Beyond Local

The upcoming G7 leaders' summit in Kananaskis and the demanding schedules of Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney make seeing the Edmonton Oilers battle the Florida Panthers on home ice Saturday impossible.

The former Humboldt Broncos player, paralyzed from the chest down in the 2018 bus crash that killed 16 people and injured 13 others, has been in a wheelchair for the past seven years. On Thursday a new exoskeleton allowed him to walk along a 40-foot track in Calgary.

Alberta residents now have stronger privacy protections and easier access to government information thanks to new laws that came into effect this week.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is hosting Trump and world leaders from France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, Italy and the European Union for the three-day summit starting Sunday in the Rocky Mountains southwest of Calgary.

Former Canadian prime ministers Joe Clark and Jean Chrétien and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith are among the notable names set to speak at a conference today ahead of next week's G7 leaders' summit in Kananaskis.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and three of her ministers got an earful on Wednesday night from southern Alberta locals at a rowdy, hours-long town hall to discuss the province's coal policy.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been enthusiastic about reviving a plan to ship oilsands crude to Prince Rupert on the northern B.C. coast for export to Asia.

Internal emails show how the mayor and city staff helped draft and pitch a proposal for a publicly funded, privately delivered urgent care centre in Airdrie, Alberta.

Research from the Parkland Institute at the University of Alberta shows that not only are women not receiving equal treatment with their own health care, they’re also not being treated fairly in their jobs across the province.

As the G7 leaders prepare for the annual meeting in Kananaskis, which first hosted the summit in 2002, the world's eyes will be on the region's dense forest and jagged alpine.