Beyond Local

Brett Kissel is using his music to slow down and answer the question 'What is Life?' with his latest album. Fans will have a chance to see his band perform virtually on May 3 right from his own backyard. “It’s like a virtual invitation for everyone to come on out to the ranch and see what it’s all about," Kissel told Lakeland Today.

Parsons said victims like him need more support, from mental health help to deal with the trauma exposed by each impact statement to legal advice to better understand the parole system and what to expect from it.

Stephen’s Backpacks Society in Airdrie has found another creative way to help kids in need, this time by selling custom hand-made cutting boards.

Adopting a senior dog isn't for everyone, but if it fits, there can be great joy in store for animal and adopter.

“Hopefully, with luck, they will have more kits … she could be giving birth soon,” said Dan Rafla, a human-wildlife management specialist with Banff National Park.

To reach that goal over a decade, around 33 million trees would have to go into the ground each month in a tree-planting season and in nine years that number grows to about 37 million trees.

Nearly half of Cargill's workers tested positive last spring and the plant was shut down for two weeks.

"I wanted to take a moment to underscore the gravity of the situation that we're in today, and how bad things could get if Albertans don't make a real effort in the next few weeks."

Beginning the morning of April 29 and running for two and a half days, workers at the site of Canada's largest COVID-19 outbreak will be able to access the Moderna vaccine.

Over the next four weeks, the Rocky Mountain Outlook will examine several incidents where guided trips into the mountains of western Canada resulted in avalanche fatalities. Caught up in these events are the guides trained and hired to protect public safety, the clients who hired them, and the friends and family left behind.