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A St. Albert class is getting top marks for energy efficiency this week as it takes part in a national energy diet. Students in Monique Waters' Grade 3 class at Muriel Martin Elementary school are taking part in the Energy Diet Challenge — a national event organized by Shell Canada and Canadian Geographic that asks students from some 500 classes to get charged up about energy conservation.

A tentative three-year agreement between the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) and Alberta Health Services (AHS) sees an annual three per cent increase in wages for general support services workers.

County council is thinking about going back to having an unelected reeve instead of a mayor, a recent motion suggests — a move a former mayor denounces as a "cockamamie idea." Coun.

Mayor Nolan Crouse is tired of “the fear-mongerers” criticizing the state of St.

A few late bills from the 2011 fiscal year bit into the city’s surplus, but St. Albert will still finish the year $549,000 in the black, the standing committee on finance heard Monday.

The world has change dramatically from a century ago and lifelong Legal resident Alpheda Morin has been around to see it evolve.

County council has given a tentative thumbs-up to a proposed development on the site of the Peas On Earth farm.

A legendary St. Albert soccer coach who led local teams to national glory has died. St. Albert resident and retired soccer coach Herman Kochan died Feb. 25 at Edmonton's St. Joseph's Auxiliary Hospital. He was 77.

After almost 20 years of dishing up breakfast, lunch and dinner, the owner of Krickets Café is hanging up his apron. John Tzoumas, 72, has sold the property located on Liberton Drive to John Engel, owner of Mission Fun & Games. Sunday was the last day of business for Krickets.

The Alberta Liberals have named their candidate in the race for the Spruce Grove-St. Albert riding. Cpl. Chris Austin, a military police officer at the Edmonton Garrison, will carry the party’s banner in the next campaign.