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County residents may pay a little less come tax time this year due to an unexpected jump in inflation – if county council ever passes its mill rate, that is. Council voted 3-2 against first reading of its 2013 taxation rates bylaw Tuesday.

Residents of all ages will soon be able to play one of North America’s fastest-growing sports on an outdoor surface in St. Albert. Council on Monday night approved a motion by Coun. Len Bracko to create two pickleball courts at Larose Park.

As much as we would all prefer to live our lives in peace and harmony, everyone will butt heads with someone else at some point in their lives. “It is really unavoidable,” Silvia BĂ©gin says. She should know.

If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a community village to fight poverty. The St. Albert Food Bank has adopted the “It takes a village” motto in order to give their clients a hand up, not just a handout.

Seniors in Alberta can now postpone paying their residential property taxes until they move out or sell their home.

Jelly beans, chocolate and peanut butter. These are three foods expectant mom Hannah Beckett from St. Albert likes to snack on, especially during pregnancy.

City council hit the brakes on all work to require trains to stop blowing their whistles in the city limits after the estimated cost jumped significantly.

Anne Jwaszko thinks nothing of climbing up and down a ladder to clean some of the 84 birdhouses located in her backyard. That may not be that unusual except that Jwaszko turned 80 at the end of March.

If you can imagine a wee terrarium-sized garden, built to scale and complete with tiny patio chairs and swings, you're halfway to designing your very first fairy garden.

Twenty-three hours, 59 minutes and 10 seconds. Hands fidgeting, lips clenched, fingers counting down the last few seconds of a 24-hour vow of silence. “I can say stuff again!” yelled one boy at 9:12 a.m. when the silence broke.