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Perhaps they should change the name of the city’s Large Junk Drop-Off Event to the City Mattress Round-Up. Because according to Christian Benson, St.

Coun. Ben Van De Walle has resigned from Morinville town council, prompting the town council to pursue a Sept. 20 byelection.

Local farmers say they plan to break out the champagne today as they celebrate the end of the Canadian Wheat Board's single-desk policy. The federal government set Aug. 1 as the official end date for the wheat board's single-desk marketing policy.

Wheat and oat growers now have two new commissions in Alberta that should help them develop better crops for their fields.

It was closing on midnight Saturday when firefighters were alerted to a raging house fire in Sturgeon County just east of St. Albert. Crews responded from Namao, Morinville and Bon Accord, battling the fire until six the next morning.

The Arts and Heritage Foundation is rallying the troops in advance of an Aug. 27 city council meeting that could decide the future of the organization. In a letter dated July 26 and signed by the foundation's board of trustees, the non-profit is calling on all its members to make their voices heard either before or at the meeting to help save the organization.

Damage is pegged at $1.3 million after fire destroyed a home in Upper Manor Estates in Sturgeon County on Saturday night. No one was in the home when Sturgeon County emergency services responded to a call from a neighbour at 11:37 p.m.

The St. Albert drug unit arrested two Edmonton men and seized cash, cocaine and a Ford Explorer in two separate investigations earlier this month.

Eleven seconds in St. Albert cost an Edmonton woman $178, after two of the city’s photo radar cameras caught her in quick succession.

Soccer and rugby fans are moving to temporary homes this week now that the city has started to dig up the fields at Riel Park. City crews started digging up the soccer and rugby fields in Riel Park last week. The work is part of a roughly $32.