Two additional air tankers and two-night vision-equipped helicopters are being added to the province's list of equipment to be prepared for wildfire season 2024. These pieces of equipment are contracted out. Alberta now has three-night vision helicopters on hand.As wildfire behaviour is usually subdued at nighttime wit...

Business owners in the County of Grande Prairie are encouraged to participate in a survey to help establish business priorities.The County has launched the sixth Business Retention & Expansion survey to better understand the future plans and needs of local businesses and how business owners view the community. The ...

UPDATE at 6:45 a.m. April 29 - RCMP advised that the police operation on 106 Avenue and 108 Street in Fairview is over and officers have cleared from the residence.----------------------Fairview RCMP say there is a heavy police presence in the area of 108 Street and 106 Avenue.Mounties say in a news release sent out ju...

Fort Vermilion RCMP say a 22 year old man is facing charges after a woman was held against her will inside a home in John D'Or Prairie by a man with a firearm.Mounties say the report came in just after 6 a.m.The report led to a shelter in place order for the community.The suspect was later arrested. A search of the hom...

A significant investment is being made in Coaldale.The Government of Alberta has announced that a $222-million cold storage facility is being built in the town by NewCold, with construction to begin "almost immediately".The facility will offer capacity for Alberta food processors to boost production. Official...

Alberta's Mid-Sized Mayor's Caucus has issued an official statement, regarding "open dialogue" with the provincial government. Following the Conservative Party's announcement about the proposed Bill 20 and Bill 18. Bill 20, if passed in legislation, would see the provincial government gain more power over com...

The Government of Alberta is taking steps to better prepare for and respond to wildfires.The province will purchase two additional air tanker groups and two new night vision-equipped helicopters.These types of fire fighting helicopters were piloted during the 2023 fire season, and officials say it allowed for improved ...

A busy season for gymnasts begins this week.The 2024 Mountain Invitational will be held in Okotoks this week. The following weekend, the Alberta Xcel and Compulsory Championships will be hosted by St. Albert.Thousands of gymnasts will appear at both tournaments, including four young athletes from Redcliff's Twist and F...

You might notice an AltaLink helicopter flying over your community this week.The company says it is conducting an aerial patrol of its electrical transmission facilities around parts of the province. The annual work allows the company to do a visual check of its transmission lines and surrounding vegetation.The patrols...

Drumheller, known as the Dinosaur Capital of the World, once again honed their namesake as over 3,000 people dressed up as dinosaurs to try and set a new world record. The unofficial record of 1,163, set last year in Dundurn, Sask., appears to be shattered as people from across the country flocked to Drumheller Saturda...

OTTAWA - A federal inquiry into foreign interference has yet to present its initial report, but the Liberal government is already advancing plans to overhaul a suite of national security laws and procedures. The government says recent consultations found general support for measures to respond to foreign meddling, alon...

MONTREAL - A major Quebec teachers union says it will follow the lead of the English Montreal School Board and seek to challenge the province's secularism law before the Supreme Court of Canada. The Fédération autonome de l'enseignement, or FAE, says in a statement today that in particular it opposes the ...

Research suggests climate change, not habitat loss, may be the biggest threat to the survival of threatened caribou herds. Biologists have long thought the herds are menaced by wolves using cutlines and clear cuts to follow deer into old-growth forests that once protected caribou. They thought restoring that habitat w...

VANCOUVER - B.C. Premier David Eby has joined other politicians denouncing remarks at a demonstration in Vancouver where protesters chanted "long live Oct. 7," praising that day's attacks by Hamas on Israel. The rally outside the Vancouver Art Gallery on Friday was also told by a speaker that the attacks by H...

London Drugs says it has temporarily closed all of its stores in Western Canada as it grapples with a "cybersecurity incident." The retailer and pharmacy chain says it learned it was the victim of a cybersecurity incident on Sunday, when it first closed its stores "out of an abundance of caution." T...

WINNIPEG - The trial of a Winnipeg man accused of killing four women began this morning with a preliminary matter before the jury is called in next week. Jeremy Skibicki has pleaded not guilty to four counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran, Rebecca Contois and a fourth unidentifie...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Ecuador announced Monday it has filed a complaint at the top U.N. court against Mexico over its decision to grant political asylum to a former Ecuadorian vice president, which led to Ecuador's highly criticized raid on the Mexican Embassy earlier this month. Ecuador's Foreign Ministry said in a st...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Uruguay's former guerilla-turned-president, Jose Mujica, best known for transforming his tiny country into one of the most socially liberal in all of Latin America, said Monday that he has esophageal cancer. Mujica, 88, said he was diagnosed during a routine medical checkup last Friday. He said t...

LONDON (AP) - Scotland's first minister, Humza Yousaf, has resigned rather than face a no-confidence vote just days after he torpedoed a coalition with the Green Party by ditching a target for fighting climate change. Yousaf, whose Scottish National Party has been weakened by a campaign finance scandal and divisions ov...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - A dam collapsed in western Kenya early Monday, killing at least 40 people after a wall of water swept through houses and cut off a major road, police said. The Old Kijabe Dam, located in the Mai Mahiu area of the Great Rift Valley region that is prone to flash floods, collapsed and water spilled d...

Candace Parker always said she'd know when it would be time to retire. That day came Sunday. The three-time WNBA champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist announced on social media that her career was over after 16 seasons. "The competitor in me always wants 1 more, but it's time," Parker wrote in an Instag...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - President Joe Biden won the Democratic presidential primary Sunday in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico was authorized to open only a dozen voting centers this year compared with more than 100 in previous years given recent austerity measures imposed by a federal control board ...