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This is the season for looking forward to the year ahead, but also for reflecting on the 12 months that have just passed. This holiday season, Gazette staff writers will share their memories from the past year.

Premier Alison Redford sat down with the Gazette in mid-December for a year-end interview. The interview, done at Government House in Edmonton, was about 10 minutes long. Below is a transcription of the second part of the interview.

Canadians are cutting waste and saving energy this Christmas, suggests a new survey. Ipsos Reid released a poll earlier this month about how Canadians were going green for the holidays.

It has been suggested that the Anthony Henday will be a game changer, not only for the Capital Region, but also for the City of St. Albert. Now that the road has been open for a few weeks, let’s examine the potential impact this $1.

Duke stops people in his tracks wherever he walks throughout the hallways of the Sturgeon Community Hospital. People see him coming and they immediately start smiling. That's the common reaction for the seven-year-old border collie/blue heeler cross.

The president of a chain of smoke shops says he will make his St. Albert franchise an 18-plus facility as soon as city council asks him to.

A change in policy means the Edmonton Humane Society (EHS) is now encouraging people to give pets as gifts at any time of the year, including Christmas.

Two former St. Albert residents have been charged with drug and firearm-related offences after a police search found cash, drugs and guns in an Edmonton home. Daniel Timothy Brower, 26, and Carly Diana Bodnarek, 20, both formerly of St.

The Progressive Conservative nomination fight in the St. Albert riding got one more contender this week, with an announcement from school administrator Sleight Anstruther. Anstruther is currently the vice-principal at G.H.

The only named suspect in the case of the disappearance of Lyle and Marie McCann has received a one-day sentence for unrelated crimes, in part due to the publicity surrounding that case.