Category Archives: Alberta

Officials with Red Deer's temporary Overdose Prevention Site (OPS) are hopeful their provincial funding will continue past the end of the government's budget cycle on March 31. Sarah Fleck, clinical m...

Alberta added 411 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, and also marked one year since the first case of COVID-19 confirmed in the province.The one-day total is out of 10,559 test results for a positivity ...

More Albertans waiting to get surgeries might finally get the call.Through the new 2021 budget, the Alberta Government says there will be 55,000 more scheduled surgeries in the coming fiscal year than...

Olds College has announced plans to celebrate the province's agriculture industry and the important role that it plays throughout the world.A Celebration of Alberta Ag, is a free two-hour live streame...

EDMONTON, AB - The Government of Alberta made two announcements Thursday regarding COVID-19 vaccine eligibility. Health Minister Tyler Shando says that starting the week of March 15, the province will...

CALGARY, AB- Calgary's Foothills Hospital is receiving new priority health capital projects from Alberta's 2021 Budget.Foothills Medical Centre's neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is being given $23...

CROWSNEST PASS, AB - Backcountry recreators are asked to avoid treacherous terrain.Avalanche Canada has issued a special public avalanche warning for several regions on both sides of the provincial bo...

Alberta will join other provinces in adopting the National Advisory Committee on Immunization recommendation to extend the period between first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccine.Dr. Deena Hinshaw s...

The provincial government says Alberta seniors living in continuing care will benefit from an increase of more than $200-million in program funding as part of Budget 2021.In addition to an investment ...

RED DEER - There have been several recent cases of young children swallowing button batteries in the Calgary, Edmonton, and other zones of Alberta Health Services (AHS), some of whom required hospital...