Author Archives: Sheldon Spackman

Premier Danielle Smith, Minister of Forestry and Parks Todd Loewen, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Services Mike Ellis and officials from Alberta Wildfire will provide an update on the ongoin...

John Atkinson compares Canada's Olympic swim team in Paris to a complex jigsaw puzzle requiring a deft hand to complete. Swimming Canada's high-performance director of a dozen years is managing his de...

HALIFAX - As Canada's premiers reckoned with housing, health care and their contentious relationship with Ottawa during meetings last week in Halifax, many of them remained consumed by climate change-...

JASPER, ALTA. - Alberta's Jasper National Park and its townsite are under siege from two wind-whipped wildfires. One raced into the picturesque community last night, causing extensive damage. Parks Ca...

At 8:55 PM MDT, Environment Canada meteorologists are tracking a dangerous thunderstorm capable of producing strong wind gusts, up to golf ball size hail and heavy rain. This thunderstorm is located i...

Rainfall is expected to bring widespread precipitation to northern Alberta beginning Wednesday July 24 and continuing to Saturday morning July 27. Officials with Woodlands County note that precipitati...

Central Alberta farmers will have an opportunity to explore the latest innovations in agriculture technology at the AgSmart Educational Exposition coming to Olds College. "There are so many ag-tech an...

The Alberta Sports Hall of Fame had a record number of 21,582 visitors in 2023, a 12 per cent increase from the previous year, which was also a record setter. Executive director Tracey Kinsella said i...

The Bank of Canada cut its key interest rate for a second consecutive time on Wednesday, but warned the path back to two per cent inflation may be uneven and would ultimately determine the pace of fut...

GRAND PRAIRIE, ALBERTA - Some wildfire evacuees who were trapped in traffic for hours while leaving Jasper National Park say they are feeling relieved to have found safety. Addison McNeill, who is 24,...