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A shortage of new RCMP recruits means the city won’t be getting two more RCMP officers in 2013, as the force had requested.

LRT study Coun. Len Bracko wants the city to spend more than $500,000 for a study on what route a future LRT line through St. Albert might take.

City residents supported a bigger Servus Credit Union Place this week at an open house, but were split over how they wanted it to grow. About 63 people attended an open house Wednesday to discuss plans for a proposed expansion to that facility.

Local educators hailed this week’s passage of the Education Act, but said the bill’s sweeping changes won’t really become apparent until we see its regulations. Alberta legislators passed Bill 8, the Education Act, on Nov. 19.

The North West upgrader could not only bring new jobs and money to Sturgeon County. St. Albert may also snatch a piece of the diesel cake. “Anything like that that comes into our area can only be seen as beneficial.

City council will hold one more town hall in 2013 and might even offer up a hamburger or two in the process.

City council unanimously defeated one of its own bylaw amendments aimed at curbing the practice of parking RVs and truck-and-trailer combinations in commercial parking lots while also outlawing the practice of parking vehicles with for-sale signs on

St. Albert got a little closer to China this week after a delegation of Chinese educators toured three local schools. Four principals and a school board member from China’s Beibei School District toured St.

Robbery A 19-year-old man is facing two robbery charges after two separate attacks last week. Police were called to a home in the Akinsdale Gardens townhouse complex on June 28 around 11 p.m.

Electors in next October’s municipal election will be able to vote first thing in the morning and, if they wish, use special ballots.