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A St. Albert cocaine dealer who was caught in the act by RCMP will spend the next 30 months in a federal penitentiary. Michael Royal Dickson, 31, pleaded guilty last month to drug trafficking and obstructing police.

Cold weather is being blamed for a water-main break that cut water service for roughly 17 hours on a Sturgeon Heights crescent. City crews restored water service to Sable Crescent shortly after 2 p.m. Wednesday.

Six times a week Philippa Thomas heads out from her Cochrane home with her dog Gaffer to go for 12-kilometre walks through woods, meadows and cow pastures.

It's a big step for Alberta, and a tale of success for Sturgeon County. Last Wednesday, Sturgeon County's Economic Development Board fall business breakfast celebrated the sanctioning of a $5.7-billion Phase One bitumen refinery in Sturgeon County.

A recent environmental grant should help local students learn more about plants, says a local researcher, and could help the city save money on gardening. City council unanimously approved $22,219.

Winter will be a frosty one. November has been a truly cold month in St. Albert and the weather doesn’t look to be warming up anytime soon, said Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips. In the past month, St.

We hear a lot of calls on the radio scanner here at the Gazette — fires, crashes, the occasional robbery — but one of my favourites is the moose on the loose. When one of these huge mammals shows up in town, action is sure to follow.

Barely holding back her tears, Susan Grant slowly climbed the stage Tuesday morning to receive the keys to her new home.

The number of injury and non-injury car accidents as well as the total number of Criminal Code offences in St. Albert is continuing to drop in St. Albert, news Mayor Nolan Crouse finds encouraging.

A peewee hockey player has been suspended by the St. Albert Minor Hockey Association after multiple reports of racism surfaced this week.