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Pack up a picnic and bring your camera because it’s time for an adventure this summer. A short 30-minute drive northeast of St. Albert can take you millions of years into the past.

The city of St. Albert will not have a repeat of a councillor being hired as city administrator, as happened in the case of former councillor Gilles Prefontaine, now that council has approved a new hiring policy. St.

The election of a new councillor has the mayor hopeful that council can learn to get along. Nolan Crouse urged council members on Monday to take the opportunity of Bob Russell’s election to see past old difficulties and work together.

By Kevin Ma The backhoes are busy at school sites across the city and county this month as crews race to get new classes built before summer is over.

A group of young volunteers has come up with an eye-catching way to raise the profile of their fundraiser. About 25 people took part in a flash mob at the St.

Alberta’s general minimum wage is going up Oct. 1, a move that the new NDP government vowed would come once it took office, but one causing mixed reaction among St. Albert businesses and minimum wage earners.

St. Albert RCMP have made an arrest following an armed robbery in the Riel Business Park last Tuesday night. Police responded to a call of an armed robbery at the Hughes car and truck wash on June 30 around 8 p.m.

It's summertime, and for hundreds of city students that means it's time to get a head start on school. More than a thousand St. Albert-area students celebrated the end of school this week by hopping right into summer school courses.

Food truck owners are not impressed with the city’s food truck pilot project.

You see it flying everywhere: over government buildings, over police stations, outside businesses and even on the lawns of the most patriotic among us.