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Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Everything about standard burial practices is bad news bears when it comes to the environment. Sinking lacquered coffins and metal caskets into the ground ...
Ripley's Believe It or Not! May 31, 2023
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! For decades, the legend of Bigfoot has fascinated people around the globe. Is the massive 10-foot-tall ape-like creature with shaggy hair a human relative ...
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Apr 06, 2023
Hundreds of Canadians are stranded in Cancn, Mexico and don't know how they'll get home after their Sunwing flights were cancelled last week. Passengers say they've been shuffled from hotel to hotel a...
Dec 26, 2022
Royal Helium has recently awarded a construction contract to Alberta's, ARJAE Design Solutions Ltd. to build a helium recovery plant."It's an exciting opportunity to be participating in the helium mar...
Nov 09, 2022
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! You may not often hear the words drinking and driving paired in a positive light, but that could change soon enough as a Scottish biofuel company makes hea...
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Apr 29, 2022
As central Albertans take to the great outdoors to enjoy the scorching hot temperatures over the next few days, City of Red Deer officials are reminding residents to keep safety in mind.Emergency Mana...
Jun 25, 2021
UPDATE (2:14 p.m.)Officials have confirmed the bear sighting in the west side of Sylvan Lake.Fish and Game Wardens are now on-site. Residents are asked to stay safe, keep an eye out and do not approac...
Jun 24, 2021
Alberta is proposing two new plans to monitor water quality on the North Saskatchewan, Battle and Upper Athabasca rivers.Environment Minister Jason Nixon says clear objectives to monitor and maintain ...
Jun 22, 2021
A three-day Environmental Appeals Board hearing has wrapped up regarding the Town of Blackfalds' plan to drain treated storm water into Lacombe Lake.Held virtually on June 14, 17, and 21, the hearing ...
Jun 22, 2021
LIVINGSTONE RANGE, ALBERTA - Two mountain goats stubbornly refused to get up from their resting spot Wednesday in the middle of a gravel road heading into the eastern slopes of Alberta's Rocky Mountai...
Jun 16, 2021