Category Archives: Alberta
Eight-inch SMIRD allocation just enough for southern irrigators, official says
St. Mary's River Irrigation District on Wednesday revealed eight inches of water per acre as its allocation for the 2024 season, a number high enough to get crucial southern Alberta irrigators through...
Apr 03, 2024
New med school programs being created in Lethbridge & Grande Prairie
A pair of new educational programs aim to certify more than 100 new doctors every year in Alberta.The Government of Alberta has announced $224.8 million to create Rural Medical Education Program Train...
Apr 03, 2024
CBSA workers to vote on potential strike
Officials with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) will soon decide whether they could hit the picket lines.Members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) and the Customs and Immigration...
Apr 03, 2024
Banff bus fire strands U.K. students on ski trip; no injuries
LAKE LOUISE, Alta. - Two dozen youth visiting from the United Kingdom were shuttled to safety after their tour bus caught fire on a scenic highway in Banff National Park. At about 5 p.m. yesterday, R-...
Apr 03, 2024
Drought poses key risk to Canada's natural gas producers in 2024: Deloitte
Persistent drought conditions are poised to challenge natural gas producers even as they aim to ramp up in anticipation of Canada's first liquefied natural gas export terminal opening, a new report wa...
Apr 03, 2024
Recovery Alberta to host engagement sessions
Alberta's government has announced two new organizations that they say will support the development of the mental health and addiction system of care. The new mental health and addiction organization,...
Apr 03, 2024 Photo: Youtube
Police investigate multi-tractor crash as carbon-levy protests continue in Alberta
COCHRANE, ALBERTA, CANADA - Mounties in Alberta say they're keeping traffic moving on the Trans-Canada Highway despite a roadside carbon-levy protest, and say five large farm tractors have already cau...
Apr 02, 2024
Boy, 11, killed by large dogs while visiting Edmonton home
EDMONTON - Police say an 11-year-old boy has died after he was attacked by two large dogs in an Edmonton home. Officers responded to the attack at the home in the city's south side on Monday night. Po...
Apr 02, 2024
Province details 'Recovery Alberta', new mental health and addiction agency
The Government of Alberta has revealed the first details of its new organization that will be focused on mental health and addictions services. The organization will be known as Recovery Alberta and w...
Apr 02, 2024
'It just needs to stop': Carbon price protesters slow traffic on Trans-Canada Highway
COCHRANE, Alta. - Horns blared along the Trans-Canada Highway west of Calgary on Monday as a protest against the hike in the federal carbon price slowed traffic to a crawl. Hundreds of protesters, man...
Apr 01, 2024