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A 31-year-old man from the Edmonton area was killed Sunday afternoon when his vehicle was involved in a collision with a freight train.

It’s been a pretty good week at the St. Albert Food Bank, and it keeps getting better. On Monday, the local community service agency received a provincial Community Initiatives Program grant for $54,562.

What would Girl Guides be without leaders to guide them? That’s the question that local representatives are asking themselves these days. As the three Girl Guides districts in St.

Edmonton-St. Albert Conservative MP Brent Rathgeber said he expects the federal government will have to be flexible in dealing with possibly shifting economic times as the fall session of Parliament is set to open.

Ed Stelmach sat down with Gazette reporter Ryan Tumilty last week to discuss his nearly 25 years in politics and his accomplishments during his nearly five years at the helm of the Tory government. Read the related story here

Gary Mar took a big step toward becoming the next premier of Alberta Saturday, garnering a commanding lead on the first ballot of the Progressive Conservative leadership race, while Spruce Grove-Sturgeon-St. Albert MLA Doug Horner placed third.

With weeks or possibly even days left in his career in politics, Premier Ed Stelmach has trouble remembering what first brought him to public life.

According to the organization that teaches people how to save lives, nobody does it better than we do. The Lifesaving Society of Alberta and the Northwest Territories presented St. Albert with five first-place awards last week.

St. Albert Transit honoured two of its workers Thursday for helping a woman in distress.

Photo radar will soon be a thing of the past in Strathcona County, but it remains to be seen if St. Albert will follow suit.