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From costumes to entertainment to offering family fun, some St. Albert businesses are seeing sales surge in advance of Oct. 31. “It seems busy.

St. Albert's emergency services will be out in full force on Monday night as ghouls and goblins go out for Halloween. Fire Chief Ray Richards said all of the city's crews will be out on the streets looking to be visible.

Alberta would get six new seats in the House of Commons under new legislation introduced there on Thursday, a move that local MP Brent Rathgeber says will give the province a fairer balance in the house.

The Conservative government moved on another campaign promise this week, introducing a bill that will kill the controversial long-gun registry.

An apple a day might keep the doctor away but Halloween apples are a different story altogether.

Grade 12 students in the St. Albert Protestant system had more difficulty passing diploma exams last year than their Catholic counterparts.

The Sturgeon hospital emergency room is seeing an increasing number of patients languishing in its beds waiting for admission. Dr.

Yannick Tona says he didn't know his life would change forever on April 22, 1994. He was sitting with his family at his grandmother's house in southern Rwanda, he recalls, when a mob of 400 people ran down the street.

Alberta may soon have tougher impaired driving laws in line with ones currently in place in British Columbia where the province has seen a 50-per-cent decrease in alcohol-related fatal crashes. B.C.

To the casual observer, it seems as if the Sturgeon Community Hospital has been a construction site forever.