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Hot topics from the election were on the agenda during council’s recent committee of the whole meeting. On Jan. 24, St.

On Feb. 1, St. Albert lawyer Paul Quantz will be officially sworn in as the 2014 chair of the St. Albert and District Chamber of Commerce. Quantz has been practicing law in communities across Alberta since 1975.

A St. Albert man who was clocked going 265 kilometres an hour on his motorcycle in 2012 has been handed a $2,500 fine. Paul Bennett, 34, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving in an Edmonton court Thursday.

Extreme weather conditions are forcing the Canadian insurance industry to look at raising premiums and changes to its approach, which means consumers may soon have the ability to see how their coverage is broken down and select the parts they want to

Erin Ridge residents were gobsmacked to learn the proposed school site on Eldorado Park has grown from the original 2.99 acres to a 3.5 acre footprint outlined on a draft site plan.

RCMP hit the jackpot on Friday after finding cash, drugs, a sawed off shotgun and ammunition during a motor vehicle search in Sturgeon County.

The driver of the school bus that killed a six-year-old St. Albert boy in September has pleaded not guilty to his charges. Joseph Allen of Edmonton was charged with driving carelessly and failing to yield to a pedestrian in November last year. Allen was the driver of the school bus that struck and killed Thomas Wedman, a Grade 2 student at Ă©cole Marie Poburan on Sept. 27. Wedman was crossing the street as the bus made a right-hand turn onto Woodlands Road from Sir Winston Churchill Avenue.

There's a new member of the RCMP in town, and he's a 75-pound furball of pure energy. His name is Echo and he's one of the province's newest bomb-sniffing dogs.

To some, vandalism isn't a big problem in St. Albert, yet there is evidence of this destructive act all around – from spray paint graffiti on a concrete wall to a broken fence board. Reporter Scott Hayes looks at the issue in a two-part series.

Urban design guidelines are now in place for new developments in downtown St. Albert. City council approved the proposed urban design guidelines for the downtown area on Monday night in a 5-2 vote. Couns.