The Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards Foundation is increasing the prize amount for its Distinguished Artist Award from $30,000 to $50,000.According to the organization, the Distinguished Artist Award recognizes exceptional achievement and significant artistic impact provincially and beyond. This increased pri...

The RCMP is expanding its Experienced Peace Officer program, also known as ExPO, into Alberta, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.Officials say the program is a brand-new approach to recruiting experienced officers.It originally launched in B.C. and Yukon in July 2026."The ExPO program is a reflection of the R...

The Alberta government says changes to the collection of education property taxes will save property owners nearly $100 million next year.Through Budget 2027, the government says it will introduce one provincial education property tax rate that will be set for three years at a time, allowing Albertans and municipalitie...

Alberta license plates will have their first redesign in over 40 years, available to all drivers next week.The plates feature the slogan "Strong and Free" with a backdrop of Moraine Lake after the province held a vote on eight designs for residents to choose from in October of last year.The Moraine Lake desig...

As winter fast approaches, Alberta Fish and Wildlife is asking people to take steps to reduce attracting bears.Fish and Wildlife says that at this time of year, bears are searching for high-calorie foods to prepare for hibernation, and this can bring them closer to residential areas, farms and campsites.Fish and Wildli...

The Government of Alberta is proposing legislative changes to strengthen protections for people receiving care, improve health-system accountability and clarify funding rules for medical services.Bill 39, the Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2026 (No. 2), includes changes to several provincial health laws, including legi...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says sweeping Democrat wins in the U.S. midterm elections are a vindication of her approach to the cross-border trade war. Smith says her government has always opposed tariffs and the harms they cause on both sides of the border. The Democrats on Tuesday took control of both houses of Con...

Groups representing eye surgeons in Canada and Alberta are calling on the province to reverse a decision to let optometrists do some minor surgeries. The Canadian Ophthalmological Society, the Eye Physicians and Surgeons Association of Alberta and the Alberta Medical Association's ophthalmology section say it's a matte...

ATCO is reminding Albertans about the dangers of carbon monoxide (CO), especially as the weather gets colder.Nov. 1-7 is Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week, and it is a timely message this time of year as people turn on furnaces, fireplaces, and other fuel-burning appliances."Carbon monoxide is a silent and potentiall...

The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is warning local businesses of a recent credit card scam in Alberta.Mary O'Sullivan-Andersen, President and CEO of BBB Alberta, said fraudsters are contacting local businesses and purchasing goods using stolen and fraudulent credit cards."This scam was targeting the trucking indust...

Alberta is expanding its health-care workforce faster than any other province, performing more surgeries per capita than the national average and paying physicians above the national average, as new data point to growth across the province's health-care system.Figures from the Canadian Institute for Health Information ...

Alberta has introduced legislation to restrict post-secondary schools from being able to publicly weigh in on social and political issues. Advanced Education Minister Myles McDougall says schools could still make official expressions of sympathy, and that the bill, should it pass, would not restrict the rights of staff...

The Alberta Junior Hockey League released a statement on Monday, Nov. 2, regarding the arrest of a prominent junior hockey figure, Tyler King. "The Alberta Junior Hockey League is extremely grateful to the RCMP for their diligence in this investigation over the past two years. The dignity, privacy, and well-being ...

Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) advisories have been lifted across Alberta, according to Alberta Health Services.Recent weather has cooled lake and reservoir water temperatures to such an extent that cyanobacteria and water quality, including fecal bacteria levels, present a low health risk for usage of the lake for r...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is defending a proposal to redraw provincial boundaries in a way the Opposition NDP says is cheating. The legislature is soon expected to debate a report that pitches diluting urban ridings in the city of Lethbridge by merging them with surrounding rural ones. Smith says so-called hybrid ...

The Alberta Legislature will host a Remembrance Day Ceremony on Wednesday, Nov. 4.Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Rick McIver, will host the ceremony and says, "remembrance gives us an opportunity to pause and reflect on the sacrifices made by generations of Canadians who served our country in times of war, c...

The Government of Alberta reports that the work done by its wildfire preparedness program and firefighting crews led to a successful wildfire season.In addition, significant rainfall across the province also contributed to a less active season.However, even though it's the end of the season, that does not mean wildfire...

A 64-year-old man from the Crowsnest Pass has died following a two-vehicle collision on Highway 3, just west of Cowley.RCMP confirm the driver of a pick-up truck, a resident of Coleman, died on scene Friday morning during a collision with an SUV on the highway at Township Road 74, near Lundbreck.The driver of the SUV w...

The same day one separatist leader was given the boot from the United Conservative Party, another faction of Alberta's separatist movement has taken a hit.Cameron Davies has announced he is resigning as leader of the Republican Party of Alberta.And as noted, it was earlier Friday when Premier Danielle Smith shared that...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government is reducing education property taxes starting next year after it brought in successive hikes for ratepayers. It means home and farmland owners will pay almost seven per cent less than this year while non-residential property owners will pay almost five per cent less. S...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says a high-profile separatist leader has been kicked out of her United Conservative Party. Smith told reporters in Calgary that the party's executive director made the decision to revoke Jeff Rath's membership over code of conduct issues, and it's a decision she supports. Rath has been a...

Just ignore the advice of Huey Lewis and the News, because Alberta does not, in fact, 'gotta get back in time' this weekend.Sunday, Nov. 1 would've been the day that Alberta falls back an hour, but that's not happening.The province will remain on the new time zone known as ABT, or Alberta Time.In a release, the UCP say...

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) announced Friday morning that Russia has won an appeal to be allowed back into events run by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF).That includes the upcoming World Juniors in Edmonton and Red Deer this December, though there's no immediate word on how Russia will or may...

Alberta's United Conservative government is making changes to standardize school report cards. Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides has introduced legislation which, if passed, will grant him authority to set guidelines for those report cards. Nicolaides says setting standards is a provincial responsibility and cite...

The Alberta Government has proposed a change to Bill 35, the Education and Childcare (Securing Parental Involvement) Statutes Amendment Act.If passed this would amend the Early Learning and Child Care Act and "give the province stronger tools to assess the background of individuals applying to operate child-care p...

Alberta's historic referendum on separation saw voters trek to the polls in the highest numbers in decades. That's according to official results from Elections Alberta, which peg voter turnout on the separation question at 70.4 per cent. The turnout is the highest for a provincewide vote since at least 1975, but it fel...

Third quarter figures, released Wednesday by Canadian Pacific Kansas City, reveal revenues of $4.2 billion - a rise of $500,000, or 15-percent, when compared to Q3 last year."CPKC delivered solid results, powered by momentum across our unrivalled North American network, countering macroeconomic headwinds during th...

The province says it has set aside $60 million for an Emissions Reduction Alberta project to tackle what it calls Alberta's "biggest economic and environmental challenges: restoring land, growing more and saving water." The Agriculture, Water and Land Challenge is asking for proposals for new technologies. Th...