Category Archives: Alberta

Extreme cold lifting over Prairies - making way for milder temperatures
A meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada says an extreme cold that settled into the Prairies more than a week ago is starting to lift.Dan Kulak says the blast of Arctic air set new r...
Feb 16, 2021

Outdoor hockey players in Alberta break records, raise $1.575M for cancer research
SHERWOOD PARK, Alta. - The world's longest hockey game has broken multiple records this year. Forty people took turns playing hockey on an outdoor rink 24 hours a day, seven days a week since Feb. 4 t...
Feb 15, 2021

Preliminary data shows Alberta's suicide rates declined in 2020
The Centre for Suicide Prevention says updated figures from Alberta Vital Statistics shows 14 suicide deaths in Grande Prairie in 2020. That figure is up from 2019, when there were 13 suicides recorde...
Feb 15, 2021

Court grants interim injuction to temporarily halt Wood Buffalo EMS dispatch withdrawal
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - A judge has granted an interim injunction that stops a northern Alberta municipality from withdrawing from the provincial ambulance dispatch service.Justice Kent Davidson heard ...
Feb 12, 2021

$400M available in next round of funding to clean up inactive Alberta oil & gas sites
EDMONTON - Alberta and the federal government say another $400 million in funding is available to help clean up inactive oil and gas sites in the province.The money includes $100 million for clean up ...
Feb 12, 2021

Lawyer critical of suggestion head of Alberta oil inquiry is biased
CALGARY - A lawyer is decrying what he calls a "drive-by" accusation that the commissioner leading an inquiry into alleged foreign-funded anti-Alberta energy campaigns is biased. David Wachowich has m...
Feb 12, 2021

Enbridge reports higher fourth-quarter profits despite rising Line 3 costs
CALGARY - Enbridge Inc. says its profits rose in the fourth quarter, despite increasing costs of its Line 3 project.The company reported fourth-quarter earnings attributable to shareholders of $1.78 b...
Feb 12, 2021

Province plans big expansion of Kitaskino Nuwenëné Wildland area
EDMONTON - Alberta is to expand the world's largest connected stretch of boreal forest preserve.Environment Minister Jason Nixon says the province plans to protect more than 1,400 square kilometres of...
Feb 11, 2021

No plans for regional economic relaunch right now: Kenney
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says there are no plans right now to look at varying economic restrictions based on regions.Critics, including United Conservative caucus member Drew Barnes, ar...
Feb 11, 2021

WHL's Rebels ready for life at the rink, literally, this season
Yes, the Red Deer Rebels really are taking "life at the rink" to a whole new level.Pictures showing makeshift digs at the Westerner Park Centrium where players will be living during the upcoming abbre...
Feb 11, 2021