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The city will try to ease the transition to a new waste program by buying back unused garbage tags and allowing residents to drop off extra garbage at the recycle yard. The city is readying for a switch to automated curbside pickup next June.

Daniel Sundal spent the last 16 weeks in school, all the time with stars in his eyes. He wasn’t daydreaming though, just learning how to be the best emergency responder that he could be under the tutelage of some high-flying professors.

The St. Albert Nordic Ski Club (STANSKI) will be extending its reach into the Sturgeon Valley after Sturgeon County councillors gave them approval this week.

Sturgeon County councillors narrowly approved the county’s 2011 operating and capital budgets that will see residents hit with a 6.2 per cent property tax increase. Councillors voted four to three in favour of approving the budget. Couns.

Critics and researchers hope that an unprecedented team-up between Alberta's oilsands producers will speed up reclamation of Alberta's tailings ponds.

A St. Albert resident has taken over as Canadian deputy commander of a busy region in war-torn southern Afghanistan. Brig.-Gen.

Like most municipalities, St. Albert has an infrastructure deficit, but its assets are generally in good condition and the engineering department has made “significant headway” in addressing the gap.

Mitchell Hurst holds a tattered pink sheet of paper for his mother to view through the glass pane separating them in the Edmonton Remand Centre's visiting room.

Two students were sent to hospital Monday night following a school bus collision northwest of Legal.

It's Wednesday morning, and Melanie Smith is making some green soup with the kids. As twins five-year-old Jack and Lauren mix the ingredients together, she tries to convince Deacon, one year, not to drink the soap.