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Dar Schwanbeck can’t understand why councillors have slashed his agency’s funding in half for 2012 when he says there is so much more they could do that would benefit St. Albert’s economic base.

The RCMP will be getting one more sergeant and the city one more speed-on-green camera despite a hard push from administration for councillors to rethink their decisions.

Grey is in. Pink is out – at least it's out in St. Albert's latest crop of showhomes where the walls are predominantly grey or charcoal coloured, the trim is white and the floors are dark brown.

A W.D. Cuts teacher has been disciplined after parents complained about a sexually suggestive video shown to a Grade 7 class. Media reports suggest that a parent complained to the principal of W.D.

Councillors will want to look their best as of Monday as their viewing audience could potentially grow to include the entire wired world. Starting Dec. 5, council's regular Monday meetings will be web streamed live on the City of St. Albert website.

Their marketing/recording studio is tucked away in an industrial park, not the most likely place to find such a business, but that certainly hasn't prevented two local residents from producing a product that is earning them a human rights award. R.J.

Building affordable housing at Big Lake Pointe is one thing, but determining just who can find the rent money to live there is quite another. Big Lake Pointe got a kick-start last month thanks to a $6.8-million federal/provincial grant.

The St. Albert RCMP detachment is in mourning after learning that one of its former officers was killed while working at a new posting in Quebec. Const. Vincent “Vinnie” Roy was killed Thursday afternoon in Quebec.

New rules for buses make it illegal for St. Albert Transit to cross the Anthony Henday into Edmonton, says Sturgeon County's mayor, and he wants the province to fix them.

When the image on the screen in city council chambers changed to show the tax-o-meter at the end of budget deliberations Thursday night, it showed a number of 2.