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St. Albert students are giving the city back to Nature, one tree at a time. This week Grade 11 and 12 students from Bellerose planted trees in the Lacombe Lake parkway, which is on the site of an old railway spur-line near Lindbergh Crescent.

St. Albert’s two new schools will both be built in Erin Ridge, and that has city councillors worried about potential traffic jams along Erin Ridge Drive.

When John McDougall joined the Canadian military in 1989, he had a secret: he was gay. And he didn’t dare tell anyone.

‘Angels’ is how Deana Popowich describes the people that volunteer to install her daughter Halle’s playground piece.

Landfills are the top environmental issue in Alberta, says St. Albert’s latest provincial environment minister, and compost is the best way to shrink them.

While it might not be as bad as Edmonton, St. Albert’s pothole situation is definitely worse than in any recent year in memory, say city officials.

Earlier this week, my wife and I observed the 42nd anniversary of our marriage (I would have said “celebrated” our anniversary, but I’m not sure the occasion is a celebration for my better half.

During his closely watched press conference following his resignation from the Conservative caucus Thursday, someone asked Brent Rathgeber if, given his history in politics, this outcome was inevitable.

A sea of neon T-shirts filled the square outside the Alberta Legislature for the third time on Friday in protest of provincial funding cuts to programming for persons with developmental disabilities (PDD). The St.

“New York is big, but this is Biggar” boasts the town of Biggar, Saskatchewan. Further east, Melville brags that it is the smallest official city in Saskatchewan. They’re a quirky bunch, our neighbours the Saskatchewanians.