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It may shock some young grasshoppers out there to realize there was once a time without video games. Imagination was our game.

A long-delayed strategy to increase the amount of major events in St. Albert has taken another step forward. Council on Monday approved a new vision and guiding principles that will guide city administration as it drafts a new hosting strategy.

Morinville Mayor Lloyd Bertschi is floating an idea that could cost him and every other mayor in the region their jobs. Bertschi broached the idea last week during a joint council meeting between Morinville and St.

Ambulance crews were quicker to respond to emergencies in 2009, however city hall cautioned against reading too much into the numbers.

Several local sports clubs kicked off another 20 years at Riel Recreation Park on Monday night. City council approved new $1 leases for the St. Albert Soccer Association, St. Albert Rugby Football Club, Kinsmen Club of St. Albert and St.

A story in the Feb. 24 Gazette provided the wrong date for the green tech symposium put on by the Alberta Council of Technologies. The conference starts Monday, March 1 at the Edmonton Mayfield Inn. For details call 1-866-241-7535.

After one week of the Winter Olympics, most viewers consider themselves experts in all sports, but the server at The Beerhunter does not yet know the difference between short- and long-track speed skating and it’s causing Ted Turgeon some anxie

Solar power and smart growth will go under the microscope next week as experts hold a public debate on green technologies.

Last year was another record one for babies in Alberta and the third consecutive record-setting year for births. There were 51,443 babies born last year, topping the prior records of 50,543 in 2008 and 48,589 in 2007. The 2009 total is 1.

City residents are invited to come out next week and take a sniff of several proposed designs for a future off-leash dog park on Levasseur Road. Three designs will be unleashed at an open house Wednesday night, between 5 and 8 p.m.