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The leader of the Alberta Party is optimistic that his party will score some seats in the Legislature when the next provincial election is held.

To recognize the efforts of hospital staff and volunteers, Jan. 24 to 31 has been officially proclaimed as Sturgeon Community Hospital Week.

A new family-run restaurant is opening soon. Toast Breakfast & Lunch will be located at #6B, 11 Bellerose Dr. The owners previously announced on their Facebook page that they will be opening in mid- to late January.

St. Albert residents can hear how they can build a greener botanic arts city next week as Alberta builders hold their first green homes summit. About 100 people will be at the Royal Glenora Club in Edmonton this Jan.

A pile of rubble is all that is left after a mobile home exploded and went up in flames early Thursday morning. Morinville RCMP and the Sturgeon fire department were dispatched to the blaze around 7:30 a.m.

Data modelling might one day help the city decide what types and when new civic facilities should be built.

Nobody will ever know what Shawn Maxwell Rehn was thinking when he shot Const. David Wynn and Auxiliary Const. Derek Bond at Apex Casino early Saturday morning.

Doug Horner has resigned as MLA for Spruce Grove-St. Albert effective Jan. 31. On Thursday, Horner announced he is leaving provincial politics – a decision he said has been in the making for more than a year.

As soon as you walk into one of the greenhouse-type pyramids at the Muttart Conservatory – with its exhibits of lush greenery, delicate flowers and amazing fragrances – the wintery world outside seems to fade away.

Some Elmer S. Gish parents are furious this week that their junior high students might be booted to Lorne Akins next year due to overcrowding. Elmer S. Gish parents learned in a meeting with the St.