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After several days of back and forth, Sturgeon County councillors have narrowed in on a budget with a proposed property tax increase of 6.2 per cent.

In a closely split vote, Sturgeon County councillors agreed to a proposal last week that would dramatically increase taxes on vacant residential lots. The move is Coun. Tom Flynn’s brainchild and could add $158,000 to county coffers next year.

City officials feel a new community standards bylaw is doing its job as a condemned property on Laval Drive shows signs of improvement.

Butch was a six-week-old cold and scared little puppy when he first came to NASAP. He had been found sitting by the side of the road at midnight, shivering from the cold. How he got there will always be a mystery.

Morinville residents can expect a 3.5 per cent property tax increase next year based on the first draft of the 2011 budget.

St. Albert Coun. Cam MacKay turned heads at Monday’s council meeting by reeling off an unprecedented list of budget cuts.

The program has been around for more than a century but this year it’s facing one of its toughest battles to date. The Christmas Seals campaign delivers decorative stamps for your holiday cards as an enticement to pledge your financial support.

Finding out that her parents had given a child up for adoption seven years before she was born came as a big surprise to St. Albert resident Chantelle Brimmage when she found out earlier this year. The mother of two was given the news on Oct.

A city councillor from the City of Mount Pearl, Nfld., is visiting St. Albert this week in the hopes of learning something. Coun. Lucy Stoyles will spend a few days meeting with members of council and the chamber of commerce.

Staffers at St. Albert’s Gemport had a surprise customer last week: a black widow spider. Store co-owner Joan Guillemette says she bought a bag of grapes for last week’s Snowflake Festival and had asked her staff to wash them Friday.