Highlights

Alberta firms well-positioned to expand as standards come into effect

Nuova Vocal Arts mounts this jazzy holiday show at Capitol Theatre

The recently updated Red List of Threatened Species, released by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, now includes 157,190 species, up from 128,918 species recorded in the 2020 report.

A truck drove into a house in Forest Lawn just after noon. On Friday afternoon just before 12:30 p.m. RCMP received a call that a truck drove into house near Frasier Drive and Foxbourugh Gardens. RCMP, EMS and Fire all responded. More to come.

In the new year, the money Alberta's municipalities receive from the province for infrastructure projects will be allocated according to a new funding model. Leaders of local governments worry that the changes fail to capture the burden of infrastructure costs in rural areas and will actually reduce funding for some communities.

The threshold for reporting accidents to the police has been raised to $5,000 from $2,000

An expansion of MAID to cover people who suffer solely from mental illness was scheduled for March 2023, but it was postponed for one year

Annexation is leading to sprawl and land fragmentation throughout Alberta, and it’s not just the big cities that are to blame.

Alberta has signed a $1.06 billion, three-year deal with the federal government to help fund improvements to the province's health-care system.

The blockbuster cancer drugs now in use were in clinical trials 10 years ago, and the drugs we may be using in the near future are already being taken by patients in clinical trials today. These clinical trials can deliver life-saving treatment to people that have exhausted their other options, but a study shows patients in rural and remote Canada are rarely included in this research.