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The signs the city has used to get people from point A to point B will be getting not just a facelift, but a whole new strategy in 2013. A consultant, in conjunction with the city, is developing a way-finding master plan.

The RCMP have laid one charge of arson against a man for allegedly setting fire to his own home last Saturday. On Dec. 29, hours after responding to a fire at Braeside Presbyterian Church, the St.

A 68-year-old St. Albert woman is dead after a car struck her motorized scooter Wednesday. Julie Jans was crossing Bellerose Drive between St. Albert Centre and Safeway in a marked crosswalk shortly after 3 p.m. when she was hit by a westbound 2009 Pontiac Vibe.

For all of those wannabe wordsmiths and hotshot writers, the St. Albert Public Library is about to launch a new service in the person of Natasha Deen, the library's new regional writer in residence.

With the new year past, the turkey dinner a faint grumble in the stomach, and sunnier days ahead, we start to stretch and train anew. While most of the population has already jumped on bikes and treadmills at the local gym, others stand still.

Two prophecies are left unrequited as 2012 comes to a close: the end of humanity and the end of this generation of video games.

An elderly woman was airlifted to an Edmonton hospital Wednesday afternoon after the electric scooter she was driving was struck by a car. The woman was crossing Bellerose Drive between St. Albert Centre and Safeway shortly after 3 p.m.

A local pastor is thankful no one was injured and the damage to her church wasn't worse after an early morning fire on Saturday. Firefighters responded at approximately 1:00 a.m. Saturday morning to a report of a fire at Braeside Presbyterian Church.

Joel and Amanda Kleine love their present home and they love St. Albert but they both fervently hope that this will be the last winter they spend here.

Newspaper reporters write hundreds of stories a year. This holiday season Gazette staff writers have picked out their one favourite story from 2012 and are recounting what made it special.