Category Archives: Alberta

ROCKY MOUNTAIN HOUSE - A second earthquake in less than a week shook central Alberta on Sunday, although a seismologist notes it occurred in a different geologic region than a quake last week thatR...

PICTURE BUTTE - Immigration and refugees have dominated the news cycle for some time now. Those issues, however, hit a little closer to home for a group of Picture Butte High School students. With tho...

VANCOUVER - Facebook should ban posts by so-called anti-vaxxers in order to protect children against measles and other contagious diseases, says a British Columbia mother who launched a petition urgin...

CALGARY, AB - Canadian Pacific Railway announced Friday it plans to appeal a ministerial order from Transport Canada requiring the use of handbrakes on all trains that are stopped on mountain slopes. ...

RED DEER – ***Up-DATE — 32 vehicles and 8 semis were in the ditch between Red Deer and Edmonton on Friday afternoon. RCMP lifted tow restrictions on that secion of highway at 7:30 Saturdy ...

LETHBRIDGE – A Lethbridge Court of Queen’s Bench judge has ruled that statements both David and Collet Stephan made to an RCMP officer and to a child abuse consultant at Alberta Children&#...

RED DEER — It's official. Red Deer College will soon be known as Red Deer University. The official announcement was made Tuesday morning, one year after the provincial government gave college th...

EDMONTON — The Alberta Energy Regulator has ordered a company to suspend fracking operations at a well site linked to an earthquake that was felt in the communities of Red Deer and Sylvan Lake. ...

EDMONTON — Alberta’s Premier has called on the federal government to quote, ” stop its navel-gazing about its internal controversies” and stick up for Alberta farmers. Rachel N...

EDMONTON — Jason Kenney and the United Conservatives are promising to slash the corporate tax rate by four percentage points over the next four years, an action Kenney is calling the "Job Creati...