Health

Population of seniors increasing but generally happy

The Clearwater Regional Family & Community Support Services (FCSS) recently brought attention to councils from the County, the Town of Rocky and the Village of Caroline, that like many municipalit...

Jan 08, 2021

COVID creating ICU overflow, cancelled surgeries at Red Deer Regional Hospital

Already struggling with the capacity issues it's been dealing with for years, Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre continues to be pushed to its very limits by COVID-19."I've never seen it this bad, and ...

Jan 08, 2021

Alberta’s enhanced COVID-19 restrictions extended at least two weeks

Alberta's enhanced COVID-19 restrictions implemented last month will remain in place for another two weeks through January 21."The health measures that were put in place in December have helped to red...

Jan 07, 2021

Red Deer down five to 252 active COVID-19 cases

Alberta reported another 968 cases of COVID-19 on Thursday.That's out of 14,833 test results over the past 24 hours for a positivity rate of 6.5 per cent.There are now 13,298 active cases in Alberta, ...

Jan 07, 2021

Kenney to update Albertans on COVID-19 restrictions

The Alberta government is set to announce today its review of current COVID-19 rules, but Premier Jason Kenney has indicated little will change.Kenney will join Dr. Deena Hinshaw for Thursday's COVID-...

Jan 07, 2021

Kenney says he can't guarantee all COVID restrictions will be lifted next week

EDMONTON, AB - Premier Jason Kenney says he can't guarantee all of the public health measures and restrictions introduced in November and December as COVID-19 cases spiked in the province will be lift...

Jan 07, 2021

Health minister issues statement on Alberta's first physician death due to COVID-19

Another Alberta health-care worker has died of COVID-19, the first physician death in the province from the virus. The death is one of the 25 announced yesterday by the province."I'm profoundly sadden...

Jan 07, 2021

Red Deer with 257 active cases as city sees eighth death from COVID-19

Alberta reported another 1,123 cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday.That's out of 16,127 test results over the past 24 hours for a positivity rate of seven per cent.There are now 13,450 active cases in Albe...

Jan 06, 2021

Ban on U.K. flights to Canada to expire tonight as testing scheme takes effect

OTTAWA - Transport Minister Marc Garneau says Canada's ban on flights from the United Kingdom will expire tonight at midnight.Garneau says a new set of rules that require passengers returning from abr...

Jan 06, 2021

Shandro says Albertans right to be angry over jet-setting politicians

EDMONTON - Two Alberta cabinet ministers say they've been getting an earful from constituents about their colleagues jetting off to tropical locales contrary to public-health guidelines - and that the...

Jan 05, 2021