Category Archives: Alberta
Alberta celebrates 70 years being “Rat-free”
This year marks 70 years of Alberta's Rat Control Program.Started in 1950, the program ensures Albertans are safe from the environmental and economic destruction rats cause (chewing through crops, foo...
Dec 18, 2020
Federal health minister asked to review Alberta's use of strychnine as wolf control
EDMONTON - Animal advocates have asked the federal health minister to review a decision that allows Alberta to keep using strychnine to poison wolves in an ongoing effort to preserve caribou herds. Wo...
Dec 18, 2020
U of A's Butterdome converting to field hospital as contingency: Shandro
EDMONTON - A new field hospital being set up on Edmonton's University of Alberta campus will be operational by January, but Health Minister Tyler Shandro says it remains a last-ditch contingency.Shand...
Dec 17, 2020
Drugs seized following ALERT raid of Whitecourt home
On December 10, ALERT raided a suspected drug home in Whitecourt.During the raid, ALERT seized methamphetamine and fentanyl. Evidence of drug trafficking was noted by the presence of packing materials...
Dec 17, 2020
RCMP start criminal investigation into trail derailment near Field, B.C.
FIELD, B.C. - The RCMP say a criminal investigation has been launched into a fatal Canadian Pacific train derailment near the boundary between B.C. and Alberta in February 2019. Sgt. Janelle Shoihet s...
Dec 17, 2020
Province expanding rapid testing program to long-term care homes, rural hospitals
Starting Friday, the province is expanding its COVID-19 rapid testing pilot program to long-term care homes and designated supportive living facilities, homeless shelters and rural hospitals across Al...
Dec 17, 2020
Dr. Hinshaw says COVID-19 vaccines safe and effective
Alberta's Chief Medical Officer of Health is defending the short amount of time it took to develop and approve the first COVID-19 vaccines.Dr. Deena Hinshaw says it is "incredible" to think that, with...
Dec 16, 2020
'Feisty' Calgary infant gaining weight and alert after recovering from COVID-19
CALGARY - When five-day-old Nora Forrest was first hospitalized with COVID-19, her parents didn't know if she would survive. "We weren't sure that we're bringing her back home or we're going to bring ...
Dec 16, 2020
Red Deer RCMP investigating possible sex assaults from 1990s
A police investigation is underway into possible historical sex assaults that occurred in various locations in Red Deer during the 1990s.Red Deer RCMP says they have identified a local Red Deer busine...
Dec 16, 2020
Prairie Wheat Commissions set record straight on wheat prices and food costs
Three commodity groups from the Prairie provinces are taking exception with a recent Canadian Press story about the price of food.The Alberta Wheat Commission, Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commissio...
Dec 16, 2020