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The city has acquired more environmental reserve along the north edge of the Sturgeon River near Ray Gibbon Drive.

It has been a pretty awful winter for snowfall, the worst in decades by many accounts. The city's street clearing budget has been thrown and obliterated like snowballs against a brick wall, with $2.65 million used up and still the flakes keep coming.

Housing starts in St. Albert and Morinville cooled last month but were not far from 2010 numbers, according to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). St.

If you listen closely enough, you can still hear the hum of stationary bikes coming from Bellerose Composite High School's main lobby.

Alberta's opposition parties banded together Friday to call on the province for a transparent inquiry into the province's health care system, just one day after the government announced a third-party review of emergency room delays and cancer care.

Many Albertans will have water on the brain next week as local activists gear up for World Water Day. March 22 is World Water Day, an annual event held by the United Nations to draw attention to the importance of freshwater.

City council hopes to get a heap of green ideas from a local committee this year on everything from trash to traffic lights. Council approved a list of priorities for the environmental advisory committee (EAC) at a meeting Monday.

Spending on St. Albert’s 150th anniversary celebrations is being trimmed by more than $100,000 and organizers will have to cut more if provincial grants don’t come through as hoped.

More than 600 students have pedalled their hearts out this week for Bellerose Composite High School's eighth annual bike-a-thon for cancer research.

A new emergency radio system designed to make it easier for police, fire and ambulance workers to talk to each other will roll out province-wide in 2014, the government announced last week.