Northern Sunrise County, the Town of Peace River, and Lac Cardinal Economic Development have announced the development of a new workforce planning grant project.Funded in part by the Canada-Alberta Workforce Tariff Response, the Peace Regional Readiness and Planning Project is aimed at strengthening workforce readiness...

Alberta Health Services says the Emergency Department at the Beaverlodge Regional Hospital will be without a physician overnight.The closure will start at 8 p.m. tonight (Wednesday, May 20) and continue until 8 a.m. tomorrow (Thursday, May 21).Nursing staff are available to provide triage and assessments.Patients cans ...

The Grande Prairie Fire Department responded to a structure fire in Crystal Ridge this morning (Wednesday, May 20).GPFD says at 6:30 a.m. crews responded to a fire at a mobile home, where the caller reported flames coming through the roof.Once at the scene, crews found all the occupants safely outside and began extingu...

The County of Grande Prairie kicks off a major road project along Range Road 53 today.The work involves a new layer of pavement being added to the road south of Township Road 712, followed by grading, minor spot fixes, and road surface milling. (Image Credit: County of Grande Prairie) The county says for the duration o...

Two of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's cabinet ministers are stepping down.Finance Minister Nate Horner and Hospitals Minister Matt Jones are set to leave their posts and don't plan to run again in the October 2027 general election.Both made the announcements on social media, saying it's best to step down now and give...

Alberta RCMP report they removed 122 drivers from roadways and issued 1,204 tickets during the long weekend.Police say from May 15-18, Mounties conducted enhanced traffic enforcement to target impaired drivers and unsafe driving practices."The Alberta RCMP will continue to have an enhanced presence on provincial r...

Someone in Alberta is $12.5 million richer after purchasing a winning Lotto Max ticket. Western Canada Lottery Corporation says the ticket was bought within the province, but somewhere outside of Edmonton and Calgary. The Lotto Max jackpot is $25 million, but there was another winning ticket in Quebec, so the prize wil...

We now know how the newly redesigned 'Welcome to Alberta' signs will look, and what they'll say.The Government of Alberta unveiled the design Wednesday, with the signs also bearing the message 'Strong and Free.'It was announced in April that the signs would actually be shaped like the province, but that isn't coming to...

Analysts at CIBC World Markets say the timeline the Alberta government set out for construction to begin on a potential new west coast oil pipeline reflects a best-case scenario. The province aims to submit a proposal to the federal major projects office by July 1, have it designated a project of national interest by O...

The wind was quite strong on Thursday in different parts of Alberta.It was even to blame for the collapse of a sports dome in Red Deer.According to Environment and Climate Change, wind reached the following maximum speeds on May 14 (km/h):Three Hills: 101 Schuler: 100 Finnigan: 98 Cadogan: 96 Hussar: 96 Acadia Valley: ...

OTTAWA - Canadian heavy-duty truck dealers say they won't be able to import any new models next year unless Ottawa moves quickly to fix a paperwork problem. The warn that Canada could face major supply chain disruptions if a solution isn't found. The d...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Feds working with City of Ottawa to ease public service transit woes: memo An internal memo reveals that officials managing the federal government's return-to-offi...

British Columbia researchers found more than 200 contaminants in water and chinook salmon tissue samples collected from five sites in the Lower Fraser River estuary including everything from cocaine and antidepressants to caffeine and flame retardants....

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will hear British Columbia's appeal of a ruling that found the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the provincial mineral claims regime are "inconsistent." The B.C. Court of Appeal rul...

OTTAWA - Officials managing the federal government's return-to-office plans are concerned about the ability of Ottawa's troubled municipal transit system to actually get public servants to their workplaces, an internal memo shows. Canada's top public s...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says an Air France flight bound for the United States was diverted to Montreal after a passenger from the Democratic Republic of Congo boarded "in error" amid flight restrictions tied to the Ebola outbreak. A spokespe...

NEW YORK (AP) - Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin released a critical study of the party's performance in the 2024 campaign on Thursday, bowing to intense internal pressure from frustrated Democratic operatives who had publicly demanded th...

BUNIA, Congo (AP) - NEW DELHI (AP) - India and the ⁠African Union have postponed the ⁠India-Africa ⁠Forum Summit scheduled to held next week in New Delhi, due to ⁠the "evolving health situation in parts of Africa." The announcement on Thu...

MOUNTAINAIR, N.M. (AP) - Three people are dead and more than a dozen first responders were quarantined and being treated Wednesday for exposure to an unidentified substance after being called to a suspected drug overdose at a rural New Mexico home, aut...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - US Rep. Barry Moore and former Navy SEAL Jared Hudson advanced to a runoff on Wednesday for the Republican nomination for the open U.S. Senate seat in Alabama. Moore is a three-term congressman endorsed by Presiden...

FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) - An Arizona prisoner convicted of killing another man by throwing gasoline at him and lighting a match was put to death Wednesday, the first of three executions planned this week around the U.S. Leroy Dean McGill, 63...

MIAMI (AP) - Federal prosecutors on Wednesday announced criminal charges against former Cuban President Raúl Castro in the 1996 downing of civilian planes flown by Miami-based exiles as the Trump administration escalated pressure on the island's social...