Beyond Local

The Airdrie and District Hospice Society (ADHS) will be hosting its second annual virtual Hike for Hospice throughout the month of May to raise funds and awareness for palliative care patients and their families.

If you're in the market for a recreational vehicle, an Airdrie-based swim club is raffling off a brand new camper on May 15 to help raise funds to keep its athletes in the pool.

Peter Hoang give us a glimpse of what hard climbing is all about.

OTTAWA — Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says the 2021 federal budget marks a historic level of investment in Indigenous communities, but he acknowledges much of this spending addresses systemic funding gaps and that longer-term, sustained s

As it becomes increasingly clear that workplaces are a key transmission location in the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, some Canadian employers are offering paid sick leave to their employees in the absence of government action.

Unpaid oil and gas taxes and river hazard study support items of interest

EDMONTON — Alberta revoked a long-standing policy that protected its mountains and foothills from open-pit coal mines without considering how that might affect its most popular tourist attraction, a government official has acknowledged.

EDMONTON — The auditor general says Alberta’s MRIs and other diagnostic imaging tests are plagued by poor communication and weighed down by handwritten forms and fax machines.

CALGARY — New greenhouse gas emission cutting targets are being described as "extremely aggressive," "ambitious" and "illogical" by members of the Canadian oilpatch after they were rolled out at a virtual climate summit of world leaders on Thursday.

An Airdrie pharmacy that specializes in immunizations has voiced some concerns over the “inequity” of the Alberta government’s vaccine rollout plan, after being denied a greater role in immunizing Albertans.