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“Pay the workers for the work they do!” The battle cry of more than a dozen disgruntled rural and suburban mail carriers could be heard as they blocked contract workers from entering the Canada Post distribution centre at Hebert Road in S

It did not take long for dollars and cents to emerge as a motivating factor at the Alberta Utilities Commission's public hearings on the Heartland Transmission Project.

Robert Tappauf's family has farmed the lands in around St. Albert for decades, selling grain to the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) for many of them. He's one of many local famers that want the board gone.

As winter turns to spring and snow turns to water, several roads in Sturgeon County are closed due to flooding, including a major highway. Secondary highway 825 between highways 37 and 643 is closed and drivers are being advised to use Hwy.

Angry with a government he says isn’t listening, Sturgeon County Mayor Don Rigney has put his name forward for the Wildrose Alliance nomination in the Athabasca-Redwater constituency.

There are no easy ways to get farmers back on their feet, say agriculturalists, but there's plenty governments could do to help new farmers break into the business.

The competition will be strong for this year’s Morinville Citizen of the Year Award, according to representatives from the Lions Club, the group that has been hosting the award for the last 42 years.

The province has kicked in another $4 million to reimburse the city for the first two stages of Ray Gibbon Drive.

A St. Albert ski club went solar this week after it unveiled a wall’s worth of solar panels on its new shed. A small group of dignitaries gathered at the new St. Albert Nordic Ski Club (STANSKI) storage shed in Kingswood Park Monday.

In January the city hosted the Continental Cup of Curling, an international sporting event that required about 800 volunteers. The following month, St.