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The city will end 2009 on a high note with a $1.3-million operating surplus. The operating surplus is a result of extra revenue from development permits, emergency dispatch service through the fire department, and Servus Credit Union Place.

It’s now free to download Alberta’s statutes. St. Albert MLA Ken Allred is happy with the change because he’s spent a year asking for it.

There’s only one thing to see during this year’s spring legislature sitting and that’s the budget, said Alberta Liberal leader David Swann.

City council has opted to leave residential lot sizes as is for now, despite requests by some homebuilders to allow smaller lots in St. Albert. Members of council recently went behind closed doors to review lot mix ratios in St.

Local schools boards will dip into reserves to pay for an arbitrated teacher salary increase but expect reimbursement from the province in the next budget year. Alberta Education announced Wednesday an arbitrator had decided teachers should get a 5.

The agency that provides free counselling to people experiencing violence at home got a boost from the local chapter of a non-profit women's organization.

A new study suggests that in terms of air pollution, Alberta’s oilsands aren’t that hard on the environment. Alberta’s oilsands are often criticized for their effects on the north’s air, land and water.

Tickets for this year’s highly anticipated Camp fYrefly Gala Wine Tasting and Silent Auction went on sale Tuesday but every single one was snapped up by Thursday.

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Patrick O’Sullivan is feeling a bit more breeze as he skates down the ice these days. The Edmonton Oilers right winger spent Tuesday afternoon getting his hair bleached and dyed pink before having it all shaved off.