Beyond Local

While advocates struggle to remove racist terms and restore traditional names across the Bow Valley, Parks Canada has quietly changed an offensive trail name in Banff National Park

"We want our residents to know that though we have had little or no cooperation or support from the Alberta Health Services North Zone officials, we will continue to do what we can to retain and support our doctors and to push for another surgeon." - Mayor Maureen Miller

“The big concern is when you remove a park from the Parks system, it is no longer protected."

Recruiting new rural doctors will be 'next to impossible,' says doctor

CALGARY — WestJet Airlines Ltd. is offering refunds to customers with European flights that it cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

CALGARY — Real-world Jann Arden is handling the COVID-19 pandemic better than she thinks TV Jann Arden would.

CALGARY — People may have found it odd when thieves made off with truckloads of hot tubs and beef within days of each other in rural Alberta, but experts say the capers highlight a growing crime perpetrated by sophisticated culprits.

“If these people leave, do you know how many people will be without family doctors? It will be in the thousands."

“The die off of Jasper’s entire Maligne caribou population is a tragic, predictable result of decades-long habitat and wildlife errors."

Anyone that was in the Black Rock Mountain area in Don Getty Wildland Provincial Park between Aug. 30-Sept. 4 is asked to contact Alberta Wildfire to assist with the investigation