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If the streets seem a little more crowded, the grocery store a little busier and your neighbourhood seems bigger, it is not your imagination. According to 2011 census data that Statistics Canada released Wednesday, St.

Alberta Health Services (AHS) is hitting back at complaints over ambulance service in St. Albert with a raft of statistics that have never before been publicly released.

The town hall meeting scheduled for Feb. 25 will have a structured agenda, despite recommendations from administration to leave the format completely open to allow residents to discuss their concerns with council. Coun.

This year’s warm, dry winter has some farmers worried about hay, says a local farmer, but most are kicking back and enjoying the rare heat.

The need to assess all infrastructure as it relates to new development, in light of an Alberta Court of Appeal ruling, is needed more than simply developing a policy as it relates to trails, St. Albert city council decided Monday night. Coun.

A young man will spend the next year and a half on probation for going on a car-smashing spree. Adam Troy Riddell, 26, pled guilty Monday to one count of property-related mischief. He appeared in St.

Bob Russell has sang in a church choir and won a Canadian boxing championship. He's fought a losing Liberal battle in a Conservative province and adeptly served St. Albert for 12 years on different city councils.

You could call it a hair-raising ordeal to sit in a chair in front of a crowd of people, right before a hairdresser razes your hair “down to the wood” as they say.

My name is Zoe and I am a three-year-old spayed female border collie Labrador retriever mix looking for a new loving home. I am being fostered on an acreage with horses and sheep and other dogs and cats, too. I am good with everything.