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Vanessa Peynenburg is off to Toronto this week, but not for a family trip or any kind of summer vacation or even just sightseeing before she prepares herself to start her high school graduation year. The 17-year-old St.

This week Alberta Venture Magazine released its 2011 list of “Alberta’s 50 Most Influential People” and four — eight per cent — of the movers and shakers in this province hail from St. Albert.

What are four simple ingredients for a fun summer evening? Try tasty food, good beer and wine, entertaining singers and a visual feast of art and crafts. Once again Edmonton’s Countryside Taste of Summer country cuisine returns to St.

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.