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A Westlock-area man died Friday afternoon in a car accident in northeast Sturgeon County. Police believe the 28-year-old man was killed instantly when he collided with a stock trailer being hauled by a pick-up truck.

It could cost more than three-quarters of a million dollars to fix the chronically leaking sloped glass that’s a defining feature of St. Albert’s iconic city hall.

Students in the Mileage Club at Sturgeon Heights School celebrated a monumental feat last week — running 823 kilometres on their 200-metre track since the beginning of the school year. And they’re not finished yet.

Crown prosecutor Patricia Innes portrayed an Edmonton man as violent, aggressive and hostile as she argued to have him incarcerated indefinitely for a brutal assault against a St. Albert man last year.

After several days of back and forth, Sturgeon County councillors have narrowed in on a budget with a proposed property tax increase of 6.2 per cent.

City officials feel a new community standards bylaw is doing its job as a condemned property on Laval Drive shows signs of improvement. The vacant house at 12 Laval Dr.

In a closely split vote, Sturgeon County councillors agreed to a proposal last week that would dramatically increase taxes on vacant residential lots. The move is Coun. Tom Flynn’s brainchild and could add $158,000 to county coffers next year.

Butch was a six-week-old cold and scared little puppy when he first came to NASAP. He had been found sitting by the side of the road at midnight, shivering from the cold. How he got there will always be a mystery.

Morinville residents can expect a 3.5 per cent property tax increase next year based on the first draft of the 2011 budget.