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There will be pile-drivers aplenty in Morinville this summer now that town council has decided to allow pro wrestling into the new Community Cultural Centre.

The city is getting into the coffee shop business and it’s not just any coffee shop — it’s a Starbucks.

As if climbing Mount Kilimanjaro wasn’t a daunting enough prospect on its own, participants in an upcoming fundraiser were put through their paces at CFB Edmonton Monday.

Local stores that sell pipes and bongs are in city council’s crosshairs. The city is looking for ways to prohibit or regulate the sale of items used in the consumption of illegal drugs.

St. Albert is now a one-newspaper town after last week's closure of Saint City News. The weekly newspaper published its last issue June 24, ending more than a decade of head-to-head competition with the Gazette .

The developer of Rampart Avenir will continue to pursue its project, even after St. Albert city council decided to require that the residential project contain 20 per cent commercial development.

Prairie mud was the undoing for a St. Albert man when the stolen truck he was driving got stuck in it, leading to an eight-month jail sentence. Mitchell Wickstrom, 22, pleaded guilty to a single count of possession of stolen property.

Only one teacher will be laid off in St. Albert next year but the effects of job losses due to employee retirements will have an impact on classrooms in both the Catholic and Protestant school systems. In the Greater St.

An online survey suggests that nearly 20 per cent of St. Albert residents don’t have access to a family doctor. Of 613 people who answered an online survey, 493 had a doctor and 120 didn’t. The City of St.

With a rosier financial picture than the government expected, opposition parties called this week for increased education funding so school boards don’t have to resort to teacher layoffs.