Tag Archives: City Hall
Police launch initiative to help the city's less fortunate
A new campaign to help the city's less fortunate has the Prince Albert Police Service joining forces with the Prince Albert RCMP for a food drive. Residents and business owners are being encouraged to...
Dec 10, 2019 Food and monetary donations for the local food bank can be dropped off at the new police service substation on 10th St. E. from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday until Dec. 19. (Nigel Maxwell/ paNOW Staff)
P.A. city council passes 2020 budget
P.A. city council has passed the 2020 budget in a narrow 5-4 vote. Council had approved the budget during deliberations in November, but the final decision came after an hour and half of sometimes ten...
Dec 10, 2019 Councillors during recent budget deliberations (Alison Sandstrom/paNOW staff)
2020 city budget expected to pass Monday night
Prince Albert city council is expected to pass its 2020 budget on Monday night.The general fund budget includes a 2.9 per cent tax increase, with a focus on infrastructure spending. Meanwhile, the uti...
Dec 09, 2019 Councillors during budget deliberations on Nov. 7, 2019 (Alison Sandstrom/paNOW Staff)
P.A. to enforce new taxi regulations
A month and a half after Prince Albert updated its taxi bylaw, the city will begin enforcing the new regulations. Key changes include mandatory cameras inside all taxis.Mayor Greg Dionne estimates onl...
Dec 03, 2019 (File photo/paNOW Staff)
Professor says proposed back alley bylaw likely to be challenged
A Prince Albert-raised criminal justice professor says council's proposed back alley curfew would likely be challenged in court if passed. For Kevin Walby, associate professor at the University of Win...
Dec 03, 2019 (Alison Sandstrom/paNOW Staff)
City staff complete emergency response training
As a test emergency alert lit up phones across the country on Wednesday, senior Prince Albert city staff members underwent their own emergency preparedness training. The special one and half day progr...
Nov 29, 2019 The last time P.A. Municipal Emergency Plan was used was during the 2016 Husky oil spill (file photo/paNOW Staff)
Council to discuss financial support for first-time home buyers
First time homebuyers in Prince Albert could be getting a boost from the city. A new proposed program would help people cover the cost of down payments by contributing 2.5 per cent of the value of the...
Nov 27, 2019 (file photo/paNOW Staff)
Local MP discusses infrastructure funding with P.A. mayor
Local MP, Conservative Randy Hoback was in Prince Albert on Tuesday to meet with Mayor Greg Dionne. The two sat down to discuss the city's top federal funding priorities, among them a new $80 million ...
Nov 26, 2019 Conservative MP Randy Hoback (left) speaks with P.A. Mayor Greg Dionne (right). (Alison Sandstrom/paNOW Staff)
Last call for new water meter installation
With 75 per cent of installations complete, the City of P.A. is asking residents who do not yet have a new water meter to get in touch. "We have reached the point in the process where people are getti...
Nov 26, 2019 (submitted photo/City of P.A.)
Utility bills to rise in P.A.
Pending final approval, monthly utility bills for the average Prince Albert household will increase by between $2.65 to $3.55 in 2020, or $31.80 to $42.60 per year. A homeowner with an average consump...
Nov 22, 2019 (file photo/paNOW staff)
