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Negotiations aimed at averting a nationwide postal strike were set to continue over the weekend, but an interruption to mail delivery is still very much a possibility.

The city will move toward restricting ground-floor businesses in the downtown to retail operations and require professional services to locate on upper floors.

Vandals struck St. Albert’s Catholic cemetery at some point last weekend, knocking over four gravestones in an apparent random act. The toppling at the cemetery on St.

City council backtracked on a recent decision to spend $2.1 million to renovate the Hemingway Centre for the RCMP by deciding instead to investigate the cost of upgrading the downtown building for use by city or community groups.

Teacher layoffs are coming in the Greater St. Albert Catholic School Division as the jurisdiction deals with a projected deficit for next year.

It took 45 years, but St. Albert finally has an official tree, shrub and flower. City council voted unanimously this week to make the Scots pine, highbush cranberry and petunia the official coniferous tree, shrub and flower of St. Albert.

A wayward deer provided a smash thriller at Grandin Theatre Tuesday afternoon. For reasons clear only to the animal, the deer jumped straight through a large glass window, giving customers and staff a shock.

Researchers are blaming the growth of the Internet with an “alarming” growth in the number of instances of prescription drug abuse as web access makes drugs easier to obtain and “rogue pharmacies” make them more readily availa

St. Albert may have a reputation for being highly taxed, but the side of the equation that’s not often told is the value that residents get for their dollar. That was the message that Mayor Nolan Crouse shared with members of the St.

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