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Faithful users of Fountain Park’s aquatic facilities will have to make a splash elsewhere this holiday season. The recreation facility will close its doors for approximately seven days from the evening of Dec.

A provincial grant should spark jobs and quench fires in Alexander next year. The province announced its second round of FireSmart grants last week.

After several weeks of tweaking, trimming and debating, city council has followed through on its promise of delivering a municipal property tax increase of no more than three per cent.

I had to blink twice before the reality set in. I didn’t believe what my eyes were seeing.

Future renovations to the St. Albert Senior Citizens’ Club could sink along with the possibility of other downtown development if the city incorporates revised flood plain elevations into its land-use bylaw.

The province has thrown open the doors to nuclear power despite evidence that more than half of Albertans want it banned altogether. The province released its long-awaited study on attitudes toward nuclear power Monday.

The weekend deep freeze wreaked havoc with a number of St. Albert and area school buses on Monday but area busing operations were back in business Tuesday. The severe cold knocked out 17 of 60 buses in St.

Using the credo that it is better to give than receive, the students and staff of the Greater St. Albert Catholic Regional School Division’s 17 schools have been preparing for Christmas in the most altruistic ways.

The local RCMP could be looking at hiring more officers or changing their approach to policing after a report discovered officers are spending too much time running from call to call.

Lately when Isabelle Skjersven talks about what it’s like to work at the Morinville Food Bank, she may put an extra emphasis on the first syllable. “More” is what the food bank has been coping with in terms of demand.