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A Spruce Grove company will handle St. Albert’s organic waste collection under a three-year contract the city announced Tuesday. Sandstone Enviro-Waste Services won the contract after a request for proposals.

A “clear and impartial survey” will be taken of parents in Morinville to determine how many would be interested in a secular education program, according to a letter Donna Hunter received from Education Minister Dave Hancock Thursday.

A new portable CT scanner at the Sturgeon Community Hospital will improve wait times and image quality compared to the unit it is replacing, according to hospital staff. “This is really upper-hand from what we had before.

I’m Squeak, a beautiful female brown and black tabby and this is my best buddy Jimmy, a handsome grey tabby. Jimmy and I have been together for our entire lives and I couldn’t imagine living without him.

St. Albert is the best place in Canada to raise children and the fifth best overall city to live in, according to rankings by the personal finance magazine Money Sense. Good access to day care and good job prospects were factors that helped St.

Welcome to Candidates' Corner, where you, the reader, get to grill federal candidates about the issues of the day. Twice a week during this election, the Gazette will be taking questions from members of the public and posing them to politicians.

Somewhere out there, people are already stretching their legs, limbering up in anticipation of the next edition of a special running event that will see teams take to the track for 12 hours straight.

Last week's federal budget put the economy at the centre of the federal election campaign. The Conservatives trumpeted themselves as prudent stewards, while opposition parties painted them as wasteful spenders.

There is still three feet of snow in the back yard, but gardening fever has already burrowed its way into St. Albert.

Independent MLA Raj Sherman told a St.