Category Archives: Alberta

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...
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

Kenney says data looking good on further easing COVID-19 public health restrictions
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says the COVID-19 data looks promising as his cabinet prepares to meet Monday to decide whether to further ease public health restrictions.Kenney says the key m...
Mar 18, 2021

Red Deer with 101 active COVID-19 cases Thursday
After dipping below the century mark for a few days, Red Deer again has more than 100 active cases of COVID-19.There are 101 active cases in the city as of Thursday, according to the province's latest...
Mar 18, 2021

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 COVID-19.
Mar 18, 2021