Local News

This is the time of year when school kids and their wallet-bearing parents go off into department stores with checklists of school supplies. For parents whose wallets are as bare as Mother Hubbard’s cupboards, help is a phone call away.

A woman convicted in the death of a local realtor in 2006 is being released from prison for the third time after two previous parole attempts failed.

A “quick change” artist has used distraction and sleight of hand to bilk two local businesses, prompting police to issue a warning. The man was first spotted at the St. Albert Totem store on Aug. 5.

Local joggers got a surprise military escort Friday morning as about a hundred troops hiked through St. Albert. About 100 members of 1 Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry set out from Legion Memorial Park Friday morning at about 8:10 a.

Family and friends of a 30-year-old St. Albert man killed in a vehicle crash last weekend are remembering a bright, funny, generous and charismatic young man who died too young.

Every year the MS Society of Alberta hosts several popular fundraising bike tours, all somewhere between 150 and 200 kilometres.

A competitive electricity and natural gas retailer is raising concerns with its door-knocking tactics.

You might think that after 80-plus years of living, pulling weeds might get a bit tiresome. Yet for many River Ridge Seniors Community residents, pulling weeds is not just a way to beautify their small garden plots.

Local mycologists are licking their lips this weekend as they get set to chow down on a bumper crop of edible mushrooms. Heavy rains have produced an explosion of mushrooms in the St. Albert region.

St. Albert RCMP seized an undisclosed amount of drugs and arrested three individuals Wednesday while executing a drug trafficking search warrant at a Lacombe Park home. “We were looking for drugs and evidence of trafficking,” said Cpl.