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The provincial government's controversial land use bills have become a hot topic in the race to replace Ed Stelmach with several PC leadership candidates suggesting the bills need a tweak.

Councillors got zapped with about $136 million volts of sticker shock Tuesday when they got a look at the cost of implementing a new vision for downtown.

Improving weather conditions have prompted St. Albert to lift its fire ban, however burning is still strictly controlled in Sturgeon County for the time being. St.

The chrome. The rumbling engines. The pristine black tires. It’s for these reasons and so many more that people will come out in droves for this weekend’s annual Autorama.

Up to 5,400 more people could move into a bigger, greener Villeneuve over the next two decades, under the terms of a proposed new area structure plan.

“I had basically forgiven those guys 16 years before the incident ever happened.” Those are the words of John Bergen, the Canadian missionary who was brutally attacked with his wife, Eloise, in Africa three years ago.

Donations kept piling up at Alexander this week as people from across the province rallied for Slave Lake. Resident Sharice Cardinal was busy sorting through yet another truckload of donations at the Alexander community hall this week.

Quick! What’s the difference between a downy woodpecker and a yellow-bellied sapsucker? When you see that little brown bird in your pine tree, is it a sparrow, junco or kinglet? Can you tell a mallard from a duck? These questions and more are e

With the smoke beginning to clear from around Slave Lake, area residents are continuing their efforts to help the community rebuild.

Video games are a form of art. It’s been said before, but thanks to recent events, another resounding victory has been won in this ever-raging debate and the nail in the coffin of this controversy is at hand.