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Unclear maps, new polling stations and lack of voter cards all contributed to hundreds of local voters showing up at the wrong polling stations ready to cast their ballot on Monday. Catherine Hackett, returning officer in Spruce Grove-St.

Balou is one of four puppies born by Caesarian section to a Rottweiler-cross mom on Feb. 27. She was unable to care for her pups and so they came to the Northern Alberta Society for Animal Protection (NASAP).

Raoul St. Jean wore a lot of hats in Legal. "When I started in 1949, the water system was broken," recalls the long-time town employee who was the town's sole employee at the time, so it was up to him to fix the pipes.

For the first time in its 61-year history, the Alberta Horticultural Association’s annual conference will be held in St. Albert. The event, which features two agricultural experts as speakers, will take place May 4 and 5.

A man who made veiled threats to his ex-wife encouraging her not to attend a coming trial, was sentenced to six months in jail on Monday.

Incumbent Progressive Conservative candidate Jeff Johnson was returned to the Alberta legislature Monday night, turning back the challenge of Wildrose opponent Travis Olson in the Athabasca-Sturgeon-Redwater riding.

It was too close to call for nearly three hours after the polls closed Monday night, but in the end Progressive Conservative candidate Maureen Kubinec won the Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock riding by a slim margin.

Supporters surrounded re-elected incumbent Progressive Conservative candidate Jeff Johnson as a PC majority government was announced early Monday night.

Ken Kowalski is retired but voters in the Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock riding weren’t about to turn their backs on the Progressive Conservative party they have supported for decades.

Almost two years after the disappearance of St. Albert couple Lyle and Marie McCann, Travis Vader has been charged with first-degree murder in their deaths.