Alberta

Report on Alberta's finances released today

EDMONTON- Findings from a panel tasked by the Kenney government to come up with options for helping the province emerge from its deficit are scheduled to be released today.A news conference is planned...

Sep 03, 2019

Southern Alberta train derailment under investigation

LETHBRIDGE COUNTY- The Transportation Safety Board has deployed a team of investigators to the site of a train derailment that prompted an evacuation yesterday morning.There were rail cars leaking oct...

Sep 03, 2019

AHS reminding parents to make sure children are up-to-date on immunizations

Alberta Health Services is reminding parents to make sure their children are up to date on their immunizations as the school year begins."By following a routine immunization schedule, you and your chi...

Aug 30, 2019

Increased police presence on Highway 9 following deadly crashes

Cereal, AB - It's been a deadly month on Highway 9 between Oyen and Youngstown with four fatalities which have left an 11-year-old boy dead and a young girl seriously injured in a collision which took...

Aug 30, 2019

Province lifts ban on school seclusion rooms

Alberta's United Conservatives have repealed a ban on seclusion rooms in schools.The ban was brought in by the previous NDP government over concerns the rooms were traumatizing students with developme...

Aug 30, 2019 Education Minister Adriana LaGrange

Verdict next month for Lethbridge couple charged in son's death

LETHBRIDGE - In three weeks time, David and Collet Stephan will learn their fate.They are each charged with one count of failing to provide the necessaries of life after their 19-month-old son Ezekiel...

Aug 30, 2019

Scars of 2017 wildfire still evident in Waterton park as rebuild continues

WATERTON, Alta. - Deb Watson returned to her family's trail-riding business after the Waterton wildfire to find little more than a pop machine melted into a bubbly puddle with coins ins...

Aug 30, 2019

Alberta RCMP remind citizens of the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act

Edmonton - From January 2016 to December 2018, 1,971 deaths in the province of Alberta have been attributed to apparent opioid-related overdoses. Alberta RCMP were dispatched to several of those incid...

Aug 29, 2019

$500 million solar energy project coming to Vulcan

VULCAN COUNTY, AB - Canada's largest solar energy project is on its way to Vulcan County.Greengate Power Corporation has received approval from the Alberta Utilities Commission to build and operate it...

Aug 28, 2019 A rendered image of the Travers Solar project (Photo courtesy Greengate Power)

AUMA President touring Alberta to discuss provincial, local issues

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Communities across Alberta can all face similar issues, but the solutions to those issues are not always necessarily the same.That's according to Barry Morishita, the Mayor of Brooks ...

Aug 28, 2019