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It’s possible to turn up the heat at the same time as you turn down your fuel costs if you have an energy-efficient fireplace.

It all started with a few rocks and gems. Luc Guillemette picked them up for his girlfriend Joan at their first date and turned them into a piece of jewelry.

A big idea for a small satellite has earned a local science team an international award. The University of Alberta’s AlbertaSat-1 team received the International Academy of Astronautics Award at the second annual Mission Idea Contest held Oct.

St. Albert has a problem – a 181,822-tonne problem, to be exact. St. Albert's environmental master plan commits the city to getting its residential greenhouse gas emissions to six per cent below what they were in 2008 by 2020.

A St. Albert gas station employee will serve the next six months under house arrest, followed by another six months with a curfew, after she pleaded guilty to stealing cash and products from the store.

James van Damme, former candidate for St. Albert city council, appeared in St. Albert Provincial Court Monday to face two counts of uttering threats and one count of breaching a protection order.

When it comes to bringing gifts of food at Christmas, the name to remember isn’t Santa Claus. It’s the St. Albert Kinettes.

The mortar is crumbling, the bricks are unsettling and the roof is leaking. That's what the sign for People for the Steeple reads beside the doors of St. Jean Baptiste Parish in Morinville.

When the weather begins to grow cold, individuals turn to supplemental forms of heat for a variety of reasons.

NAIT is honouring its top 50 alumni of the past five decades and one of them is none other than Mayor Nolan Crouse. Released earlier this week, the list is a compilation of successful individuals who have graduated from NAIT in the last 50 years.