Category Archives: Alberta
New provincial guidelines for scattering cremated ashes
EDMONTON- Alberta has developed new guidelines for the scattering of cremated ashes. The province says that while it has never been against the law to scatter ashes, the guidelines will provide clarit...
Mar 18, 2019
Online health records now available in Alberta
EDMONTON — An online resource is now available to Albertans that will give them access to their personal health records, including immunizations, medications and lab test results. "MyHealth Reco...
Mar 18, 2019
'Play until you can't:' Bronco focuses on sledge hockey instead of anniversary
OKOTOKS, Alta. - At the end of a long and difficult year, Ryan Straschnitzki is on the ice and his hockey dream is intact. Straschnitzki and his Humboldt Broncos teammates were on their way to a Saska...
Mar 18, 2019
Province funding $13 million chopper for STARS
The Alberta Government is funding a new $13 million helicopter for STARS Air Ambulance. The chopper – an Airbus H145 — is the first in a medically equipped fleet that will replace the agin...
Mar 17, 2019
Kenney lieutenant denies running "puppet" candidate in party leadership race
EDMONTON - The staffer at the centre of a spreading scandal over Alberta’s United Conservative leadership race says party leader Jason Kenney’s team did not direct and prop up a bogus cand...
Mar 17, 2019
Researchers look to artificial intelligence programs to predict wildfires
EDMONTON - Researchers and forest managers are turning to artificial intelligence in the hope it can help them predict the risk of catastrophic wildfires as climate change continues to rewrite the rul...
Mar 17, 2019
B.C. Court of Appeal to hear province's oil-transport reference case Monday
VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s Court of Appeal will consider a key question regarding provincial powers in the political battle over the future of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project d...
Mar 17, 2019
AMBER ALERT CANCELLED, Edmonton boy abducted Friday unharmed
UPDATE: An Amber Alert issued Friday evening has been cancelled. Police say 8-year-old Noah Ducharme and his mother Brianne Hjalte were located in Okotoks around 5:30 a.m on Saturday, apparently by an...
Mar 15, 2019
Alberta creates unit to fight hate crimes, extremism in the province
EDMONTON – Alberta is creating a unit to fight hate crimes and extremism. Premier Rachel Notley says it will bring together specialists from various police forces to focus exclusively on hate gr...
Mar 15, 2019
Notley says Kenney needs to clear up leadership race controversy as RCMP investigate
EDMONTON – Alberta Premier Rachel Notley wants Opposition Leader Jason Kenney to come clean on a controversy involving one of his leadership rivals. The CBC is reporting that the RCMP has taken ...
Mar 15, 2019