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Trees, parks, arenas and digital message signs all got the axe last week as Morinville council tweaked the town's 2013 budget. Council voted unanimously in favour of second reading for the 2013 budget last Nov. 27 after cutting $300,000 from it.

After moving to St. Albert from his warm Australia home, Bradley Watts thought he’d take advantage of the Canadian winter. But the temporary foreign worker didn’t expect to end up chasing a puck on a frozen river.

Questionable actions throughout an on-again, off-again relationship have one man spending the next nine months behind bars. Casey Philip Ingram appeared Monday in St.

A Namao man got an early Christmas present last Friday in the form of a letter from his mom – one that took 69 years to reach him. Namao historian Jack Speers said he got a call on Nov. 30 from Morinville RCMP.

Morinville will have to shell out even more than expected for its renovated civic centre, and the town’s mayor says council should have done more to keep the project’s costs in check.

The proposed property tax increase stand at 3.48 per cent with one more night of debate left on the proposed 2013 budget.

At six in the evening, a lone hare is the only resident of Hamilton Crescent out on the road. His white fur mixes with the colour of the snow. He runs from car to car – a small nose sniffing the air, the long ears lifted and turning.

Coun. Len Bracko wants the city to spend more than $500,000 for a study on what route a future LRT line through St. Albert might take.

Councillors will break out the “tax-o-meter” on Tuesday as they start sifting through, debating and voting on dozens of motions that will ultimately decide the value of a property tax increase for 2013.

Most people only know of the St. Albert Kinettes as the group that takes centre stage around this time every year. They have their annual Christmas hamper campaign that offered food and gifts to more than 240 local families in 2011.