Category Archives: Alberta

Breakfast program provides food for thought
COALDALE – Getting kids up for school can be challenge. On this morning, however, Jesse Hale and his crew arrive early at Jennie Emery Elementary School - by choice. "I like helping out," says t...
Feb 03, 2018

Innisfail - Sylvan Lake MLA Don MacIntyre steps down
RED DEER – Don MacIntyre, MLA for the Innisfail – Sylvan Lake constituency, says he is retiring from politics. The United Conservative Party sent out a media release saying MacIntyre had l...
Feb 02, 2018

Kainai First Nation receives provincial grant for climate change education
LETHBRIDGE – For the next two years, non-profit group “The Rockies Institute” will partner with the Blood Tribe and Kainai First Nation to better understand climate change, and how i...
Feb 02, 2018

Experts question Alberta power threats to B.C. as pipeline politics intensify
CALGARY – Electricity experts are questioning the effectiveness of Alberta’s promise to suspend power purchase talks with British Columbia as a way to sway the West Coast province on pipel...
Feb 02, 2018

Claresholm Councillor files human rights complaint against the town
CLARESHOLM – Claresholm Mayor Doug MacPherson believes it’s a first. After first telling town council at a meeting she was injured in an alleged home invasion nearly three weeks ago, Counc...
Feb 02, 2018

Alberta MLA Derek Fildebrandt can't return to UCP caucus; Kenney
EDMONTON – An Alberta legislature member who once sat for the United Conservative is not being allowed back in the party. Derek Fildebrandt was in court in Didsbury, Alta., this morning to face ...
Feb 02, 2018

Alberta to suspend electricity purchase talks with B.C.
EDMONTON – Premier Rachel Notley says her government is suspending talks with British Columbia on the purchase of electricity from that province. She says it’s the first step in Alberta...
Feb 01, 2018

Kids: February is RCMP Name the Puppy month
INNISFAIL– Again this year, the RCMP needs help naming the puppies that will become Canada’s future RCMP police service dogs. Children are being asked to choose the names of 13 German shep...
Feb 01, 2018

Legislative harassment policy may include complaints about eye-rolling and finger-wagging
EDMONTON – An Alberta legislature committee will consider a new formal process that deals with harassment complaints made by one M-L-A against another. If the plan is eventually approved, it wil...
Feb 01, 2018

Delayed start for West Jet Link service to five locations, including Lethbridge
CALGARY – Just two months after West Jet announced it would be offering a new regional air service which would include Lethbridge, the airline issued an apology early Wednesday (Jan 31) evening ...
Jan 31, 2018