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Despite a report recommending that the position of city councillor remain part-time, an attempted amendment came close to re-classifying it as full-time.

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A man arrested in a drug raid in 2009 was sentenced two years of house arrest on Monday after pleading guilty to possession of ketamine for the purposes of trafficking.

Spending hours in an emergency room has been avoided by more than 40 per cent of callers using Health Link, a new study shows.

A Villeneuve couple has become Sturgeon County's first-ever Volunteers of the Year. Pat and Simonne Sheehan received Sturgeon County's first Outstanding Volunteer of the Year award Tuesday night at the county's annual volunteer appreciation dinner.

Despite tours that took him from Medicine Hat to Slave Lake and a solid web and social media presence, Coun. Len Bracko finished well back of the top three in the election for senators-in-waiting.

His name was on the ballot and he will be the one sitting in the legislature, but Stephen Khan said it was a total team effort that got him elected Monday night and kept St. Albert Tory blue.

Business owners can save a bundle by replacing foreign grass with native plants, says a golf course guru. About 70 plant lovers from across Alberta came to the St.

Progressive Conservative incumbent Doug Horner will serve his fourth consecutive term as MLA for Spruce Grove-St. Albert, voters decided Monday.

Morinville's new town hall will be $665,000 over budget, council learned this week, and the town has little choice but to foot the bill. Town council received a report on the ongoing renovations to St. Germain Place (formerly Plaza) this week.