Alberta News

EDMONTON — A woman whose surgery in Alberta for cancer in her face was delayed because hospitals were overburdened with COVID-19 says the consequences for her have been drastic. Sharon Durham of Wynyard, Sask.

CALGARY — The consequences of last summer's searing drought are being felt on farms and ranches across the Prairies, where some livestock producers are heading into a long, cold winter with dangerously low supplies of feed and water.

Time is running out for a central Alberta city to secure warming shelters for vulnerable individuals living in tattered tents in an open field unprotected from frigid winds and, soon, snow.

HIGH RIVER, Alta. — The union representing workers at one of the largest beef processing plants in Canada has given strike notice.

CALGARY — Coal mining on environmentally sensitive slopes of Alberta's Rocky Mountains wouldn't be an overall benefit to the province, a wide-ranging analysis from the University of Calgary has concluded.

CALGARY — A Calgary man has been charged in what police are calling a racist tirade against a woman of colour on a light-rail transit train. Police say a young South Asian woman was riding the train on Sept.

EDMONTON — Depending on which number-crunching study or oddsmaker you follow, the team scoring first has about a 67 per cent probability of winning a soccer game. So far the Canadian men’s national team has defied the odds.

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is dismissing an Opposition bid to have him formally censured in the legislature for his handling of COVID-19's fourth wave.

EDMONTON — A panel gathering public input on coal mining in the Alberta Rockies has been given another six weeks to hand in its report.

CALGARY — Drilling activity in the Canadian oilpatch will return to pre-pandemic levels in 2022, according to a new industry forecast.