Category Archives: Alberta
Win "Alberta Experience Packages" and support STARS in new fundraiser raffle
LETHBRIDGE, AB - "It started as a project to help STARS and it grew into this huge online raffle thanks to the support of the Alberta businesses and those in the Lethbridge area included in that, to a...
Jan 12, 2021
Nominations open for Alberta Order of Excellence
EDMONTON, AB - Albertans can nominate citizens of note for the province's highest honour.Nominations are open for the Alberta Order of Excellence. Up to 10 people will be inducted into the Order this ...
Jan 12, 2021
Paramedics & EMS can now get COVID-19 vaccine in Alberta
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Government of Alberta is expanding the eligibility for who can get vaccinated against COVID-19 right now.Premier Jason Kenney announced Monday that paramedics and emergency medica...
Jan 11, 2021
NHLers know not everyone’s happy they’re playing: ‘We’re not blind’
Connor McDavid knows what it looks like to some.Millionaire hockey players travelling province to province for games when everyone else is asked to refrain from doing anything remotely similar as the ...
Jan 11, 2021
Alberta mayors plea to save local 911 EMS dispatch as consolidation starts Jan. 12
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The mayors of Lethbridge, Calgary, Red Deer, and the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo are making a last-ditch effort to prevent the consolidation of 911 EMS dispatch services.Las...
Jan 11, 2021
Alberta RCMP reviewing whether COVID-19 death of meat-plant worker was criminal
CALGARY, AB- RCMP in Alberta are reviewing whether the COVID-19 death of a worker at a Cargill meat-packing plant last spring is a criminal matter.Cpl. Tammy Keibel, district media relations officer f...
Jan 11, 2021
2021 Polar Plunge for Special Olympics Alberta goes virtual
LETHBRIDGE, AB - On a more normal year, Albertans would be getting ready to take a plunge into cold water as part of the Law Enforcement Torch Run Polar Plunge for Special Olympics Alberta.Due to COVI...
Jan 11, 2021
811 new cases of COVID-19 reported in Alberta Sunday, 11 new in Lethbridge
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The province reported less than 1,000 new cases of COVID-19 in Sunday's virus update.811 new infections were confirmed for the last 24 hours on January 10.The new cases bring Alberta'...
Jan 10, 2021
Three sent to hospital after head-on collision in Granum
GRANUM, AB - A head-on collision in Granum is under investigation by Fort Macleod RCMP.Mounties responded at around 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, January 9 to Highway 519. They say a Nissan Rogue travelling ...
Jan 10, 2021
989 new COVID cases reported in Alberta Saturday, 31 new deaths
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The province has released the latest update on COVID-19. On Saturday, Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Deena Hinshaw reported 989 new cases in the last 24 hours. 13,540 tests were ...
Jan 09, 2021