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The heart of Morinville will get a little bit taller under the proposed Coeur de Morinville area structure plan, residents learned last week – a plan that would add a two-storey minimum requirement for commercial buildings to the downtown.

The race for the mayor's chair is officially on after 2010 mayoral challenger Shelley Biermanski announced she will again try to unseat Nolan Crouse. Biermanski told the Gazette Tuesday there is a large swath of voters looking for change and she is the person who can provide it. “I believe we have to go back to what St. Albert is truly supposed to be,” said Biermanski.

Gareth Jones wants his seat back. Defeated in the 2010 election after serving his first term on city council, the 73-year-old electrical equipment manager and founding member of the St.

Many St. Albert commuters have been rubbing their eyes in disbelief lately. All of the attention has been directed to Raemonde Bezenar, a local woman who has been training for a marathon – in a full-body gorilla suit.

Ant fossils have been found in amber that is dated almost 100 million years old so there have been ants much longer than there have been humans on Earth.

Heidi Aguilar is starved for people. The manager of St. Albert-based Sleep Inn Motel said she went through 19 employees in one year. To fill the much-needed positions more permanently, she hired foreign workers.

Residents will get a glimpse of what emergency services personnel in St. Albert do on a daily basis during an open house on Tuesday. The St. Albert Fire and Emergency Services department will be holding an open house on May 21 from 7 to 9 p.m.

St. Albert’s business leaders need to use their influence to encourage more of their peers to hire inclusively and pay fairly, Mayor Nolan Crouse said Wednesday. Speaking to about 100 people at the St.

Campgrounds, parks and yards will no doubt be brimming with people celebrating the Victoria Day weekend, and the roads will likely be no different. Local RCMP is encouraging St.

The 24th of May is the Queen’s birthday, If you don’t give us a holiday, we’ll all run away! Pompous, prudish, plump and plain! If anyone thinks of Queen Victoria, who still ranks as the longest-reigning monarch in British history,