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Sturgeon ER works on surge capacity

Sturgeon ER works on surge capacity

Staff at the Sturgeon Community Hospital have identified a number of additional beds they can use when the emergency department activates new overcapacity protocols that went into effect on Monday.
City names peninsula after Blodgett

City names peninsula after Blodgett

St. Albert's Mother Earth is getting a piece of the Earth named after her. The City of St. Albert announced last week it would dub the peninsula in Riel Pond as "Elke's Peninsula" in a ceremony this spring.
Budget clears final hurdle

Budget clears final hurdle

St. Albert city council gave the final stamp of approval to a 2.79 per cent municipal tax increase by unanimously approving the 2011 budget Monday night.
Legal bus driver calling it quits

Legal bus driver calling it quits

The 70-year old school bus driver who was charged with careless driving last week won’t be behind the wheel any longer.
Food bank handling the holiday rush

Food bank handling the holiday rush

Everything is humming along smoothly at the St. Albert Food Bank and Community Village days before Christmas. “It’s not horrible,” says Suzan Krecsy when talking about the situation of the supply and demand for food hampers.
Health Monitor

Health Monitor

Children who live in apartment buildings where nobody smokes are at a much higher risk of exposure to secondhand smoke than children who lived in detached housing where nobody smokes, according to a new study in the journal Pediatrics.
Life sentence for Morinville slaying

Life sentence for Morinville slaying

Common-law husband pleaded guilty to the vicious beating death of Jessica Ryan Martel
NASAP

NASAP

I'm Ruby and I'm a spayed, female dilute torti with white. I'm around 10 to 12 months old. My coat is medium length and I have a very fluffy tail. I showed up at the Beaumont pound with several puncture wounds in my lower back that were infected.
Local hypnotherapist helps out humane society

Local hypnotherapist helps out humane society

A local social worker and certified clinical hypnotherapist wants to give people the gift they can give themselves over and over again and help some special animals at the same time.
Good Samaritan douses blaze

Good Samaritan douses blaze

When your car is on fire you take help wherever you can find it, and for St. Albert resident Brad Brodeur, that happened to be the local Goodwill donation centre. The 41-year-old investment advisor was driving on St.
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