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Building affordable housing at Big Lake Pointe is one thing, but determining just who can find the rent money to live there is quite another. Big Lake Pointe got a kick-start last month thanks to a $6.8-million federal/provincial grant.

The St. Albert RCMP detachment is in mourning after learning that one of its former officers was killed while working at a new posting in Quebec. Const. Vincent “Vinnie” Roy was killed Thursday afternoon in Quebec.

New rules for buses make it illegal for St. Albert Transit to cross the Anthony Henday into Edmonton, says Sturgeon County's mayor, and he wants the province to fix them.

When the image on the screen in city council chambers changed to show the tax-o-meter at the end of budget deliberations Thursday night, it showed a number of 2.

MLA Ken Allred took aim at video lottery terminals (VLTs) this week, questioning whether the crown corporation that runs them is being upfront with the public about how the machines work, how the finances are reported and what the true cost is to the

Bus drivers see a lot of things that many other people don’t. They see people in need, trying to squeeze by from paycheque to paycheque.

Not talking for the whole school day was the hardest part for Megan Stefner, who volunteered to play the role of a ghost Friday at Richard Fowler Catholic Junior High School.

A significant number of prostate biopsy tests performed this past summer at the Royal Alexandria Hospital were inaccurate, leading to possible misdiagnoses and mistreatment.

Everybody knows that Santa Claus doesn’t work alone. Sure, he takes all of the glory on Christmas Eve, but there is a factory full of elves working behind the scenes to make sure that everything comes together.

Only 24 people took the opportunity to vote Wednesday at the advance poll in the byelection to fill a vacant seat on the Protestant school board. Traditionally the voter turnout for trustee byelections in St. Albert is small.