Local News

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.

The Sturgeon Valley needs about $52 million in upgrades for future growth, says a report to county council, and the county might have to more than double its levies in order to get the money.

After sitting quietly in a shed west of Dapp for many years, unnoticed and unknown by most, and with an interesting story behind it, an old threshing machine has found a new home at the Canadian Tractor Museum in Westlock.

City council gave its unanimous blessing to a three per cent increase to most user fees on Monday night, a move that will generate almost $700,000 for the city in 2013.

A man who pleaded guilty to assaulting a pregnant woman received an 18-month suspended sentence Monday in St. Albert Provincial Court.

An Onoway woman will spend her weekends behind bars for injuring a woman nearly two years ago in an alcohol-fuelled collision. Colleen G. Stackhouse, 50, was handed a 90-day jail sentence to be served on weekends.

The first debate of the proposed new animal bylaw is four months away but already councillors are marking their territory over whether or not the city should have a mandatory leash bylaw for dogs.

Two Paul Kane chefs are back from Brazil this week bearing gold medals and wild tales of cooking – tales that include ducks, presidents and the rock band KISS.