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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.

MLA Ken Allred took aim at video lottery terminals (VLTs) this week, questioning whether the crown corporation that runs them is being upfront with the public about how the machines work, how the finances are reported and what the true cost is to the

Bus drivers see a lot of things that many other people don’t. They see people in need, trying to squeeze by from paycheque to paycheque.

Not talking for the whole school day was the hardest part for Megan Stefner, who volunteered to play the role of a ghost Friday at Richard Fowler Catholic Junior High School.

A significant number of prostate biopsy tests performed this past summer at the Royal Alexandria Hospital were inaccurate, leading to possible misdiagnoses and mistreatment.

Everybody knows that Santa Claus doesn’t work alone. Sure, he takes all of the glory on Christmas Eve, but there is a factory full of elves working behind the scenes to make sure that everything comes together.

Only 24 people took the opportunity to vote Wednesday at the advance poll in the byelection to fill a vacant seat on the Protestant school board. Traditionally the voter turnout for trustee byelections in St. Albert is small.

When Daren Frick, an assistant warden at the Edmonton Max, found he needed a $5,000 dental implant, he went looking for alternatives to what was offered in Alberta.

Two new bumps added to Morinville's new town hall mean that its renovations won't be finished by the end of the year as planned. Members of the media toured St. Germain Plaza on Wednesday to check in on the building's renovations. Budgeted at $3.

The city's finances for 2011 continue to bounce from deficit to surplus to zero due in part to unexpected snowclearing expenses and paying out two severance packages, council heard Monday night in its third quarter report.