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The Alberta government is pledging to set up an arm’s-length agency with the power to review the deaths of any children in provincial care. The proposed Child and Family Services Council for Quality Assurance is going to get $1.

A provincial cabinet minister is concerned about the way St. Albert and municipalities across the province are using photo radar. Minister of Employment and Immigration Thomas Lukaszuk first raised the concern on Twitter earlier this week.

The engraving is just a little deeper than the others on the rose-coloured memorial. The carving is a little more precise and the newly-exposed rock has 90 years less weathering than the other markings.

Sturgeon County council backed off on a simple change to how the lands near towns could be used after it became a lightning rod for opposition from local farmers.

Before the City of St. Albert brings its much-awaited voice to Facebook and Twitter next month, city administration want to know what they should be saying.

Morinville residents will have to hold their noses until November before they will be rid of that dog food smell, says the president of Champion Petfoods.

Oscar, Siamese cross, 6 to 8 years old Oscar is a wonderful mature (six- to eight-year-old) neutered male cat that came to NASAP from the Beaumont pound. He is a beautiful cream flame point Siamese cross.

An Edmonton company was fined $10,000 last week for improperly documented hazardous waste that they attempted to deliver to the Villeneuve sewage transfer station.

A St. Albert-based program that aims to get youths on probation back into the community got a boost last week from Edmonton Police Service.

It's hard to imagine roughing it in Hawaii, but that's exactly what 16 Bellerose Composite High School students did this summer when they hiked the Kalalau Trail on the Na Pali Coast.