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Two high profile and long-time businesspeople in St. Albert were recently given a prestigious award from a local service club. Art and Joan Jenkins, owners and operators of four Tim Hortons franchises in St.

Morinville RCMP arrested a young man last week in connection with a fire that was deliberately set and destroyed a home in Cardiff Echoes.

Burlesque isn’t generally associated with seriousness.

Council has put all capital planning decisions on hold until it hears back about the seniors' club's plans for a new community centre this fall.

Caroline Parkinson runs a day home in St. Albert. On any given weekday, children aged a few months to a few years old tear around her home for up to eight hours. She delivers flyers in her Lacombe Park neighbourhood twice a week.

Council has set its sights on attracting new doctors to St. Albert to help alleviate an ongoing shortage.

The man charged in the vicious assault of an Edmonton Transit driver is one step closer to being declared a dangerous offender.

Members of a citizen committee that reviewed council pay and perks a few years ago say any new plans to scrutinize council salaries should be done with more community input.

Local member of Parliament Brent Rathgeber said the cost of a new justice bill, which eliminates the practice of two-for-one credit for pre-trial custody, will not cost $5 billion as the parliamentary budget officer suggested this week.

The division between the two provincial constituencies that divide St. Albert should remain as is, suggests the final report issued Thursday by the Electoral Boundaries Commission. Currently, most of the city is within the St. Albert constituency.