Category Archives: Alberta
Craft beer takes off in Alberta with number of breweries expected to rise in 2018
MEDICINE HAT – Craft Beer has been making a splash across Alberta in recent years. Terry Rock with the Alberta Small Brewers Association said they gave out 18 new licenses to breweries in 2017, ...
Jan 01, 2018
Extreme Cold Warnings in effect for all of Alberta
ALBERTA - Extreme Cold Warnings cover the entire province today, Dec. 31, with Environment Canada stating that a prolonged period of very cold wind chills are expected. In Lethbridge, Sunday's forecas...
Dec 31, 2017
Hepatitis A confirmed in food handler at Okotoks Safeway
OKOTOKS – Alberta Health Services is issuing a public alert after a food handler at a Safeway in Okotoks was found to have hepatitis A. The public health agency is warning that patrons who ate d...
Dec 30, 2017
Natural gas outage affecting area of far northern Alberta
MACKENZIE COUNTY, Alta. – Alberta’s Emergency Management Agency has issued an alert about natural gas outages affecting people who live in the north as the region deals with frigid tempera...
Dec 30, 2017
Drivers urged to use extra caution after pickup collides with snowplow
COALDALE - Coaldale Fire officials are reminding drivers to use additional caution around snowplows and to give them extra space to work, following a collision early Friday morning, Dec. 29, on Highwa...
Dec 29, 2017
Medicine Hat man charged following 'serious assault’ in Taber
TABER - A 45-year-old Medicine Hat man has been charged in connection with what Taber Police are calling a serious assault last weekend. The charges against Scott Shannon Wallace include aggravated as...
Dec 28, 2017
Calgary photographer produces viral ice bubble video during cold snap
CALGARY - It’s cold enough on the prairies to make ice bubbles. Calgary photographer Chris Ratzlaff spent part of Boxing Day outside, freezing and photographing bubbles. He created the bubbles u...
Dec 28, 2017
Two Alberta students awarded Prairie Equity Scholarships
ALBERTA - Two Alberta post-secondary students have been selected to receive Jim Pattison Broadcast Group Prairie Equity Scholarships. Jessie Weisner is a second-year student majoring in Broadcast News...
Dec 28, 2017
Premier Rachel Notley promises to lay out budget balancing plan in 2018
EDMONTON - Premier Rachel Notley says 2018 will focus on Alberta’s fragile but rebounding economy, specifically a road map to get back to budget balance in five years. “Presenting a respon...
Dec 28, 2017
Non-drinkers pushing bars for better non-alcoholic cocktails
REGINA – For years, Carolyn Rebeyka has met friends at the same Regina bar every Friday afternoon for drinks. Sometimes they’d be celebrating a birthday or triumph at work, other times it ...
Dec 27, 2017