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Alberta fires board of real estate regulator, cites paralyzing dysfunction

EDMONTON -- The Alberta government is moving to fire the entire board that regulates the provincial real-estate industry on the grounds it is hopelessly dysfunctional and wracked by infighting.Bill 15...

Oct 09, 2019 Minister of Service Alberta Nate Glubish announces proposed changes to the Real Estate Act.

Councillors vote to implement Municipal Housing Strategy plan

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge City Council has voted unanimously to approve the implementation of the city's first Municipal Housing Strategy. The plan, with 51 recommended actions, will include identif...

Oct 07, 2019 Martin Thomsen presents the Municipal Housing Strategy to City Council Monday

Mounties need help to find Constable Scarecrow

LLOYDMINSTER- Constable Scarecrow is missing and RCMP in Lloydminster want help getting their colleague back.Police say the life-size cutout, usually used to enforce traffic safety, was last seen on S...

Oct 04, 2019 Constable scarecrow (middle) - The Canadian Press

Association of Nigerian doctors calls Alberta judge’s comments racist

EDMONTON -- An Alberta judge's comments about an expert witness at the trial of parents who were accused in their son's death were "prejudiced, racist, xenophobic and anti-immigrant," says a letter by...

Oct 04, 2019 Collet and David Stephan outside Lethbridge courthouse -- LNN

UCP Government extending NDP exemption for farm trucks, school buses says Ag Minister

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Provincial Agriculture Minister Devin Dreeshen offered some brief comments Thursday (Oct. 3) while in Lethbridge, on the province's decision to review regulations that relax the requi...

Oct 04, 2019 Provincial Agriculture Minister Devin Dreeshen - Photo: Courtesy Province of Alberta

Province announces online form submission tool for seniors

EDMONTON -- The provincial government has announced a new online tool that will make it easier for seniors to receive financial assistance.Josephine Pon, Minister of Seniors and Housing, along with Gr...

Oct 02, 2019 Minister Josephine Pon raised the International Day of Older Persons flag after announcing a new online tool that will make life better for seniors. (Government of Alberta photo)

Mother walks from Piikani Nation to Calgary in honour of her two daughters

Piikani Nation, AB - A Piikani mother and activist for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, embarked on her second annual two day walk to Calgary Wednesday morning (Oct. 2), to join the annual Siste...

Oct 02, 2019 Mother and Activist Stephanie English - Photo: Courtesy Piikani Nation News

Humboldt Broncos families upset by Alberta trucking regulation review

EDMONTON - Several families affected by the deadly Humboldt Broncos hockey bus crash say they are upset by an Alberta review of trucking regulations.Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba implemented mand...

Oct 02, 2019 Bronco bus crash site -- The Canadian Press

Salary freeze for Red Deer city council

RED DEER -- Red Deer city council will see no salary increase this year.Council voted Monday to freeze the salaries for the mayor and its other eight members at their current rates."As we continue to ...

Oct 01, 2019 Red Deer Countil RDNewsNOW

Snow-Day for numerous school districts, U-of-L and College

LETHBRIDGE -- A Travel Advisory has been issued for Southern Alberta. Residents are being told to avoid all travel from the BC border to the Saskatchewan border along Highway-3 and along all roads sou...

Sep 29, 2019 Buses not running