Alberta

Second presumptive case of COVID-19 detected in Edmonton zone

Alberta has its second presumptive case of the coronavirus.Alberta Health says it is in a man in his 40's from the Edmonton area.Officials say this is travel related and he is recovering in isolation ...

Mar 06, 2020

Verdict for Calgary man charged with murder of four-year-old daughter to come March 20

An Alberta judge will hand down her verdict March 20 in the case of a Calgary man charged with murdering his four-year-old daughter in 2014.Oluwatosin Oluwafemi is charged with second-degree murder in...

Mar 06, 2020

Premier Jason Kenney in favour of ending daylight savings time

Premier Jason Kenney says a large majority of Albertans recently surveyed want to end daylight time and he's in favour of it.Kenney says about 90 per cent of those surveyed said they wanted to stick t...

Mar 06, 2020

Three new judges appointed to Alberta Court of Queen's Bench

Three new judges appointed to Alberta Court of Queen's Bench are all from Edmonton.Melanie Hayes-Richards, Nathan Whitling and Shaina Leonard have been named to the superior court.Hayes-Richards, who ...

Mar 06, 2020

Health Canada to ban strychnine to kill Richardson’s ground squirrels

Health Canada is moving forward with a ban on the use of the deadly pesticide strychnine to kill gophers.The Health Canada website says an evaluation of scientific information confirms there are risks...

Mar 06, 2020 Richardson's Ground squirrel AKA gopher -photo credit to U-of-L

First presumptive case of COVID-19 in Alberta in the Calgary zone

The first presumptive case of the novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, has been reported in Alberta.The individual is a woman in her fifties who lives in the Calgary zone. The case is travel-rel...

Mar 05, 2020

Province releases report on Supervised Consumption Sites

A report examining the socio-economic impacts of supervised consumption services in the province has been released by the provincial government.The findings were presented on Thursday morning, at a pr...

Mar 05, 2020 The Grande Prairie Mobile Supervised Consumption Site during the official unveiling back in March 2019

Birch Hills County calling on oil and gas industry to make good on unpaid taxes

Birch Hills County is calling on oil and gas companies operating within its boundaries to pay up on their tax bills.Birch Hills Reeve Gerald Manzulenko claims a recent audit of 2019 financial statemen...

Mar 05, 2020

Supreme Court will not hear Trans Mountain pipeline expansion appeal cases

OTTAWA - The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project has cleared another legal hurdle. The Supreme Court of Canada has decided not to hear five challenges from environment and Indigenous groups from...

Dylan Payne Mar 05, 2020

A conservation specialist says closing provincial parks won't save money, benefit Albertans, or improve tourism

The Provincial Government has announced that it will be fully or partially closing 20 provincial parks and recreational areas, while removing 164 parks, recreation areas, and natural areas from the pa...

Mar 04, 2020