Beyond Local

Regulated utility ATCO Electric has agreed to pay a $31 million administrative penalty after an Alberta Utilities Commission investigation found it deliberately overpaid a First Nation group for work on a new transmission line.

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

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

The federal government has introduced a carbon capture tax credit and experts are saying the money could help make it more feasible for businesses to create greener energy.

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.

A new plan from the federal government will see the industry cut emissions to 110 megatonnes by 2030. “If we're really going to work towards some of these numbers, we need every tool put on the table available to [the oil and] gas sector and we need them as quickly as possible,” said Tristan Goodman, president of the Explorers and Producers Association of Canada.

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.