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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.

St. Albertans looking to get some strategies to deal with stress, anxiety and depression may find benefit in the Nurturing Opportunities for Wellness program at the St. Albert Community Village this month.

Yvonne Irnich dips a blender the size of a jackhammer into a bucket full of milk, salt, sugar, coffee and goodness. “For strong women,” she jokes, as she manhandles the powerful device.

The parking lot at St. Albert Centre was the last place where I expected to go down memory lane. But that’s what happened one recent, hot and sunny afternoon, as I headed to the mall to chat with the owners of a new food truck in town.