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Visitors who relax in the shady gazebo in Lorene and Ernie Silverton’s Grandin-area yard often remark on the garden’s peaceful, almost forest-like solitude. That comment usually earns a smile, because it didn’t used to be that way.

This week is the one when gardeners take a little more time to smell their roses because they are hoping that at least one of them will be a winner at the St. Albert Botanic Park’s annual rose show scheduled to take place Sunday.

A new smartphone app launched by a local crime watch group will enable ordinary citizens to participate in policing their own community.

Picture yourself wearing a fur coat as you sit in a vehicle on a hot day. This is the image that the Edmonton Humane Society is promoting as it warns the public about the dangers of leaving your pet in your car during the summer months.

A suggestion that could see St. Albert’s newest elementary school built in Kingswood instead of Erin Ridge North appears to be a non-starter. At Monday’s city council meeting Coun.

In the wake of a recent merger between Loblaw Companies and Shoppers Drug Mart, one local pharmacist worries about the effect large conglomerates will have on small pharmacies already strained by government cuts.

It’s not often that you hear about criminals thanking cops for arresting them, but just such a case showed up in St. Albert court this week. Gerard Murray Gladue pleaded guilty to one count of impaired operation of a motor vehicle Monday in St.

The number of workers living at a rented home on Gould Place appears to be within what’s allowed under the city’s bylaws, but that hasn’t brought any relief to neighbours.

The city will have another look at its flood plain data for the sake of caution but is confident little will need to change in the wake of the province’s policy change on housing development within flood areas.

One of the backpacks had gotten hung up in Vancouver – tag came off, which meant the pack stayed behind. The delay resulted in our not having a chance to buy food for the six-hour flight to Honolulu.