Tag Archives: Environment

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Critics of Canada's most controversial cross-border pipeline projects aren't taking their demise for granted under president-elect Joe Biden. A new report from the U.S.-based Rainfo...

OTTAWA - The Canada Energy Regulator says reaching net-zero emissions over the next 30 years will to require a much more aggressive transition away from oil and gas.The annual Energy Futures report re...

COALDALE, AB. - RCMP were called out to jackknifed semi-trailer unit around 4:30 Monday afternoon. The semi was blocking both lanes of Highway 3, about three kilometres west of Lethbridge. The semi wa...

SMITHERS, B.C. -- If it`s an out-of-the-way border crossing in northern B.C., chances are they get more than their share of wildlife encounters. That was the case recently, at the Stewart, B.C. - Hyde...

OTTAWA, ONT. -- The Canadian government is providing a bundle of money to Alberta, during what it calls the "economically challenging time caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic." However, the money i...

EDMONTON - Caribou herds in Canada's Rocky Mountains are now so precarious that Parks Canada is preparing a plan to round up females from nearly vanished herds and pen them in a captive breeding progr...

MEDICINE HAT, AB. -- A new solar project south of Medicine Hat is proving renewable energy can work in conjunction with oil and gas development.Alberta Solar One is a $20-million project being built n...

Aspiring paleontologist Nathan Hrushkin speaks with pride about his "killer resume." The Grade 7 student from Calgary discovered a rare dinosaur skeleton earlier this year at Horseshoe Canyon in the B...

EDMONTON, AB. -- The Municipal District of Taber is in line for nearly $13 million to improve the Horsefly Regional Emergency Spillway to protect the region against overland flooding.Officials say upg...

LETHBRIDGE, AB. -- An old comedy bit says, "you know it's windy when there are white caps in the bathroom bowl" - but, in Southern Alberta, you know it's windy when semis can't stay on the road, or yo...