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While real estate prices remained mostly steady across the Capital region last month, St. Albert saw house prices nudge upwards.

Christian Benson has no shortage of cans in which to put his trash. He watches as a forklift hauls yet another stack of green carts out of a sea can.

Cat people clean clumps of feline feces from litter boxes on a weekly basis. Dog people take their furry friends for a walk every day with plastic baggies at the ready to package up their pups' poopy business. Snake people have it pretty easy.

Failing to play nicely with the law did not land Ahmed Al-Mustapha behind bars, but he does have some personal work to do before he is in the clear. The 22-year-old Edmonton man was handed a conditional sentence in St.

Renting a movie for a quiet night in may pose a problem for St. Albertans, depending on the outcome of bankruptcy hearings now under way.

Tips from the public and the work of three separate police agencies led to the arrest of a man in St. Albert Thursday. Eric Bjorn Hanson, 29, was arrested at a residence in St. Albert without incident for being unlawfully at large.

Organizers of St. Albert’s 150th anniversary celebrations are breathing easier this week after receiving a $75,000 grant from the province.

For Lynne Rosychuk, there is no way to escape domestic violence. Her daughter, Jessica Martel, was killed two years ago by her common-law husband in Morinville. Rosychuk has never spoken publicly about her ordeal.

St. Albert residents still face a 3.2 per cent increase in their municipal property taxes but the city's residential tax rate is actually decreasing in 2011. Residents will pay $732 per $100,000 of assessed value compared to $745 in 2010.

Alberta’s proposed new Education Act is silent on the controversy brewing in Morinville over secular education, however Education Minister Dave Hancock says the issue will be addressed by the coming school year.