Health

Committee working to recruit several physicians to Blackfalds

Efforts are ramping up in the town of Blackfalds to recruit more physicians to the community.Annamarie Fuchs, chair of the Blackfalds Health Professional Attraction and Retention Committee (BHPARC), s...

Feb 06, 2021

Video shows heated exchange between cashier and mask-less customer at Lethbridge grocery store

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A seemingly normal work shift for Brynn McNeely turned into so much more this past week.The 17-year-old is a cashier at London Road Market in Lethbridge.On Wednesday, February 3 at ar...

Feb 05, 2021

Red Deer mother seeks accountability following son’s detainment at Calgary airport

A Red Deer mother wants accountability after she says her son was detained because his COVID-19 test results were considered inadequate.Rebekah McDonald posted an emotional video to social media on Su...

Feb 04, 2021

Hinshaw explains "more cautious" approach to lifting COVID restrictions

Albertans are set to see some COVID-19 restrictions eased next week.It won't, however, look like what we saw last spring and summer. Back in May and June, the province entered the first two stages of ...

Feb 03, 2021

Red Deer's active COVID-19 case count up by 11, one more death

Alberta confirmed 259 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday.That's out of 6,837 test results over the past 24 hours for a positivity rate of about 3.5 per cent.The number of active cases in the province ...

Feb 03, 2021

Dr. Hinshaw shares COVID-19 update for Feb. 3

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...

Feb 03, 2021

MP Dreeshen blasts Liberal government over failure to deliver vaccines

Red Deer-Mountain View MP Earl Dreeshen is calling out the federal government over what he says is a failure to deliver COVID-19 vaccines to Canadians, specifically central Albertans. "It is quite cle...

Feb 03, 2021

$68.5 million announced for Alberta treatment and care facilities

EDMONTON, AB- Premier Jason Kenney announced today $68.5 million in supports will go towards Albertans and staff in continuing care, residential addiction and mental health treatment facilities and ho...

Feb 03, 2021

Ronald McDonald House Charities reimagines winter fundraiser

The restrictions surrounding COVID-19 have led Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) Alberta to reimagine two of their biggest winter fundraising events. Since playing games in local hockey and curli...

Feb 03, 2021

Canada to get up to 1.1 m more doses by March through global vaccine alliance

OTTAWA - Canada could get more than one million additional doses of COVID-19 vaccine by the end of March through a global vaccine sharing initiative known as COVAX. But as with most things COVID-19, v...

Feb 03, 2021