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Mayor Nolan Crouse doesn’t want to call it a “fund.” Coun. Cam MacKay thinks the city has no business spending $40 million on anything. But in the end, St.

Every outdoor rink operated by the city has closed for the season, with the exception of Lacombe Lake.

Most city residents will give you a funny look if you say “BooĹ„zhuur” to them today. That's because it's a word (“hello”) in Michif – a language spoken by less than 600 people. Yet you would have heard it everywhere in Alberta 150 years ago, says Judy Iseke, the Canada Research Chair in indigenous knowledge at Lakehead University and a St. Albert resident.

This year's edition of the Rooftop Campout raised more than $47,000 for Muscular Dystrophy Canada, besting its goal of $20,000. It even beat its campaign total from last year by several thousand dollars.

Mayor Nolan Crouse is clear – restricting what head shops or stores that sell drug paraphernalia can sell, in isolation, isn’t going to change the world.

The deadline for nominations this year’s Volunteer Citizen of the Year Awards is fast approaching and organizers are scrambling to make sure they have enough nominees. Next Friday at 5:00 p.m. gives people only nine more days.

The advent of spring means only three things: melting snow, the returning robins and countless thousands of people chewing their nails over their income tax returns.

A young journalism student got some first-hand experience in the workings of the criminal justice system Monday as he pleaded guilty for beating up two people at a local bar.

The Cardiff Corner interchange is on indefinite hold thanks to the provincial budget crunch, says the province’s transportation department. Finance Minister Doug Horner tabled the 2013-2014 provincial budget last week.

The province needs to learn to live within its means, says Alberta’s finance minister, and that means saving cash and cutting fat before raising taxes.