The Canadian Mental Health Association is celebrating the expansion of its Recovery College program into Peace River.With support from a micro-grant from West Fraser, CMHA expanded the program to communities outside Grande Prairie, offering free courses on mental health literacy and health and well-being.The micro-gran...

The Grande Prairie Police Service and Alberta Sheriff Highway Patrol joined forces last month to conduct the first-ever commercial vehicle enforcement operation.On Aug. 21, GPPS and Highway Patrol spent six hours inspecting 23 commercial vehicles passing through the City at a designated inspection site south of the air...

Spirit River RCMP have confirmed Highway 2 has reopened following a fatal collision Tuesday (Sept. 1) afternoon in the Saddle Hills area. Around 3:10 p.m. that day, Mounties responded to reports of a collision between a semi-truck and a pickup, resulting in the temporary closure of the highway between Township Roads 76...

Rig welders in northern BC have walked off the job. Effective Tuesday, roughly 160 welders from Fort St. John and neighbouring communities are participating in a job action, refusing to come to work for any of their employers at this time. Spokesperson for Rig Welders of the North Peace Region, Vahid Aghdasi, says they...

Another chapter in the book of Monique LaGrange has closed.LaGrange, the former trustee with Red Deer Catholic Schools, had taken her legal case against the school division to the Court of Appeal of Alberta this past April.The final decision was released Sept. 2.For background, LaGrange faced sanctions stemming from a ...

Three new funding streams have been created by the provincial government to help strengthen family violence programs.As a result, the Government of Alberta is investing $15 million into the trio of new grants, and applications are now open for service providers to access funding."Family violence has devastating im...

Voters are being reminded of changes to what they'll experience on Oct. 19, when they go to the ballot box for Alberta's controversial referendum.On Tuesday, Elections Alberta began mailing out referendum special ballot packages.Elections Alberta has received around 225,000 requests for special ballots, which is four t...

The Government of Alberta is launching a new licence plate to promote conservation, it announced Monday.Sales of the licence plate will be directed to the Alberta Conservation Association (ACA)."Alberta's wildlife and wild places are a source of pride for people across our province. This licence plate gives Albert...

Food Banks Alberta says their warehouse is critically low and is calling for corporate food donors and financial supporters to help restock the shelves.The warehouse supplies 112 member food banks across the province and said they got to this point because they shipped product out to their members faster than donations...

Alberta separatists converged outside the legislature in Edmonton on Saturday afternoon ahead of the province's birthday, with many praying, listening to sermons and saying Alberta would be better off without Canada after having joined Confederation 121 years ago."It's the corruption, the lies from out east. I'm j...

THUNDER BAY - Prime Minister Mark Carney will travel to northern Ontario today for an announcement regarding Canadian manufacturing. Carney's itinerary says he'll make the announcement in Thunder Bay and that it will involve a "historic investment" in ...

TORONTO - Thousands across the Greater Toronto Area and parts of Ontario's Golden Horseshoe remain without power after a severe storm flooded streets, knocked down trees and utility lines. Toronto Hydro reported early Thursday that roughly 8,300 homes ...

On a recent summer Friday, nearly a dozen students logged on for their online literature class. It was a group of mostly young women joining from different parts of Afghanistan, eagerly waiting for their turn to discuss a story they had read the week b...

ST. JOHN'S - Every September, Sue Riccardelli and her wife, Maureen Murray, fly a large flag composed of Canada's Maple Leaf and America's Stars and Stripes outside their New Jersey home. The flag honours the people of central Newfoundland who cared fo...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada is set to unveil a new bill today featuring an image of King Charles. This is the first Canadian paper currency to feature Charles, whose image replaces that of the late Queen Elizabeth II. The bank was directed by former pr...

A Canadian paper cup and bowl manufacturer is seeing growing demand from foodservice customers across the country as tariffs prompt coffee chains and fast-food restaurants to seek out more Canadian-made take-out packaging. Eco Guardian Inc., which make...

Russia will shutter German cultural centers across the country, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday. The move comes after Berlin blamed Moscow for an attempted attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport and announced the closure of both the...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Gunfire could be heard throughout a downtown Minneapolis apartment building as police responded to an active shooting Wednesday that left three people dead, including the suspect, and five others wounded, authorities said. ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Authorities were responding to a shooting in Minneapolis on Wednesday afternoon with multiple victims, including two police officers, according to officials. The Minneapolis Police Department warned the public to stay a...

LIVINGSTON, Texas (AP) - Tropical Storm Marie strengthened into a hurricane Wednesday evening in the Pacific Ocean, the National Hurricane Center said. Hurricane Marie was located about 375 miles (600 kilometers) southwest of the southern...

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) - Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial went home without a verdict Wednesday following a fifth day of deliberations and twice saying they can't agree whether the Massachusetts mother is criminally responsible for killing her three yo...

VALLETA, Malta (AP) - A jury in Malta on Wednesday acquitted the Maltese businessman accused by prosecutors of being the mastermind of the 2017 car bomb killing of crusading investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, sparking renewed calls for ac...