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With the announcement this week of a shorter than expected legislative session, the province's education act will likely remain unchanged until at least next year.

A Northridge resident is trying to mobilize his neighbours to fight back against city hall’s plans to build the third leg of Ray Gibbon Drive so close to their houses. Richard VanGrinsven has lived on Napoleon Crescent since 2007.

Cheers turned to confusion Friday when the province asked the Alberta Utilities Commission to suspend its work on the Heartland Transmission Project in the morning — only to tell them to resume it that afternoon.

Welcome to At Home, one of several new elements the Gazette will be introducing over the coming weeks. At Home will run each Saturday in the real estate section. It will cover anything and everything to do with our homes, inside and out.

There were workers on site at Habitat for Humanity's Aurora Place property Friday afternoon but no sign of the materials needed to pave the parking lot so construction of the first eight units along Arlington Drive can begin.

Some old adages about gardening may soon be tossed in the fall compost. St. Albert Botanic Park volunteers, who manage the city's biggest garden, are changing their ways.

An Akinsdale resident is raising a red flag over illegal dumping along a popular neighbourhood walk.

St. Albert firefighters discovered a deceased man inside a Pineview home on Friday afternoon. Firefighters were called to the home at 61 Pineridge Cr.

Alberta's legislature will open for business next week, but it won't be open long.

There are 128 days left until the athletes finally get to show us their moves. Until then, all organizers can do is make sure that there are enough people behind the scenes to keep everything running smoothly.