Beyond Local

Fire season has arrived, and vigilance is key

EDMONTON — Seventeen-year-old Amara Mogos is dreading the next two weeks. The Grade 12 student says going back and forth between online learning and regular school has been draining for her and many of her classmates.

Cooper "has apologized for his behaviour as Speaker, but he continues to put all Albertans at increased risk from COVID-19"

EDMONTON — Education Minister Adriana LaGrange says the group representing Alberta teachers is playing politics with a proposed new kindergarten to Grade 6 curriculum and isn’t sincere about real bridge-building.

"It's the first positive news we've had in over a year."

HIGH RIVER, Alta. — A COVID-19 vaccination clinic for thousands of workers at a southern Alberta beef-packing plant isn't going ahead as planned due to a lack of vaccine.

The arrests, which occurred between Jan. 1 to March 31, 2021, came as the result of investigative referrals from the RCMP’s National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre.

Motorists need to take extra caution with the additional traffic, says Westlock Staff Sgt.

OTTAWA — Governments are looking at new limits for travel both into and within Canada, as the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to set heartbreaking records.

MINNEAPOLIS — Former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday of murder and manslaughter for pinning George Floyd to the pavement with his knee on the Black man’s neck in a case that touched off worldwide protests, violence and a furio