The Students' Association of Northwestern Polytechnic will be holding their annual Excellence Awards next month.The annual fundraiser and awards show supports the on-campus food pantry for students in need.The awards are presented in four categories: Excellence in Teaching, Most Student-Centred Staff, Student Volunteer...

Mounties in Grande Prairie are asking for public's assistance in locating 38-year-old Gerald Rowe. Gerald, a resident of Grande Prairie, was last seen in the city on March 14, 2026, around 2:15 p.m. He is described as: Pale complexion5'8" tall150 lbsBaldingBlue eyesGerald was last seen wearing a grey hoodie and co...

Grande Prairie Rural RCMP are asking for the public's help in locating a missing 32-year-old man.James Bradshaw, a resident of Clairmont, was last seen on March 15, 2026, around 1:30 a.m., in Clairmont.At 5:06 a.m. the same day, he communicated he was in the area of Webley with a map showing Flying Shot Lake.James has ...

Due to a clinical personnel shortage and an inability to secure physician coverage, Alberta Health Services is advising that the Central Peace Health Complex will be without an on-site doctor in their emergency department for 24-hours.There is no doctor in the ED from 8:00 a.m. Mar. 15 until 8:00 a.m. Mar. 16.Nursing s...

Alberta may soon require oil and gas companies to be on top of their municipal property taxes if they want to keep producing. It's one of more than a dozen proposals contained in a new report released by the province and by the Rural Municipalities of Alberta. Unpaid municipal taxes by some in the energy industry is a ...

Primary Care Alberta is reminding everyone to take and store their medicine safely to prevent accidental poisoning.Mar. 15-21 is National Poison Prevention Week, and PCA is focusing on medicine safety this year.They say poisoning can happen if everyday medicines are improperly mixed, misused or stored improperly and ar...

The Government of Alberta is set to invest $275 million over the next three years into provincial parks and public land infrastructure.If the 2026 budget is passed, the funds will go towards supporting new and upgraded trails, expanding trailheads, and more campsites and improved park amenities"Budget 2026 is focu...

Elections Alberta says a recall petition against a member of Alberta's Opposition NDP has been withdrawn. The petition against education critic Amanda Chapman came late last year after more than a dozen similar campaigns were launched against members of the governing United Conservative caucus. Elections Alberta says t...

The provincial government says it is putting $250,000 over two years into an idea meant to get veterinary students to stay in rural Alberta.This money is for the Veterinary Student Recruitment and Retention Pilot Grant Program. It is intended to get rural clinics to hire summer students and to get those students to pra...

A judge has denied an injunction application from Alberta teachers against legislation that forced them back to work and ended a provincewide strike last fall. Justice Douglas Mah says the Alberta Teachers' Association failed to prove issues in the case are so serious and pressing that the law should be put on hold whi...

VICTORIA - A legislator of Filipino descent who was at the scene of last year's deadly ramming attack at the Lapu Lapu Day festival is calling for this year's event to be cancelled, saying it will trigger some in the still-traumatized community. Mable ...

OTTAWA - AI systems depend on Canadian journalism for the information they provide users but don't offer compensation or proper attribution in return, says a new study. Researchers at McGill University's Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy teste...

OTTAWA - A Canadian defence expert says there's "not much" Canada could do in the Persian Gulf region right now to protect the critical Strait of Hormuz, even if it wanted to. David Perry, president of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, says the Ca...

OTTAWA - Some of Canada's most prominent conservation groups say Ottawa is putting at risk its goals to protect nearly one-third of Canada's land and waterways, with tens of millions of dollars in federal funding about to run out. Canada has committed ...

TORONTO - Canada Soccer is receiving $300,000 from the federal government to expand youth engagement initiatives across the country. Adam van Koeverden, the secretary of state for sport, announced the funding on Monday ahead of the FIFA men's World Cup...

Via Rail needs to improve its service - punctuality, in particular - according to Canada's auditor general, who nonetheless gave solid marks to the Crown corporation's management practices. In a report, Karen Hogan said that over the past decade Via ha...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) - Bombs exploded in at least three locations in northeastern Nigeria's Borno state Monday night, killing and injuring scores of people, the emergency services told The Associated Press, citing possible suicide bombings. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court will hear arguments over the Trump administration's push to end legal protections for people fleeing war and natural disaster from countries around the world, including Haiti and Syria. The justices ref...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The spokesman for Afghanistan's Health Ministry, Sharafat Zaman, said Monday that more than 200 people have been killed in a strike by Pakistan on a hospital for drug addicts in the Afghan capital, Kabul. Pakista...

HAVANA (AP) - Officials in Cuba reported an islandwide blackout Monday in the country of some 11 million people as its energy and economic crises deepen and its power grid continues to crumble. The Ministry of Energy and Mines on X noted ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - A leading soccer official in Asia says Iran is still set to play at the World Cup which kicks off in June in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Also on Monday in Tehran, a government spokesman again stressed it was for ...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Joan Laporta is on course to be officially reelected as the president of FC Barcelona for another five years after a leadership vote among members of the Spanish soccer powerhouse on Sunday. His only rival, Víctor ...