Alberta

WATCH: Hinshaw to give COVID-19 update

Coming up at 3:30 p.m. Chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw will provide an update on the COVID-19 situation in Alberta. Though Hinshaw is the only official listed on the media advisory f...

Andrew Snook Mar 22, 2021

Jailed Alberta pastor to be released from jail but must pay $1,500 fine

STONY PLAIN, Alta. - A judge has ruled a jailed Edmonton-area pastor can be released immediately but has to pay a $1,500 fine. Judge Jeffrey Champion says James Coates, who preaches at GraceLife Churc...

Mar 22, 2021

Another Alberta union rejects province’s request for more bargaining delays

EDMONTON - The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees says its nursing care members and general support workers in health care have rejected a request from the province's health delivery agency to exte...

Mar 22, 2021

Cabinet committee scheduled to discuss easing Alberta's COVID-19 restrictions

EDMONTON - A cabinet committee of Alberta's United Conservative government is scheduled to meet today to decide whether to further ease public health restrictions.Premier Jason Kenney said last week t...

Mar 22, 2021

Alberta adds 184 variant cases of COVID-19 in last 24 hours

Alberta confirmed 555 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, for a total of 141,934 confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic.That's out of 11,405 test results over the past 24 hours for a positivity ...

Mar 21, 2021

Environmentalists want Jasper backcountry ban extended to protect remaining caribou

EDMONTON - Environmentalists and scientists are calling on Parks Canada to further restrict access to Rocky Mountain backcountry in an effort to help save the last large caribou herd in the national p...

Mar 21, 2021

Look to next-gen oil and gas leaders to end North America's energy stalemate: experts

WASHINGTON - North America's polarizing pipeline battles have seen many venues - from the Prime Minister's Office and the U.S. State Department to the windswept plains of Nebraska and Minnesota to jud...

Mar 21, 2021

Zero active COVID-19 cases linked to Red Deer Olymel outbreak

There are no more active cases of COVID-19 linked to an outbreak at the Olymel pork processing plant in Red Deer, according to Alberta Health. The outbreak began in November and topped out at 518 conf...

Andrew Snook Mar 20, 2021

RCMP continue search for missing children and two adults from Cochrane

RCMP in Cochrane say the Serious Crimes Branch continues its search for two young girls and two adults last seen Friday, March 12.Mounties said in a media release a week ago that they were investigati...

Mar 20, 2021

Alberta Health reports zero COVID-19 deaths, increase in hospitalizations

Alberta did not add to its death toll Friday, as the province had zero COVID-19-linked deaths reported to it in the last 24 hours.The death toll since last March remains at 1,957. It's grown to that t...

Mar 19, 2021