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Property owners will have much clearer rights to sell their property to the government or to force an expropriation hearing under a new bill introduced on Monday.

Housing starts in St. Albert were up 60 per cent over last year and reflect the turnaround seen in the overall metropolitan Edmonton region throughout the month of October.

The NDP candidates for Athabasca-Sturgeon-Redwater and Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock are ready to switch from competing against each other to competing for the party in the next provincial election.

Welcome to Our People, a new addition to the Gazette. St. Albert and area is full of individuals with interesting lives and stories to tell, or who have become successful in their careers, often quietly, behind the scenes.

Former Morinville resident Donna Hunter, who spearheaded a push for secular schooling in that town, has been selected along with a group of mothers for an award by the Alberta Civil Liberties Association. The award will be presented Nov.

Alberta’s children’s advocate will get new powers and report directly to the legislature under new legislation introduced into the legislature this week.

The provincial government is taking aim at impaired driving with new legislation to be introduced Monday, but some opposition politicians believe the changes are missing the mark.

The bells are ringing for the annual Christmas Kettle campaign, thanks to a platoon of volunteers working for the Salvation Army.

A gun was fired at a house on Granite Avenue early Sunday morning and police are looking for information from the public to help determine who did it. Police believe the shot came from a shotgun that was fired at the house around 3 a.m.

The writing is on the wall for a group of area students. Twelve youths from all levels of both Catholic and Protestant school districts were presented as the St.