Alberta

Coronavirus may force government to ditch balanced-budget plan: Kenney

EDMONTON - Premier Jason Kenney says the novel cornonavirus outbreak is hammering Alberta's economy and may force his government to abandon its core election promise to balance the books by 2023....

Mar 06, 2020

Kenney says he agrees with survey urging end to daylight time

EDMONTON - Premier Jason Kenney says a large majority of Albertans recently surveyed want to end daylight time and he's in favour of it.About 90 per cent of 141,000 survey respondents said they wanted...

Mar 06, 2020

Alberta reports first presumptive case of novel coronavirus

Alberta's chief medical officer of health has confirmed the province's first presumptive case of novel coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19.The individual is a woman in her fifties who lives in t...

Mar 05, 2020 The Grand Princess cruise ship passes the Golden Gate Bridge as it arrives from Hawaii in San Francisco Feb. 11, 2020. A Calgary area woman believed to have contracted novel coronavirus was aboard the ship and is now recovering at home. (Scott Strazzante/The Associated Press/San Francisco Chronicle)

WATCH: Province releases report on supervised consumption services in Alberta

CALGARY - A report says the social impacts of supervised drug consumption sites in Alberta include increased needle debris and a growing risk to public safety in surrounding neighbourhoods.Associate h...

Mar 05, 2020

Conservation specialist says closing provincial parks won’t save money, benefit Albertans, or improve tourism

The Provincial Government has announced that it will be fully or partially closing 20 provincial parks and recreational areas, while removing 164 parks, recreation areas, and natural areas from the pa...

Mar 05, 2020

Emergency room doctors: UCP is putting future of Albertans health at risk

MEDICNE HAT, AB - All thirty-six emergency room doctors from Medicine Hat and Lethbridge are calling on the UCP government to return to the negotiating table to avoid, "draconian and devastating effec...

Mar 05, 2020 Medicine Hat hosptial's ER Dr. Paul Parks speaking out against changes to Alberta healthcare Wednesday. (CHAT News photo)

WATCH: Province announces plan to reduce surgical wait times

The provincial government has announced $100 million in capital funding aimed at reducing surgical wait times in Alberta.The province says the investment will help hospitals across the province upgrad...

Mar 04, 2020

School districts would need approval to use reserves under new provincial bill

EDMONTON, AB - Changes to how school boards spend and access reserve funding could come into effect later this year if a new bill passes.Finance Minister Travis Toews tabled Bill 5, the Fiscal Measure...

Mar 03, 2020

Province cuts firefighter training grant

Municipalities throughout the province may face some troubles funding firefighter training, now that the Alberta Government has cut a grant designed to support external training programs.The $500,000 ...

Mar 03, 2020 (Lethbridge News Now)

Alberta releases list of parks slated for full or partial closures

Alberta has released a list of cuts it is making to the parks system, including 20 full or partial closures.The public will be barred from 11 of those parks, while nine will be accessible but without ...

Mar 03, 2020 (Photo: Government of Alberta)