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Environment minister Dianna McQueen has asked a panel of experts to recommend how a new oilsands monitoring system will be run and funded.

Alberta’s need for a single technology industry association will soon be determined, after several months of project inactivity.

As the uproar continued to bubble over how Alberta's MLAs are paid, Premier Alison Redford moved to fight the flames by announcing her MLAs would no longer take pay for serving on committees.

Over the decades, video games have moved from a basement, isolated recreation to a mainstream, integrated form of media.

Packing up can be a pain, especially when being interrupted by rocket attacks. Just ask Maj. Craig Malin.

A St. Albert class is getting top marks for energy efficiency this week as it takes part in a national energy diet. Students in Monique Waters' Grade 3 class at Muriel Martin Elementary school are taking part in the Energy Diet Challenge — a national event organized by Shell Canada and Canadian Geographic that asks students from some 500 classes to get charged up about energy conservation.

A tentative three-year agreement between the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) and Alberta Health Services (AHS) sees an annual three per cent increase in wages for general support services workers.

County council is thinking about going back to having an unelected reeve instead of a mayor, a recent motion suggests — a move a former mayor denounces as a "cockamamie idea." Coun.

Mayor Nolan Crouse is tired of “the fear-mongerers” criticizing the state of St.

A few late bills from the 2011 fiscal year bit into the city’s surplus, but St. Albert will still finish the year $549,000 in the black, the standing committee on finance heard Monday.