Alberta News

EDMONTON — Alberta is expanding rapid testing for the novel coronavirus. Health Minister Tyler Shandro says the tests will screen asymptomatic staff at all long-term care and supportive living facilities.

EDMONTON — Doubts are surfacing over the Alberta government's decision to restore a policy that protects the Rocky Mountains from coal mining.

CANMORE, Alta. — A proposal for development in an important wildlife corridor in an Alberta mountain community has taken a step forward.

EDMONTON — The Alberta government says it has completed a plan to manage oilsands development in an area near the Fort McKay First Nation that supports traditional land uses and maintains its ecological integrity.

CALGARY — The cancellation of the Keystone XL oil export pipeline has resulted in a second oilsands company posting a multimillion-dollar impairment charge in its fourth quarter earnings report. Calgary-based Cenovus Energy Inc.

EDMONTON — The pastor of an Edmonton-area church that had been holding Sunday services with as many as 300 people has been charged with violating COVID-19 health rules.

EDMONTON — Public protest has persuaded the Alberta government to U-turn on a major section of its economic road map and reinstate a policy that has kept open-pit coal mines out of the Rocky Mountains for almost 45 years.

CALGARY — A snow penguin protest that generated buzz in Edmonton is now in Alberta's biggest city.

CALGARY — The Montreal Alouettes have signed Canadian offensive lineman David Foucault. The native of Lasalle, Que.

CALGARY — The Alberta Court of Appeal has ruled that a trial judge erred by not applying consecutive parole eligibilities for two men convicted in the slayings of three family members.