Beyond Local

EDMONTON — Actor Simu Liu has a song in his heart and a debut album on his mind.

BERLIN (AP) — Governments gave their blessing on Sunday to a major new U.N. report on climate change, after approval was held up by a battle between rich and developing countries over emissions targets and financial aid to vulnerable nations.

EDMONTON — The Alberta government says $1 million in funding is to be used to train rural health-care providers to better support victims of sexual assault.

The Alberta government says it's moving to force oilpatch companies to make good on their unpaid municipal taxes.

OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says China's attempts to broker peace in Ukraine will likely just help Russia re-arm and prolong the conflict.

CALGARY — On a wintry day last November, Daphne Kay looked up at an expanse of gleaming solar panels located on Cowessess First Nation reserve land just east of Reginaand and cried.

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the families of two Edmonton police officers who were fatally shot this week will each receive $100,000 from the province's Heroes' Fund.

NEW YORK (AP) — Spring has sprung! Monday marked the spring equinox — at least for those in the Northern Hemisphere. But what does that actually mean? WHAT IS THE SPRING EQUINOX? As the Earth travels around the sun, it does so at an angle.

WASHINGTON — Joe Biden's last official visit to Canada came with a palpable sense of foreboding. Change was in the air. Authoritarian leaders in Syria and Turkey were consolidating power. Britain had voted to leave the European Union.

CALGARY — An Indigenous-led initiative is still pursuing ownership of the Trans Mountain pipeline, in spite of the project's ballooning price tag.