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St. Albert city council made the right decision Monday when it chose to borrow $15.9 million and extend Ray Gibbon Drive from Giroux Road to Villeneuve Road. Ray Gibbon Drive is slated to replace St.

Driving around St. Albert, you can’t help but feel sometimes that you’re a fish in a barrel. That’s because speed enforcement is more about exploiting the vulnerable than it is about promoting safety.

It has been said before, but it bears repeating: organizers of the annual Rock’n August classic car festival deserve a pat on the back for another job well done. With this being the festival’s 15th year, as well as St.

On Wednesday, Aug. 3, the Gazette published an editorial cartoon that pondered the future of the federal NDP party now that its leader Jack Layton is engaged in a battle with cancer.

A letter to the prime minister sent by St. Albert’s mayor shows an embarrassing lack of judgment on the mayor’s part.

Just when you think you have all the answers, they go and change the questions.

Another announcement of millions of provincial dollars going toward carbon capture and storage begs the question what the Alberta government is doing to prepare for a post-carbon world.

It was over a plate of bacon this past week that the leader of the Alberta Party tried to prove his party and its latest ideas were no ham-and-eggers.

Let’s say you’re a homeowner and your roof is leaking. When it stops raining, you go up on the roof with a tar brush and patch the hole. Problem solved. However, a couple of days later, it starts raining again.

With their nomination papers filed and $40,000 deposits firmly in the hands of the Progressive Conservative Party, it only took two days for all six leadership hopefuls to start piling on their leader and the decisions he has made.