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Alexander residents will find out who’s on their ballot this week as nominations for band elections come to a close. Band council announced on July 11 that it would hold a general election on Aug. 11.

A man convicted as an accessory in the brutal slaying of former St. Albert resident David Wong had his statutory release denied last week and will not be released from prison.

A St. Albert woman and former employee of the Arden theatre paid back the $6,700 she admitted to stealing from the theatre's deposits and was sentenced to a six months of house arrest Monday.

St. Albert can learn a thing or two about web streaming from Grande Prairie.

The Alberta Party released its plans for democratic renewal last week, calling for fixed election dates, term limits for premiers and a more open budget process.

Local PC leadership hopeful Doug Horner picked up another cabinet endorsement this week as Culture and Community Spirit Minister Lindsay Blackett threw his support behind the MLA for Spruce Grove-Sturgeon-St. Albert.

Mayors of Alberta’s mid-sized cities are continuing to pressure the provincial government to back away from a decision to charge municipalities $15 for searching motor vehicle registrations.

Gary Edwin Mattson will spent an indefinite period of time behind bars after he was declared a dangerous offender Monday, for his vicious attack on St. Albert man Tom Bregg. Bregg was an Edmonton Transit driver when Mattson boarded his bus on Dec.

While St. Albert's 150th anniversary has been celebrated throughout the year, 2011 also marks the beginning of the end to a revenue sharing agreement that one former mayor says is the worst in the city's history. In 2004, St.

Gary Edwin Mattson, guilty of a vicious assault on St. Albert resident and Edmonton Transit bus driver Tom Bregg, has been declared a dangerous offender and will be incarcerated indefinitely.