Alberta News

BROOKS, Alta. — A fast-moving weather system in Alberta brought both fire and ice, resulting in the evacuation of a village one day and a multi-vehicle collision that closed the Trans-Canada Highway between Medicine Hat and Calgary the next.

EDMONTON — The Alberta government has tasked a five-member committee with finding out how people feel about open-pit coal mining in the Rocky Mountains and their eastern slopes.

EDMONTON — Alberta's top doctor says the roughly 900 people in the province under 55 who have received a first dose of Oxford-AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine are at low risk of complications and there's ample time to figure out what should be done for

EDMONTON — Alberta has struck a "fiercely independent" five-member committee to assess how people in the province feel about coal mining in the Rocky Mountains. Energy Minister Sonya Savage said the committee is expected to report by mid-November.

CALGARY — The Alberta Energy Regulator says an oil and gas company under court protection from creditors is reporting the leak of an estimated 100,000 litres of oilfield liquids from a pipeline in northern Alberta.

EDMONTON — Alberta's proposed new curriculum for young students focuses on literacy, numeracy and practical skills including computer coding, budgets and public speaking.

CALGARY — Oil and gas producer Whitecap Resources Inc.

EDMONTON — The posting for a new high-level Alberta government job supposed to help the province align with environmental concerns from financial markets seems more about talk than action, observers say.

CARMANGAY, Alta. — Officials say grass fires in southern Alberta were brought under control Sunday, hours after a village began evacuating. Residents of Carmangay, Alta.

EDMONTON — The director of a children's movie about Bigfoot wants to thank the Alberta government's energy centre for starting a "ludicrous" fight over the film.