Tag Archives: Environment

The provincial government says it is implementing new technology for detecting and managing wildfires across the province.Alberta Wildfire uses drones to help detect hot spots on the landscape, plan a...

FORT MCMURRAY - It has been five years since a wildfire destroyed large parts of Fort McMurray. Here is a look back at how events unfolded:May 1, 2016 - A fire starts in a remote part of forest southw...

Caring for and spending time in the green spaces around our homes has been a refuge for many during the pandemic. In support of biodiversity, the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) is suggesting that ...

CALGARY - Janice Romick could see it coming. The rabbit breeder for 40 years in Cold Lake, Alta., says she saw the writing on the wall before a deadly rabbit virus appeared last month in the southern ...

The provincial government says changes to the outdated five-decade-old Forests Act will bolster Alberta's competitive forest sector by supporting reliable and consistent access to trees. These changes...

An Environmental Appeals Board hearing will take place later this spring over the approval of a project that would allow the Town of Blackfalds to drain stormwater into Lacombe Lake.The approval under...

KANANASKIS, Alta. - Albertans hoping to escape to a popular provincial recreation area in the Rockies during the COVID-19 pandemic will soon have to pay for the privilege. Kananaskis Country, which is...

An Alberta government official says the impact of coal mining in the Rocky Mountains on the province's tourism industry wasn't considered before a policy protecting those summits and foothills was rev...

The Conservative MP for Red Deer - Lacombe says central Alberta stands to benefit from his party's proposed new climate change plan.Blaine Calkins says the plan would scrap the current federal carbon ...

During the pandemic, many of us have spent several months at home. To pass the time, we have started tackling projects that have been on our to-do lists for months, even years. For me, that meant clea...