Category Archives: Alberta
'Money for free': Critics warn proposed Alberta well cleanup plan a royalty giveaway
EDMONTON - Critics fear Alberta's new United Conservative premier is preparing to bring in a program that would use billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded royalty breaks to subsidize energy companies ...
Oct 31, 2022
Premier Smith won't permit mask mandates in schools
Premier Danielle Smith is all but guaranteeing that mask mandates will not return to schools.In a statement released Saturday morning, Smith says:"Our government will not permit any further masking ma...
Oct 29, 2022
Stettler District Agricultural Society receives RCF funding
The Rural Communities Foundation (RCF) has announced the winners of its $100,000 grant created to help keep rural communities sustainable. The four communities who will share $100,000 in RCF funding a...
Oct 28, 2022
Province says 2022 harvest results in above-average yields
The provincial government says Alberta's crop producers continue to show resiliency despite dry growing conditions and the rising costs of farm inputs. For more than a century, the province says agric...
Oct 28, 2022
Court: UCP unmasking decision for schools was improper and unreasonable
A judge has found the Alberta government's decision in February to block school boards from imposing their own mask mandates was improper and unreasonable.The case was filed by the Alberta Federation ...
Oct 28, 2022
Alberta recognized by National Geographic for Indigenous tourism
The prairie province is being given a spotlight by a major international publication.National Geographic has released its list of "25 breathtaking places and experiences for 2023."According to the org...
Oct 27, 2022
RCMP accuse Consort man of ramming vehicle and coming at police with an axe and knife
A 37-year-old man from Consort is facing charges after an incident in east-central Alberta on Oct. 25.It was 7:40 p.m. that day, RCMP say, when a male attended the Consort RCMP detachment following an...
Oct 27, 2022
Province announces agreement ratified with Alberta Crown prosecutors
Provincial officials have announced that Alberta Crown Attorneys' Association members have ratified an agreement with the Alberta government.The agreement, said to be the first of its kind in Alberta,...
Oct 27, 2022
Rising from the ashes: Creepy Hollow rebuilds haunted house after fire
WARNER, AB - Creepy Hollow has risen from the ashes in time for Halloween.A fire on May 20, 2022 burned the popular haunted house and library at the attraction to the ground, devastating the community...
Oct 27, 2022
Second suspect arrested in missing Wetaskiwin man's death
UPDATE, Oct. 28, 2022:Wetaskiwin RCMP say Cashtin Joseph, 27, and Stanley Howse, 49, both residents of Wetaskiwin, have been charged with one count of first-degree murder in the death of Brian Dupe, 6...
Oct 27, 2022