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Councillors were happy they could load the 2012 budget onto iPads and overall were satisfied with the budget process that concluded last month, but in the future they’d prefer no one in the gallery be allowed to carry guns.

Two local mayors are going head to head in a race to become the first-ever elected chair of the Capital Region Board.

A prompt guilty plea and the return of the more than $3,000 she stole from a local non-profit group should allow a local woman to avoid a criminal record. Kelly Lynn Cooper, 40, pleaded guilty to a single count of theft in St.

Enbridge's Northern Gateway pipeline will travel right through the Alberta Industrial Heartland, but the current plan doesn't call for the bitumen coming through to be upgraded on its way.

A revised community capital program that provides funding for not-for-profit agencies will go to St. Albert's community services advisory board (CSAB) for review despite some reservations from councillors.

A 14-year-old girl was taken to hospital after being struck crossing 100th Avenue in Morinville last week. Police and ambulance responded last Wednesday when the girl was struck in a marked crosswalk on 100th avenue near 99 Street.

Westlock — Members of the province's Property Rights Task Force were greeted with an overwhelming cry of "repeal the bills, repeal the bills, repeal the bills" at an open house meeting Tuesday night in Westlock.

Education Minister Thomas Lukaszuk has promised quick action on the new 10-point education plan he announced Tuesday in Edmonton. The initiatives will be put in place immediately before the next legislative session in the spring.

St. Albert's John Farlinger has had a multi-faceted career that has taken him to the Arctic, to football fields throughout Canada and to see the world as a travel agency owner. But over and over he repeats one phrase and it's a telling one.

Ever wonder whether the weather will be wet here or not? For most people, talking about the weather is synonymous with chitchat, the easiest way of holding conversation between two people who have nothing in common or nothing interesting to say.