St. Albert businessowners are upbeat about the future, a city survey has found, with more than half expecting revenues to rise in the next 12 months.
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Monthly Archives: July 2025
Province contributes $2.3 million to Blackfalds water reservoir
Blackfalds is doubling the size of a water reservoir to be ready for future growth.
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Highway 2 widening concerns picking up speed
Opposition appears to be picking up speed to a proposed Highway 2 widening project that would cut into a sensitive wetland.
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Cypress drought prompts local agricultural state of disaster
In response to ongoing weather conditions, Cypress County has declared an agricultural state of disaster.
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House prices and rents continue to climb
UK house prices rose by 3.9% in the year to May 2025, reaching an average of £269,000, according to latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), marking a slight acceleration from the 3.6% annual price growth recorded in April.
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D-FW suburb called America’s best place to rent
The best place to rent in America isn’t a large urban city — it’s a suburb in Collin County.
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Weekly mortgage demand plummets 10%, as rates and economic concerns rise
Renewed concerns over tariffs and the broader economy drove treasury yields higher last week, and mortgage rates followed. As a result, total mortgage application volume dropped 10% last week compared with the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally adjusted index.
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Winter lull sees slight rise in rental vacancies, but pressure persists
Australia’s rental market showed a minor easing in June, with the national vacancy rate rising from 1.2% to 1.3%, according to the latest data from SQM Research.
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Proposed redistricting for school site in St. Albert’s north is premature, city report says
St. Albert city council will hold a public hearing at its final regular meeting before summer break to debate the redistricting of a parcel of land to facilitate a school site in the north end of the city, despite the lack of proper servicing for the proposed location of the school, according to a city report.
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Remedy Housing officials guilty of ‘interest-free mortgage’ deception
Three former officials of Remedy Housing have been found guilty of dishonesty offences in relation to a deceptive scheme that falsely promised consumers interest-free mortgages, ASIC reported.
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