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The St. Albert RCMP could end up increasingly with one less supervisor because of council's irritation over its budgeting practices, a feeling that was plainly evident during budget deliberations Thursday night.

Having already announced an across-the-board fare increase, St. Albert Transit now plans to end its free Saturday service in 2012 and increase service in Northridge. Otherwise it’s business as usual for the city’s fleet.

The city is taking the first steps toward a new deal that could keep it in the ambulance business for another nine years. The St.

The walls and the floors are fantastic but it's the hand dryers in the newly renovated bathrooms that blow me away. The St. Albert Youth Community Centre celebrated its grand reopening on Thursday evening.

Volunteers strapped on helmets and hammers Friday as crews got to work on one of St. Albert’s biggest affordable housing projects.

Non-resident businesses operating in St. Albert will now pay a hefty fee to do so.

The students at Ronald Harvey Elementary School are starting to use words like ‘synergize’ and ‘proactive,’ thanks to a new school-wide program based on a popular self-help book.

The city’s controversial Starbucks franchise opened in Servus Credit Union Place Friday morning, looking to pump more revenue into the money-losing facility even as there were rumblings of both good and bad news on the sponsorship front.

Local business owners are steamed over a council move to hike fees for portable signs by about 437 per cent, with one advocate saying it could lead to empty stores on St. Albert Trail.

Sturgeon School Division approved a motion Wednesday that allows for the possibility of prayer in all its public schools, a move some parents said leaves them right back at the start of the whole debate about religion in Sturgeon Heights School.