Local News

A two-term councillor has become the first out of the starting block in this year’s race for the Sturgeon County mayor’s chair.

Villeneuve Airport may house over 400 airplanes one day, says a local business owner who is building hangar space at the airport.

A longtime friend and ally of Brent Rathgeber has resigned from the executive of the local Tory riding association as a gesture of solidarity with the now independent MP. Doug Elniski left the board of the Edmonton-St.

Twenty-four Alberta communities will be home to a new primary care initiative called family care clinics, as announced by the provincial government last week.

One local junior high school’s student body was in full on a recent Friday and it was all in the name of the kind of education that doesn’t come from a textbook.

The woman found guilty of stabbing a local realtor to death in 2006, is back behind bars for kidnapping and robbing a 16-year-old girl at knifepoint last week.

Author and Dragon’s Den personality David Chilton will speak at the third annual Regional Business Symposium in Morinville on June 20.

Instead of pressing forward with its plans to purchase 12 additional rental apartment units, the St. Albert Housing Society now wants to buy 64.

Average sales for single-family homes in St. Albert dropped by 5.7 per cent in May, compared to the same month last year, the Realtors Association of Edmonton reported this week in their monthly housing bulletin. St.

Construction work on St. Albert Crossing is expected to resume next month and finish this year. The three-storey building, located next to Socrates Restaurant on St. Albert Trail, was planned as a medical professional centre.