Beyond Local

Conservative accusations of planned green tax on pickup trucks are lies say federal environment minister.

Newly elected UCP MLA and party leader hopeful Brian Jean says if he becomes leader of the United Conservative Party (UCP) he doesn't trust Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre MLA Jason Nixon and will imediately reopen the nomination process in the constituency, allowing disqualified candidate Tim Hoven a chance to seek the party nomination.

A 16-year-old boy who had been in hospital following a reported assault outside an Edmonton high school earlier this month has died.

Canadian human rights organizations say the 40th anniversary of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is an opportunity to acknowledge its shortcomings and call for change.

Areas in Bow Valley again are being seasonally closed to allow wolves chance to raise young undisturbed.

Christine Enns said she was shocked when a rapid test showed she had tested positive for COVID-19. Enns, who received two doses of COVID-19 vaccine and a booster shot, already had the virus in early February and thought reinfection was rare.

Sending clean drugs to users is one way a Vancouver group is trying to prevent drug poisonings in B.C., where 174 people died of overdoses in February.

An ASIRT report concluded police were preserving their lives when they shot and killed a man who shot at them with a rifle out of the window of home in Northern Alberta.

Canada's greenhouse gas emissions plummeted to their lowest level in almost three decades in 2020 as pandemic restrictions kept cars off the road and grounded airplanes for months on end.

A retired Southern Alberta couple whose home burned down are caught in limbo as their insurance and Town administration try to determine who is responsible for paying their property tax. The fire victims have been left to pay their taxes and say the experience is leaving them feeling re-victimized.