Health

Sylvan Lake looking at face coverings bylaw, Lacombe not yet

Sylvan Lake town council will consider making face coverings mandatory in all civic facilities.Council has asked administration to craft a bylaw. If ready, it could be back for debate at a special mee...

Nov 28, 2020

Alberta granting more peace officers power to enforce COVID-19 rules

Hundreds of additional peace officers are now able to enforce Alberta's newly enhanced COVID-19 rules.Earlier this week, the provincial government re-declared a state of public health emergency and im...

Nov 27, 2020

Red Deer down three to 155 active COVID-19 cases

Alberta announced another 1,227 cases of COVID-19 on Friday.That's out of 16,284 tests completed over the past 24 hours for a positivity rate of 7.5 per cent.There are now 14,217 active cases in the p...

Nov 27, 2020

Dr. Hinshaw shares COVID-19 update for Nov. 27

Alberta's chief medical officer of health is set to provide her latest update on the COVID-19 situation in the province.Dr. Deena Hinshaw will speak during a news conference scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Yo...

Nov 27, 2020

Local school districts ready for at-home learning

Thousands of families with school-aged children throughout the province are quickly scrambling to ensure their kids are ready for online learning next week.This after the government announced on Tuesd...

Nov 27, 2020

Ponoka adjusts to new pandemic restrictions

The Town of Ponoka is implementing new restrictions, effective immediately, until further notice in response to new provincial health restrictions announced this week to help reduce the spread of COVI...

Nov 27, 2020

Flu vaccinations well up in Alberta over last year

Nearly 1.3 million Albertans have been immunized for influenza this year. That's more than 228,000 more people than at the same time last year. "What's more, we have still not seen a single lab-confir...

Nov 27, 2020

Red Deer MLA rejects ‘socialist lockdown’ over COVID-19

The MLA for Red Deer-South says going into lockdown over surging COVID-19 cases in the province would be the wrong thing to do. Jason Stephan delivered a member statement in the Alberta Legislature de...

Nov 27, 2020

Emergency doctors say city councillor wrong about them being 'muzzled' over COVID-19

A group of 21 physicians who make up the emergency room team at Red Deer Regional Hospital says it unanimously disagrees with comments made this week by City Councillor Buck Buchanan.During a meeting ...

Nov 26, 2020

Alberta to pilot rapid COVID-19 testing program

Alberta will soon begin piloting point-of-care rapid testing for COVID-19 at select sites across the province.The government says in a release that over the last two months, Alberta Health Services (A...

Nov 26, 2020