Category Archives: Alberta

LETHBRIDGE: It might be expected that heavy insecticide use is the best way to keep insects at bay in agricultural crops. However, a U-of-L professor has found low levels of insecticide may be all tha...

EDMONTON - Former Conservative cabinet minister Jason Kenney appears set to take a summer road trip in Alberta. Kenney, following his announcement in early July that he plans to leave federal politics...

FORT MCMURRAY - Less than two months after Fort McMurray, Alta., residents were allowed to return to the city after a devastating fire, the municipality has activated its emergency operations centre t...

ALBERTA – The provincial Integrated Traffic Unit has extra officers patrolling Alberta highways this weekend, to help make sure you make it home safely. RCMP Sergeant Darrin Turnbull says the pr...

BRAGG CREEK – Foothills MP John Barlow and his team are once again taking on the 200-km journey from the Crowsnest Pass to the Bar U Ranch, in support of Easter Seals Camp Horizon. The camp welc...

OTTAWA: Move over, British Columbia: Canada’s oilpatch next door in Alberta is on track to have Canada’s most aggressive carbon pricing system by 2020. That’s the conclusion of a new...

BURMIS – Pincher Creek RCMP are at the scene of a semi tractor trailer rollover collision on Highway 3, about 100 metres west of Highway 507 in the Burmis area. The semi was the only vehicle inv...

CROWSNEST PASS – Crowsnest Pass RCMP are reporting that a missing Calgary man has been found dead. After leaving Calgary on Friday (July 22), 41-year Steve Lawrence Danbrook didn’t return ...

STANDOFF: The Blood Tribe Police Service (BTPS) has recovered a cache of stolen property but, need the public’s help tracking down thieves. There have been six break and enters reported over the...

OTTAWA: The Alberta wildfires torched the Canadian economy in May, which saw the GDP contract by 0.6 per cent - the country’s deepest one-month decline in more than seven years. On Friday, Stati...