Students at Rudolph Hennig School passed their goal of raising $2,000 this year to be donated to finding a cure for cystic fibrosis.

A pair of highway intersections near Lamont are being altered to make them more safe, the province announced last Wednesday. The two intersections, located at Highways 831 and 29 as well as 831 and 45, will be transformed over the next week so that all traffic will have to stop at the intersections.

New federal anti-money laundering/anti-terrorist-financing legislation is forcing unnecessary work on the real estate industry, says one local realtor.

A Gibbons teen recently named Alberta’s high school rodeo queen by the Alberta High School Rodeo Association (AHSRA) is heading down south later this month to compete in the Queen Pageant at the National High School Finals Rodeo in New Mexico.

With the writing on the wall for three months following his party’s crushing provincial election defeat to the Conservatives, Kevin Taft announced last week that after four years of leading the Alberta Liberals he’ll resign by the end of next January.

Renewal of infrastructure and student transportation remain a challenge for the Elk Island Public School board, after they unanimously passed a $154-million budget for the 2008/09 school year.

The Capital Region Board will have until November to decide how it will pay for projects it approves, Mayor Jim Sheasgreen said last week.

The Liberal candidate running in the next federal election in Fort Saskatchewan’s riding praised his party’s ‘green shift’ plan, but local conservatives argued it’s bad for oil-rich Alberta last week.

Strathcona County’s former chief administrative officer was named Fort Saskatchewan’s interim city manager late last week.

City council rolled out the red carpet last Thursday inviting taxpayers to “get informed” about the civic square project which could now cost up to $52.1 million, including a $12.1 million underground parkade.