Beyond Local

The Bonnyville Regional Fire Authority and the Bonnyville and District FCSS hosted community barbecues and information campaign on emergency preparedness with their partnering municipalities to raise awareness during Emergency Preparedness Week.

It's more important than ever to stay active, especially into our later decades.

“Just after 10:30 a.m., EMS paramedics did respond to the Troll Falls area to transport an adult male to Canmore General Hospital via ground ambulance,” said Adam Loria, Alberta Health Services public education officer. “[He was] in stable, non-life threatening condition, however, he did sustain a serious injury.”

As Republican-governed states across the nation advance myriad bills targeting transgender young people, America’s faith leaders are starkly divided in their assessment.

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — In a modern conservation laboratory on the grounds of the former Auschwitz camp, a man wearing blue rubber gloves uses a scalpel to scrape away rust from the eyelets of small brown shoes worn by children before they were murdered in gas chambers.

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — When Luis López was lost in Panama's Darien Gap last year with his wife, then seven months pregnant, their two young children and her grandmother, he often knelt in the mud to beg God not to abandon them.

When Jessica Moorhouse was graduating high school, she thought about taking a gap year before enrolling in post-secondary. Like many teenagers, she was interested in travelling before signing on for another several years of education.

Cochranites with an interest in bees who are also looking for a fun outdoor activity for the kids this spring and summer will have the opportunity to take part in research at the same time starting next month at Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park.

TORONTO — Montreal restaurants dominate Canada’s 100 Best Restaurants List with 27 eateries on the annual ranking, led by Mon Lapin in the No. 1 spot.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes appears to be soon bound for prison after an appeals court Tuesday rejected her bid to remain free while she tries to overturn her conviction in a blood-testing hoax that brought her fleeting fame and fortune.