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St. Albert’s Farmers’ Market will be bigger than ever this year, with a slightly different route and 15 new stalls for potential vendors.

The Capital Region Board (CRB) could definitely use a few tweaks to how it operates, how it votes and for what it is responsible, some of its members seem to agree. It has been a rough couple of months for the group of Edmonton-area municipalities.

Morinville Mayor Paul Krauskopf says he won't run for re-election this fall out of concern for his health. Krauskopf made the announcement Tuesday night after the town's regular council meeting.

St. Albert students are giving the city back to Nature, one tree at a time. This week Grade 11 and 12 students from Bellerose planted trees in the Lacombe Lake parkway, which is on the site of an old railway spur-line near Lindbergh Crescent.

St. Albert’s two new schools will both be built in Erin Ridge, and that has city councillors worried about potential traffic jams along Erin Ridge Drive.

When John McDougall joined the Canadian military in 1989, he had a secret: he was gay. And he didn’t dare tell anyone.

‘Angels’ is how Deana Popowich describes the people that volunteer to install her daughter Halle’s playground piece.

Landfills are the top environmental issue in Alberta, says St. Albert’s latest provincial environment minister, and compost is the best way to shrink them.

While it might not be as bad as Edmonton, St. Albert’s pothole situation is definitely worse than in any recent year in memory, say city officials.

Earlier this week, my wife and I observed the 42nd anniversary of our marriage (I would have said “celebrated” our anniversary, but I’m not sure the occasion is a celebration for my better half.