Effective immediately, Lacombe County's Fire restriction has been lifted, thanks to the ongoing moisture conditions that have improved within the area. According to Coutny officials, their fire permitting system has reopened and can be accessed online () or by calling 403-782-8959. Citizens are reminded, however, that ...

United Way Central Alberta (UWCA) is hoping central Albertans will come through for them this Saturday when they host an event to collect menstrual products.UWCA is marking Menstrual Health Day, which falls on May 28, with an event on May 4 at Bower Place Shopping Centre. Volunteers will be collecting monetary donation...

Local motorists are advised of a partial road closure in Timberlands North beginning May 1. Officials with the City of Rerd Deer say the northbound lane of Thorburn Avenue from Toye street to Township Road 384 will be closed from May 1 to May 21 to accommodate water and sanitary infrastructure construction.During this ...

Charges have been withdrawn for one of two people charged in a drug and firearms seizure in Blackfalds last year, while the second person charged has a warrant out for their arrest. Candace Danielle Payne, 40, of Red Deer, and Chad Daniel Wickett, 32, also of Red Deer, were scheduled for a preliminary hearing in Red De...

Officials with the provincial government say Alberta's new $6-million program will help municipalities make energy-saving upgrades, reducing costs and emissions. Provincial officials note that arenas, community centres and other facilities consume large amounts of energy. The government says these facilities can be cos...

A non-profit in Alberta looks to build an international train route, connecting the prairie province and Montana.Integrated Travel Research and Development has released its Alberta-Montana Passenger Rail Feasibility Report.It proposed creating an 888.9 kilometre route between Calgary and Livingston, Montana. It could h...

Canada's energy sector as well as the country's main oil-producing province celebrated Wednesday as the long-awaited $34-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion officially came online. Crown corporation Trans Mountain Corp. issued a statement Wednesday confirming that oil is now moving on the expanded pipeline, which...

The Alberta government is reversing its plan to axe a subsidy program that helps low-income people pay for transit passes. It comes after a day of backlash from the mayors of Edmonton and Calgary. The province's two largest cities were set to lose $12 million in funding from the province. Social Services Minister Jason...

The province has launched the third phase of the Alberta is Calling campaign to attract skilled workers to Alberta.The campaign, which is now in-market in British Columbia, Quebec and Ontario, provides the Alberta is Calling Moving Bonus - a one time, $5,000 refundable tax credit aimed at enticing skilled trades worker...

The provincial government says an additional $3 million is included in the new budget for Alberta's sexual assault centres.The government says in a release that this means the 15 centres in Alberta will get a total of almost $17 million in the 2024-25 budget year.The province says there is another $3 million to be adde...

OTTAWA - Federal public servants will have to work from their offices at least three days a week as of Sept. 9. The new rules also stipulate that executives will have to be in the office at least four days a week. The Treasury Board of Canada says the new rules are being put in place due to the benefits of interacting...

OTTAWA - Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem says he doesn't think the federal budget tabled last month with have much of an effect on inflation. Macklem was testifying at a Senate committee alongside senior deputy governor Carolyn Rogers following the central bank's latest interest rate announcement. The governor sa...

LYTTON, B.C. - British Columbia's auditor general says his office is doing a review of the province's response to the 2021 wildfire that devastated the community of Lytton, B.C. Michael Pickup says in a video statement that the report will focus on the B.C. government's roles and responsibilities for disaster recovery,...

VANCOUVER - Police say a 44-year-old woman has been arrested in a hate-crime investigation over a speech in Vancouver that praised the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel. A statement from the Vancouver Police Department says the woman "referred to a number of terrorist organizations as heroes." More coming. Th...

OTTAWA - Human-rights groups are urging Ottawa to reverse course on plans to allow immigrant detention in federal prisons, saying vulnerable people could be exposed to unreasonably harsh conditions. Ottawa can detain foreigners without charge when they can't be identified or when it is suspected they won't show up to h...

Canada's energy sector as well as the country's main oil-producing province celebrated Wednesday as the long-awaited $34-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion officially came online. Crown corporation Trans Mountain Corp. issued a statement Wednesday confirming that oil is now moving on the expanded pipeline, which...

PHOENIX (AP) - Democrats in the Arizona Legislature are expected to make a final push Wednesday to repeal the state's long-dormant ban on nearly all abortions, which a court said can be enforced. Voting wasn't complete but the Senate had the 16 votes it needed to advance the bill. Fourteen Democrats in the Senate were ...

MOUNT HOREB, Wis. (AP) - A Wisconsin school district said an active shooter was "neutralized" outside a middle school in Mount Horeb on Wednesday, and no one inside the building was injured. Authorities said without giving details that the "alleged assailant" was harmed, and a witness said she had h...

LONDON (AP) - German tennis legend Boris Becker was discharged from bankruptcy court in London after a judge found Wednesday he had done "all that he reasonably could do" to repay creditors tens of millions of pounds. Becker fell far short of repaying his creditors in full, but Chief Insolvency and Companies ...

WESTMORELAND, Kan. (AP) - One person died Tuesday when a tornado ripped through the small city of Westmoreland in northeastern Kansas, destroying houses, RVs and outbuildings, authorities said. Pottawatomie County officials said on Facebook that a tornado struck the city of about 700 people Tuesday evening, destroying ...

NEW YORK (AP) - The pro-Palestinian demonstration that paralyzed Columbia University ended in dramatic fashion late Tuesday, with police carrying riot shields swarming the Ivy League campus, bursting into an administration building protesters took over the previous night and making dozens of arrests. A statement releas...

BEIJING (AP) - The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China said he was allowed back into his lab after he spent days locked outside, sitting in protest. Zhang Yongzhen wrote in an online post early Wednesday that authorities had "tentatively agreed" to allow him and his team to re...