Alberta News

EDMONTON — The Alberta government is implementing 11 changes to physician rules and fees starting April 1: Complex modifiers: These fees would mandate more time be spent with patients with complex needs, 25 minutes instead of 15, before an extra fee

HYTHE, Alta. — RCMP say all but three bison on the lam near a village in northwestern Alberta have been rounded up. The owner of the herd had been parked Tuesday evening at a service station in Hythe, Alta.

CALGARY — Opponents of the Coastal GasLink pipeline's planned route have brought rail traffic to a standstill with blockades in support of five Wet'suwet'en hereditary clan chiefs in B.C. who say it cannot proceed without their consent.

CALGARY — Jessica Matten, the star of the new APTN series "Tribal," has lived a life that's prepared her to play the controversial chief of police tasked with investigating allegations of corruption on a reserve.

In her tweet, the woman said she was assaulted by a man on a trail who told her to "go back to her country." 

As residents in the Banff-Airdrie riding ready for this fall's federal election, a new brand of conservatism will be vying for their votes – securing local representation with Cochranite Nadine Wellwood.

Airdronian Nick Flaumitsch is putting his name forward to run as an independent candidate in the anticipated fall 2019 federal election for the Banff-Airdrie riding.

The Airdrie-Cochrane NDP Constituency Association is on the brink of announcing its first candidate for the riding, hopeful to officially declare in the next couple of weeks.

Addressing long-term municipal funding concerns was top of mind at the Mid-Sized Cities Conference held in Edmonton last week.

It was a whirlwind of a year for Morgan Nagel – the two-term Cochrane town councillor who lost to businessman Peter Guthrie last Saturday in his vie to represent the UCP in the Airdrie-Cochrane riding.