Local News

With thousands of people flocking to St. Albert for the World Financial Group Continental Cup, last weekend was a good one for local businesses who saw increased revenue thanks to the well-televised international event.

It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been smoking — it’s never too late for you to stop. That’s the message from the Canadian Lung Association (CLA) in celebration of National Non-Smoking Week.

Edmonton soldiers waged a different type of war this week as part of the largest military sports tournament in western Canada.

Did you have a good time at the Continental Cup? That might be because eight per cent of you were drunk. The Continental Cup curling championship wrapped up Sunday at Servus Credit Union Place.

Ending a nearly four-decade career in firefighting, Sturgeon County's first fire chief Bart Clark took off his boots and hung up his hat last week.

St. Albert took the first step toward designating the white spruce forest a municipal historic resource Monday by formally agreeing to notify the property owner of this intention.

Developers of two neighbouring projects that contain two former landfills in St. Albert's northwest corner won't have to clean up the dumps before being proceeding with land-use changes.

Students in the St. Albert Protestant school system will get a more balanced approach to literacy this year thanks to cash from the province.

A fatality inquiry got under way this week into the 2006 death of a 13-year-old girl who died shortly after she left a Morinville-area foster home.

Satisfaction with Servus Credit Union Place is at its highest level since the facility opened but customers still want improved change rooms, larger fitness facilities and more program options.