Alberta

Alberta officials share COVID-19 update for May 4

Alberta's chief medical officer of health and other officials will give an update on the COVID-19 situation in the province.Dr. Deena Hinshaw will speak at a media conference scheduled to begin at 3:3...

May 4, 2020

Alberta expands roles for nursing home practitioners

Alberta is modifying regulations to allow nurse practitioners to provide expanded care to nursing home residents during COVID-19.The province says changes to the nursing home regulations will allow nu...

May 4, 2020

Optometry clinics opening today to provide full patient care

Alberta's optometrists are headed back into their clinics to provide full patient care as of Monday (May 4). This includes regular comprehensive eye exams, medically necessary appointments for patient...

May 4, 2020

Union rallies as Cargill meat plant reopens after shutdown due to COVID-19

HIGH RIVER, Alta. - A massive meat-packing plant in southern Alberta has reopened for business two weeks after it was shutdown due to a large outbreak of COVID-19. A long line of c...

May 4, 2020

Alberta Forest Week offers free activities for families and kids

Alberta Forest Week is May 3-9, and there are ways to mark the occasion while being cooped up due to COVID-19.In a release from the province, it's noted that about 60 per cent of Alberta, or 87 millio...

May 3, 2020

May 3: 96 new cases, one death and 179 recoveries

Alberta is reporting 96 new cases of COVID-19 over the last 24 hours for a total of 2,713 to date.One more person has passed away raising the death toll to 95. That case was in Calgary.Meantime, anoth...

May 3, 2020

Province gives update on flooding situation in the north

Flood response efforts continue for the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo and Mackenzie County as several northern communities face evacuation orders.A provincial update on Sunday says ice jams on...

May 3, 2020 An ice jam on the Athabasca River near Fort McMurray. (The Canadian Press/Greg Halinda)

Police searching for escapee from Maskwacis prison

MAY 6: Tyrone Emblau was arrested without incident by the Maskwacis RCMP Community Response Unit and General Investigative Section (CRU-GIS) on the evening of May 5 in Calgary. Emblau remains in custo...

May 3, 2020 (Correctional Service Canada)

Alberta parks partnership rules to be released, critics call for consultation

EDMONTON - Albertans are expected to learn Monday how they can take up to 164 provincial parks and recreation sites off the hands of a government that no longer wants them. The decision, announced in ...

May 3, 2020

Soaked walls and muddy basements: Fort McMurray residents survey their flooded homes

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - When Norm Sutton was allowed to return to his home in Fort McMurray, he could see that his wife's car had been totally submerged and floodwater had completely filled his fi...

May 2, 2020