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Plastics bans, environmental monitoring get short shrift during pandemic
OTTAWA - In mid January the British Columbia government announced it was looking at a wide ban on single-use plastic grocery bags to put an end to a piecemeal, city-by-city approach to the problem of ...
May 23, 2020
Bad lie: cross-border golf course unplayable for Canadian members
FREDERICTON - Border restrictions related to COVID-19 are proving a hazard for Canadian members of a golf course along the Canada-U.S. boundary. The Aroostook Valley Country Club, built during the Pro...
May 23, 2020
Bad lie: cross-border golf course unplayable for Canadian members
FREDERICTON - Border restrictions related to COVID-19 are proving a hazard for Canadian members of a golf course along the Canada-U.S. boundary. The Aroostook Valley Country Club is uniquely positione...
May 23, 2020
NHLPA executive board authorizes more talks with NHL on a return to play
The NHL and its players are going to keep talking. The NHL Players' Association announced late Friday its executive board has authorized "further negotiations" on a 24-team playoff format as the ...
May 22, 2020
Bee expert: A wilder lawn can let pollinators thrive
It's not hard to imagine where we'd be... without bees and their fellow pollinators. For one, there wouldn't be anywhere near the access to the variety of food we value so dearly. For their efforts, p...
May 22, 2020
Central Alberta communities reporting significant rainfall
Meteorologists with Environment and Climate Change Canada say a seasonal spring storm that has moved through Alberta over the last few days has brought widespread rain to the province. On Wednesday, r...
May 22, 2020
Despite circumstances, Hunting Hills grads experience happy would-be diploma day
Last September, grads at Hunting Hills High School in Red Deer likely envisioned their May 22, 2020 going a lot differently.Friday was supposed to be the day the class of about 350 would receive their...
May 22, 2020
Province says inspections of unharvested acres almost complete
The Government of Alberta and Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (AFSC) are working together to help producers this spring, with 92 per cent of pre-seeding claims now said to be complete.Gover...
May 22, 2020
Two more deaths as Alberta dips below 900 active cases
More than 85 per cent of all confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Alberta have now recovered.The number of people who'd tested positive that are now symptom-free rose by 91 to 5,801 on Friday.There were als...
May 22, 2020
Majority of crops already seeded in central Alberta
Officials with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry say precipitation across the province has been varied over the last month. In this period, western parts of the Southern and Central Regions as well as ...
May 22, 2020