Alberta

Alberta RCMP issues 1,916 tickets during Operation Impact 2025

Alberta RCMP issued over 1900 tickets over Thanksgiving long weekend.Alberta Mounties participated in Operation Impact 2025, a safety campaign aimed at making Canada's roads the safest in the world.A ...

Oct 15, 2025

Teachers strike having impact on those training to become teachers

Alberta's massive teachers strike is having an impact on people training to become teachers.Haley Roberts, an education student from the University of Alberta, says she was supposed to begin a require...

Oct 15, 2025

Red Deer lags behind fellow communities on solar policy, says Solar Alberta report card

Red Deer gets a failing grade in a new report card put out by an organization called Solar Alberta. The 'Municipal Solar-Friendly Policies' Report Card gives Red Deer a mark of just 13 per cent -- alr...

Josh Hall Oct 15, 2025

Better Business Bureau warns of parent strike pay spoofing sites

Albertans are being warned by the Better Business Bureau (BBB) to be wary of spoof websites imitating the provincial government's Parent Payment Program portal.That's the site by which the UCP are giv...

Oct 15, 2025

Applications open for provincial parent payment program

The Government of Alberta has officially launched the parent payment portal, and applications are now open for the parent payment program that will support families during the teachers' strike.The par...

Sheldon Spackman Oct 14, 2025

Alberta teachers, government resume talks as provincewide strike hits second week

EDMONTON - The union representing Alberta teachers and the provincial government's bargaining committee met Tuesday for the first time since a provincewide strike began a week ago. As of Tuesday after...

The Canadian Press Oct 14, 2025

Alberta teachers, province set to meet for first time since strike began last week

The union representing Alberta teachers and the provincial government's bargaining committee are set to meet today for the first time since a provincewide strike began Oct. 6. The strike, entering its...

Josh Hall Oct 14, 2025

'There's a void': Alberta students keep busy, hope for end to teachers strike

EDMONTON - Many Alberta students are sleeping in these days, struggling with the feeling they should be doing something else instead. A provincewide teachers strike, about to enter its second week, ha...

The Canadian Press Oct 13, 2025

RCMP targeting impaired driving this holiday weekend

Alberta RCMP will be participating in #OperationImpact2025 this holiday weekend, with a focus on removing impaired drivers from our roads.This is done as part of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of ...

Sheldon Spackman Oct 11, 2025

New pulmonary function testing program launches for rural and remote areas in Alberta

Albertans in rural and remote areas, as well as those in Indigenous communities, now have access to a new service able to keep tabs on a person's lung health.The service is called Lung Health Check Pu...

Oct 10, 2025