Crane rental company LaPrairie Group of Companies has announced the passing of their president and CEO Scott LaPrairie.Scott passed away earlier this spring, after a battle with cancer.LaPrairie calls Scott a gifted leader who grew a one-crane, two-man operation into 800 employee business in a variety of industry secto...

Construction for the Maskwa Medical Center officially starts next week with a public groundbreaking ceremony.Located next to Grande Prairie Regional Hospital, the Center is being designed to expand access to quality, community-centered care for residents of Grande Prairie and the surrounding region."This center an...

The first crop report of the year from Alberta Agriculture and Irrigation and AFSC, dated May 6, says just under 10 per seeding had been done by that date.The five year average for the same date is four per centThe most progress has ben made in planting spring wheat, with just over 24 per cent in the ground. Just under...

The Grande Prairie RCMP Special Investigative Unit (SIU) has made a pair of arrests, stemming from a sexual assault investigation. Mounties say on Monday, May 5 they received a report of sexual offences against a youth, allegedly taking place between August and December of 2024. With help from the Grande Prairie Caribo...

According to Statistics Canada, Alberta has now reached five million people.You can see StatsCan's live population tracker here.Alberta hit four million in October 2013, it was summarized by an economic post by ATB Financial's Mark Parsons on Monday.Based on the medium-growth projection from Alberta Treasury Board and ...

The Government of Alberta says it is helping to keep industries competitive and defend jobs with its latest move.The province has announced that it is freezing the industrial carbon tax, which is currently set at $95 per tonne of emissions.It was scheduled to rise to $110 per tonne in 2026 and eventually reach $170 per...

Thousands of Alberta government workers started voting Thursday on whether or not to strike.The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees said in a statement its employees have not seen a significant wage increase in decades and are being impacted by rising costs of living. AUPE said the province offered 11.5 per cent over...

A new report from Statistics Canada says Alberta was one of the country's leaders in employment growth last month.It says around 15,000 Albertans found work last month, 14,100 of whom came into full-time positions. This largely helped to offset a decline in jobs from March.Quebec was the only jurisdiction to see a bigg...

Alberta's Information and Privacy Commissioner has found the Government of Alberta is non-compliant with processing access to information requests under the FOIP Act.The finding comes after Diane McLeod conducted a 21-month long investigation into 27 government departments.The full report can be read here.The investiga...

The Alberta NDP and other health-oriented groups say Bill 55, The Health Statutes Amendment Act, proposed by the provincial government, will destroy public health if passed.This comes following second reading of the legislation on Wednesday; it was tabled May 1.The office of Health Minister Adriana LaGrange says the ND...

A defence lawyer for one of five hockey players accused of sexual assault is expected to cross-examine the complainant at the players' trial today. The woman first took the stand on May 2 and has now faced questions from legal teams representing four of the accused, with the fifth set to begin its cross-examination tod...

WASHINGTON - Ottawa's top diplomat in Washington says talks to negotiate any new deals with the United States will prioritize ending U.S President Donald Trump's ruinous tariffs on Canadian exports. Ambassador to the United States Kirsten Hillman said Monday that initial negotiations with Trump's team will focus on lif...

OTTAWA - While the recent federal election turned into a tight race between the Liberals and Conservatives that left other parties trailing far behind, a new poll suggests most Canadians don't want the country end up with a two-party system. The poll of over 1,600 Canadians, conducted by Leger Marketing for the Associa...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... PM Mark Carney to shuffle cabinet today Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to name his new cabinet at Rideau Hall this morning - and it's expected to be a slimmed-down front bench meant to signal a more businesses-minded approach t...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney has arrived at Rideau Hall in the capital for the swearing-in of his new cabinet, following his April 28 election victory. Major figures from former prime minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet, including Chrystia Freeland, Dominic LeBlanc, Mélanie Joly, François-Philippe Ch...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney's new cabinet will be sworn in at a ceremony at Rideau Hall at 10:30 a.m. ET. The inner circle is expected to include many new faces, with fewer than 30 ministers and 10 secretaries of state. Here's the latest on the events at Rideau Hall. All times Eastern. --- 10:00 a.m. Prime Mini...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday that he will be waiting for Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Turkish capital this week to conduct face-to-face talks about the more than three-year war. Putin hasn't yet said whether he will be at the talks, which U.S. President Donald Tru...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) - Preliminary results in Albania's parliamentary election on Tuesday give a clear victory to the ruling Socialist Party which attracted voters supporting the country's uphill effort to join the European Union and Prime Minister Edi Rama's bid for a fourth term. With about 96% of the votes counted, ...

BERLIN (AP) - The German government has banned the largest "Reich citizen" group, an extremist far-right organization that calls itself the "Kingdom of Germany" and seeks to undermine the country's democratic order. Since early Tuesday morning, hundreds of security forces in several states have been...

LONDON (AP) - British police say they have arrested a man on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life over a fire at the London house where Prime Minister Keir Starmer lived before he was elected to lead the country. The 21-year-old was arrested early Tuesday. No one was injured in the blaze early Monday that da...

A federal judge on Monday refused to block the Internal Revenue Service from sharing immigrants' tax data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the U.S. In a win for the Trump administration, U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich denied a preliminary in...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Hamas on Monday released an Israeli-American soldier who had been held hostage in Gaza for more than 19 months, offering a goodwill gesture toward the Trump administration that could lay the groundwork for a new ceasefire with Israel. The Israeli military confirmed that 21-year-old Edan...