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Government says mountain pine beetle continues to decline in Alberta
The Alberta government says population surveys indicate a sharp decline in trees killed by mountain pine beetle for the fourth consecutive year.Officials say beetle populations in Alberta have decline...
Dec 07, 2022

Media shunning transparency law due to worsening delays, journalist says
OTTAWA - Veteran journalist Dean Beeby says reporters are abandoning the federal Access to Information Act as a research tool because turnaround times are terrible and getting worse. The access law al...
Dec 07, 2022

ASIRT investigation continues into RCMP officer-involved shooting causing death in central Alberta
The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) says it's continuing its investigation into an RCMP officer-involved shooting causing death in central Alberta.On Dec. 1, the Alberta Serious Inciden...
Dec 07, 2022

Alberta women’s shelters turn away thousands due to lack of space and staff; report
EDMONTON, AB - A new report shows emergency shelters in Alberta haven't been able to provide refuge to thousands of women who were fleeing domestic violence due to a lack of space.The data, which runs...
Dec 07, 2022

Red Deer County gives $300,000 to community facility upgrades
A number of Red Deer County community facilities are to benefit from an incoming round of Rural Community Facility Capital Assistance Grant dollars. Contained within the Support to Rural Community Fac...
Dec 07, 2022

Quebec's auditor finds Education Department ill-prepared for pivot to online learning
Quebec's auditor general says the province's Education Department was ill-prepared when the COVID-19 pandemic forced schools to shutter in March 2020 and it still does not have a complete picture of t...
Dec 07, 2022

FBI got tip about shooting suspect a day before 2021 arrest
DENVER (AP) - Authorities said the person who would later kill five at a Colorado gay nightclub was on the FBI's radar a day before being arrested for threatening to kill family members and blow up th...
Dec 07, 2022

ST Math partnership helping improve outcomes in Wolf Creek Public Schools
Wolf Creek Public Schools (WCPS) has partnered with a company out of the US to provide a math resource for schools and it's already having great success in the classroom. Officials with WCPS say numer...
Dec 07, 2022

Quebec coroner questions why witnesses failed to report drunk driver before crash
MONTREAL - A Quebec coroner is questioning why people who saw a drunk driver get behind the wheel failed to call authorities before he got into a crash that killed four members of a family north of Qu...
Dec 07, 2022

Trial ordered for 5 men in plot to kidnap Michigan governor
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - Five men were turned over for trial Wednesday on charges involving a foiled plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Michael Null, William Null, Eric Molitor and Shaw...
Dec 07, 2022