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...

A generous donation has been received by a school within the Peace Wapiti Public School Division. Bonanza School is the recipient of a $30,000 donation by Storm Development Corp. Incoming Principal of Bonanza School Mrs. Nikita Young says it was a wonderful surprise, in a news release."When Storm Development Corp....

Holy Family Catholic Regional Division has announced their candidate for the 2025 Edwin Parr Award. Glenmary School teacher Shaelene Fitchie has been nominated the award recognizing first-year teachers. Fitchie teaches several subjects as part of Glenmary's French immersion program, including math, science, and psychol...

Fairview RCMP have reported that after an overnight search, they have located a missing two-year-old child safe and in good health. Fairview Mounties received a report yesterday evening, (Sunday, May 11, at 10:24 p.m.) and responded to a rural residence in Clear Hills County. Fairview RCMP did alert the RCMP Real Time ...

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...

OTTAWA - Climate activists and energy leaders say Prime Minister Mark Carney will need to make some hard choices on whether to bolster the country's oil and gas sector as means of achieving economic stability. Throughout the election campaign, Carney signalled an openness to building more pipelines in Canada and promis...

MONTREAL - Montreal public health officials are calling for better access to tuberculosis care after a sharp rise in the number of cases reported last year. The regional health authority reported 203 new cases in 2024, compared to an average of 123 cases per year over the previous decade. About 89 per cent of Montreal'...

OTTAWA - Canada's business community will be watching Tuesday's cabinet shuffle for signs that Prime Minister Mark Carney will be easier to work with than the last Liberal government. Experts and insiders say one of the ways Carney can emphasize that is by keeping a lean cabinet. Former prime minister Justin Trudeau's ...

OTTAWA - A prominent gun control group is urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to act swiftly to implement key Liberal election commitments on firearms. In a letter to Carney, PolySeSouvient says the mandate letter for the next public safety minister should include a commitment to "timely delivery" of promised r...

Nova Scotia RCMP say they were searching for a possible impaired driver, hours before a collision that killed five people. Police say the vehicle was the same blue Honda Civic that crashed Saturday evening on Highway 101 near Falmouth, N.S. The Mounties are seeking information from the public on the whereabouts of the ...

OTTAWA - The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations says that if the new Liberal government doesn't introduce legislation on access to clean drinking water within 100 days, the problem won't be fixed soon. The Liberals under then-prime minister Justin Trudeau introduced legislation that would have guaranteed t...

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...

LONDON (AP) - Six Bulgarians convicted of carrying out a sophisticated spying operation for Russia were sentenced by a London judge Monday to prison terms up to nearly 11 years. The group that used Hollywood code names discussed kidnapping or killing Kremlin opponents as they targeted reporters, diplomats and Ukrainian...

LONDON (AP) - Multiple lines on the London Underground network were suspended or disrupted Monday because of a power outage, the British capital's transport authority said. The Transport for London website showed that at least three subway lines were suspended due to a power failure, and there were severe delays and pa...

LONDON (AP) - British police on Monday were investigating an overnight fire that damaged door of Prime Minister Keir Starmer's house in north London. Starmer has rented out the house since he was elected in July, living with his family in the prime minister's official Downing Street residence. London Fire Brigade said ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who represented Donald Trump during his 2024 criminal trial, has been appointed acting Librarian of Congress, the Justice Department said Monday. Blanche replaces longtime librarian Carla Hayden, whom the White House fired last week amid criticism from some conserva...