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The Alberta Competitiveness council announced 18 moves this week it hopes will keep the provincial economy humming and bring more investment and jobs to the province.

The high-tech focus of St. Albert business parks could be cast aside in favour of restaurants, warehouses and veterinary clinics under changes proposed by St. Albert’s economic development advisory committee (SAEDAC.

Pledging to bring his experience to build a competitive Alberta Liberal Party, Edmonton MLA Hugh MacDonald announced his plan to run for the party leadership this week.

React with your heart but act with your head. That’s the message of warning offered by the provincial government to citizens who feel compelled to help the displaced residents of Slave Lake.

And so ends the long winter of our discontent, tree-lovers — the forest has returned to Boudreau Road. City crews took the axe to about 58 large poplar trees along Boudreau this winter.

The St. Albert Public Library is boycotting e-books published by industry giant HarperCollins to protest a lending limit the company imposed in March.

Using a political scandal of the not-too-distant past for inspiration, a Morinville man brought cookies to the provincial legislature to denounce what he called inaction on the town's ongoing secular school issue.

There will be no P3 arrangement for Ray Gibbon Drive. The project doesn’t qualify for a federal program called P3 Canada because it’s already been planned and engineered, city council learned Monday night.

No living soul can resist the toe-tapping beat of a MĂ©tis fiddle, according to Calvin Vollrath. Vollrath, a renowned fiddle player from St.

Life has a way of throwing you curveballs when you least expect them. Just ask Cole Ridd. The 10-year-old St. Albert boy loves baseball, hockey, swimming, tennis, football and basketball, among numerous other sports and activities.