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We all want to make the tastes of summer last into the fall – how great is it to get a hit of summer-sweet corn on the cob in the midst of winter or a hint of the unbeatable flavour of homegrown garden tomatoes, well past August? There are seve

Tearing a man from a car engulfed in flames was not how Gerry Harris thought he would be spending his Saturday afternoon. Harris was walking his dogs along Sir Winston Churchill Avenue around 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug.

St. Albert students head back to school next week, and St. Albert teachers have spent all summer and more getting ready for them. Sept. 2 is the first full day of classes for thousands of local students in the St.

The provincial government announced a higher-than-projected surplus in its quarterly fiscal update this week. Local MLA and Finance Minister Doug Horner delivered the news during a Wednesday press conference.

Some St. Albert Public schools will be a little cramped this fall due to the late delivery of six portable classrooms. St. Albert Public was supposed to get six new portables this fall to relieve a space crunch at Bellerose Composite, Elmer S.

Parts stolen from a grounded airplane at Villeneuve Airport last week is spelling trouble for the Alberta Aviation Museum. The Pacific Western Airlines Boeing 737 was broken into sometime between the night of Saturday, Aug.

County farmers are raring to go this week as Alberta gets ready for the start of harvest season. They traditionally start their harvest during the first week of September, and this year looks to be no exception.

When Marian Deptula first got the phone call, she cried. “I almost dropped the phone,” she recounted. “I thought it was such a great honour.” Deptula was inducted into the College of Opticians of Alberta Hall of Fame during the College's Annual General Meeting and Convention in April.

Raoul St. Jean knows a thing or two about Legal. "I was born a mile out, but I went to school in Legal and I've been here all my life," says the 86-year-old. He's also lived in the same house on Legal Ave. since 1949.

The city's economic development team is contemplating the creation of a tenant attraction package that would help to attract and retain tenants for commercial and industrial properties in the city.