Beyond Local

The Bank of Canada's strategy of rapidly increasing its key interest rate in an effort to tackle skyrocketing inflation will likely trigger a recession, says a new study.

Two head-on collisions resulting in the death of two people in the past three weeks have renewed calls for a 40-kilometre stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway through Yoho National Park to be twinned.

A male suspect wanted for possible involvement with break-in at Northern Alberta business evaded RCMP for 12 hours.

Albertan Dave Proctor is making his way home on his record-breaking attempt to run east to west across Canada in 67 days.

CRTC spokeswoman Patricia Valladao said the telecom regulator is in contact with Rogers after a major outage Friday. "Right now, our focus is on the outage and recovering from it," she wrote in an email. "When it is over, we will take all necessary actions to examine what occurred and put in place the necessary measures to prevent it from happening again." 

A new report says Canada should replace its "haphazard and unpredictable" approach to minimum wages across the country with a clear formula based on average incomes.

Airdrie-Cochrane MLA Peter Guthrie said in a video Facebook post that he supports Conservative Party (UCP) leadership hopeful Danielle Smith.

New government policy is forcing Canadians to rethink their single-use plastic consumption. Luckily, there's an app that can not only teach Canadians how to kick their wasteful habits to the curb, but also reward them in the process.

A Southern Alberta man is building a budding reputation in the craft of carving replica ships.

Airfares — often the biggest line item on a vacation — jumped 11.6 per cent year over year in May, according to Statistics Canada.