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City hall is on the hunt for five people to sit on a panel that will review how city council is compensated. Council struck the remuneration committee Tuesday. The group will include five members at large from St.

Want to volunteer and give back to the community, but don’t know how to get involved? The St. Albert Community Information & Volunteer Centre has many volunteer opportunities to choose from and can help find the right fit for you.

St. Albert Protestant Schools and the union representing roughly 300 unionized staff have reached a new labour agreement that provides 5.9 per cent in raises over two years.

Local school divisions agree — the proposed Education Act has the potential to be a very good thing once it finally rolls out. The act, Bill 18, was introduced in the legislature this week by Education Minister Dave Hancock.

Several city councillors want to read the fine print about a proposed clean-tech and sports village development before deciding whether to give the project its first green light. Coun.

The success of a five-minute check that can be administered to one-year-olds to detect subtle signs of autism is leading to hopes it can someday become part of a routine checkup.

The new Education Act will be tabled for further review and tweaking, but on Wednesday Minister of Education Dave Hancock put it out for all to see.

Burundi is a small landlocked country that probably wouldn’t get any kind of attention if it weren’t for the fact that it is one of the 10 poorest nations in the world, one that’s suffered from devastating civil unrest and genocide

Voters have it easy on election day compared to Bill Wright. As a returning officer, he and his team will have to count about 94,000 ballots from 235 locations in the space of a few hours. And he'll probably love every minute.

For the second year in a row, the St. Valentine’s Day Hair Massacure has succeeded in raising more than $1 million.