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Look up chocolate on the Internet and you start to find a whole new level of adjectives. One site alone listed 85 words to try to describe how people felt about chocolate.

The new supplemental capital contribution fee being introduced on utility bills in 2015 is designed to help raise money to pay for the upkeep of utilities over the next decade.

Drivers might not like them, but early statistics show collisions have been reduced along St. Albert Trail since the protected left-hand turn system was introduced this spring.

Jeannie Papadopolous says there is a healing aspect to painting windows. So much so that she sometimes ignores the small tumour in her brain that blocks the nerves in her left arm and causes her to suffer from seizures.

A new wine store opened in St. Albert on Nov. 22. Hicks Fine Wines is located at The Shops at Boudreau at #109, 150 Bellerose Drive.

Many kids at Edmonton’s Mother Teresa school will have a gift under the tree this holiday thanks to the secret Santas at Father Jan. About 50 Grades 5 and 6 students from Ă©cole Father Jan swarmed St.

Athabasca University is leaving St. Albert after 20 years, and that has the city's head of economic development frustrated.

A former city council candidate is suing the City of St. Albert and Mayor Nolan Crouse for $250,000 in punitive damages. Ted Durham, who filed a statement of claim at the Court of Queen’s Bench in Edmonton on Dec. 3, is also seeking. $7,220.

A St. Albert woman has been honoured this week for her tireless efforts to defend children’s rights. Velvet Martin was one of five people to receive a human rights award from the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights Wednesday.

Don Wells visits his wife Dorothy, 83, at Youville Home every day. After suffering a stroke in July 2012, Dorothy has very short-term memory and uses a wheelchair to get around.