Category Archives: Alberta
'We will rise from those ashes:' Ranch still rebuilding two years after wildfire
CALGARY - Melody Garner-Skiba and her family have had some tough conversations since a wildfire raged into Waterton Lakes National Park in southeastern Alberta two years ago, spread into nearby grassl...
Aug 30, 2019
Scars of 2017 wildfire still evident in Waterton park as rebuild continues
WATERTON, Alta. - Deb Watson returned to her family's trail-riding business after the Waterton wildfire to find little more than a pop machine melted into a bubbly puddle with coins inside fused toget...
Aug 30, 2019
Former Bountiful leader James Oler handed one-year jail sentence and 18-months probation
CRANBROOK, B.C. -- An ex-bishop of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, from Boutiful, B.C., James Oler, will spend a year behind bars.Justice Martha Devlin handed down a on...
Aug 29, 2019 James Oler outside Cranbrook Courthouse -- The Canadian Press
$500 million solar energy project coming to Vulcan
VULCAN COUNTY, AB - Canada's largest solar energy project is on its way to Vulcan County.Greengate Power Corporation has received approval from the Alberta Utilities Commission to build and operate it...
Aug 28, 2019 A rendered image of the Travers Solar project (Photo courtesy Greengate Power)
Majority of Alberta opioid overdoses related to fentanyl poisoning
EDMONTON -- A new report says more than 4,300 drug overdoses have been reversed with a 100-per-cent success rate through the province's supervised consumption sites.The report from the Alberta Communi...
Aug 27, 2019 Opioid refuse -- LLN
Oil prices, tax income keep Alberta first-quarter revenue in line with last year
EDMONTON -- A first-quarter fiscal update from the Alberta government is reporting consistent revenues compared with the same period last year.The provincial revenue was $13.4 billion from April to Ju...
Aug 27, 2019 Alberta Legislature -- LethbridgeNewsNOW
More than $100,000 in stolen property recovered in Crowsnest Pass
CROWSNEST PASS, AB - RCMP in the Crowsnest Pass have found a significant amount of stolen property.The first of two search warrants was executed on a rural property where two large flat deck trailers,...
Aug 22, 2019 RCMP logo. (Lethbridge News Now)
Ammonia leak may force evacuations of El Molino Foods in Claresholm
Claresholm, AB - UPDATE (4:15 pm): All staff at El Molino Foods have been safely evacuated. The hazmat crew at Lethbridge Fire and Emergency Services arrived on scene at 3:30 pm. A further update is e...
Aug 22, 2019 El Molino Foods in Claresholm. (Supplied by Google Maps)
Only half of Southern Albertan crops rated "Good to Excellent"
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The latest report from Alberta Agriculture and Forestry (AAF) is not painting a bright picture in Southern Alberta, but it does depend on what you are growing.In the region that encom...
Aug 21, 2019 Wheat fields in Southern Alberta. (Lethbridge News Now)
Alberta to limit oil production to end of 2020 as pipeline delays persist
CALGARY - The Alberta government says some oil companies will have to limit their production until the end of 2020 as pipeline delays persist.Energy Minister Sonya Savage says the current limit is bei...
Aug 20, 2019 Energy Minister Sonya Savage - The Canadian Press