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RJ Sigurdson said he's heard the voices of constituents loud and clear and is taking concerns on the coal policy forward to the provincial government.

Canmore Councillor Esmé Comfort put forward a successful motion on Tuesday (Feb. 2) to direct the mayor to write a letter to Premier Jason Kenney urging him to reinstate the 1976 coal policy rescinded by the UCP government last year.

Parks Canada has staff at the site of last week's grain train derailment west of Field to make sure wildlife keeps away.

Black settlers came to Canada to escape racist Jim Crow laws in the American South.

As February marks Black History Month, an Alberta-based organization’s online storytelling experience will focus on telling the stories of the black experience in Canada.

A decades-old debate over development in an important wildlife corridor in an Alberta mountain community is to be back before council next week.

EDMONTON — A colony of 800 snow penguins was set up on the grounds of the Alberta legislature to send a strong message.

HIGH RIVER, Alta. — An Alberta town in the Rocky Mountain foothills wants the provincial government to order a stop to increasingly controversial coal exploration in the region.

Investigators also say they are looking for a second passenger believed to have been in the back seat of the SUV that hit and dragged Harnett while the officer was attempting to stop it for suspicious plates.