Local News

Some beleaguered residents of Slave Lake just started making the long, slow drive back home yesterday.

With just days to go before the party’s leadership vote, the four Alberta Party leadership candidates made their last public pitches to party members at a forum Wednesday night.

A teacher at Elmer Gish School is being honoured with a provincial Excellence in Teaching Award. Carolyn Hunter, who has spent the last three years of her 17-year career at Gish, will receive the award Saturday evening at a banquet in Edmonton.

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.