Anglican Church in Morinville last week. Greg Fraser, pastor of The Father’s House church, which rented space at St.

Dave Ranson’s butt is going to be sore, but it’s a small price to pay for saving so many other people’s necks. He’s about to embark upon a motorcycle trip the likes of which he’s never undertaken.

You'd expect a creature called the mourning cloak butterfly to be all doom and gloom, but it's not. Indeed, one of my most vivid encounters with them was a celebration of life.

A host of problems, including bugs, bad roots and a harsh winter are behind a recent rash of spruce and pine deaths in St. Albert, say local experts.

Hundreds of local children will get to learn more about water this year thanks to a $20,000 grant towards a local wetland. Epcor handed a $20,000 cheque to Ducks Unlimited Monday to fund public education programs at the John E.

Any potential disaster that might strike St. Albert would trigger a sequence of events designed to properly manage the emergency, says the city's fire chief and director of emergency management.

There is nothing but a dirt road leading to Sparrow's Hope and no signage to reveal its location. For all the people who live nearby may know, the house does not even exist.

Any one of the recommendations in the final report produced by the St. Albert Trail committee is the most important, depending on the reason you use the Trail, the chair said.