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Extending the terms of Alberta’s elected senators is a mistake that marks a retreat from a positive stance on democracy, said Link Byfield, a resident of the Riviere Qui Barre area who is third in line for one of Alberta’s six Senate seat

The shock quickly wore off but Ireen Slater was clearly surprised when she realized she won the Roy Financial Services Volunteer Citizen of the Year Award on Saturday morning.

St. Albert will host more than 200 delegates later this week at a national conference on youth development. The Thrive Canada National Conference on Positive Youth Development takes place this week at the St.

A Sturgeon County resident has won the highest honour bestowed by the Alberta 4-H. Erin Shaw, an 18-year-old university student from the Gibbons area won the Premier’s Award Monday in Olds after a gruelling selection process.

Hello, my name is Sweetie and I definitely live up to my name! I am extremely affectionate and gentle and my favourite thing is a lap to curl up on. A lady never discloses her age, but the folks at NASAP think I am between five and eight years old.

Teams of builders will be participating in a unique design competition on Friday evening and the real winners get to eat the bricks. It's the third Canstruction event in Edmonton, a fundraiser that is sponsored by the Canadian Progress Club.

What a difference 14 days can make. A few weeks ago, farmers like Walter Tappauf were looking at dust-dry soil. The land was the driest it had been in years, he said, and many farmers were preparing for a miserable growing season.

Somehow I cannot reconcile the Gazette front page headline on April 24, "Riel Pond fish kill looms", with the city's environmental policy as advertised in the same edition of the newspaper as part of the city's 2009 Report on the Environmen

Councillors will get a full breakdown of city fee charges at budget time in the fall, however some rates will not require annual council approval.

The April 28 Environment File said, “the swamp sparrow is usually seen and not heard, as was the case at this event.