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The federal government jumped into St. Albert's 150th anniversary celebrations this week by giving local organizers a hefty grant. Edmonton-St.

The address is still 70 Arlington Dr. but the name is now Aurora Place. Habitat for Humanity Edmonton unveiled the new name Wednesday afternoon at the future site of a 30-unit duplex development in St. Albert's Akinsdale neighbourhood.

The St. Albert and District Chamber of Commerce has dropped its request to formally rename the city’s downtown as the Perron District.

St. Albert RCMP got the OK to boost its ranks by hiring two file reviewers but will have to squeeze the new workers into a converted storage room as they await a decision on money for extra space.

A physician who treated 13-year-old Samantha Martin in the months before her death raised new possibilities for the girl’s sudden cardiac arrest but could provide no concrete answers. Dr.

In 1995, Terry Gibson, an archaeologist and senior manager at Western Heritage in St. Albert was called out to Bodo, a small hamlet south of Provost where an oil company had stumbled across something unusual.

The city wants to be friends with its residents, Facebook friends that is. Council agreed to have the city set up a Facebook page for news and events.

Canada will fall about 75 per cent short of the greenhouse gas reduction targets it set at Copenhagen unless it makes more cuts, according to new data.

The city is looking for another senior manager after Bob Treidler announced his resignation. Treidler, 43, began his seven-year city tenure as director of corporate strategy and business management.

The city's new priorities reflect both a continuation of action the city is already taking and a combination of ideas from the new council elected last October.