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Province's decision sparks calls to keep clinics open

A section of Highway 93 North in Banff National Park has reopened after mudslide debris blocked the road for nearly 24 hours.

While the highway is open to all traffic as of Friday, Valemount business owners said the roughly three-week long closure drastically lowered their number of customers.

$1.3 million funding allocated to figuring out strategies to safely manage nuclear waste at the University of Regina along with Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) and SaskPower.

Police dog and helicopter find suspect after police say hundreds of pounds of copper wire and other items found at crash scene

Catherine Babault, a professional wildlife photographer based in Courtenay, captured video of a mother grizzly and two young cubs grazing in a meadow with a small herd of Roosevelt elk.

Last week, an Alberta judge agreed to reduce fine for Edmonton speeder who was driving home from Fort McMurray, but warned of the serious consequences of speeding past police on the side of the road.

London Miller, age 8, makes and sells her own ‘energy bites’ at a Northern Alberta farmers market.

Jonathan Large, incident commander with Parks Canada, said “being held” means the 33,000-hectare fire isn’t expected to spread in any priority areas.

It could take more than a century for the freshly burned forest in Jasper National Park to regenerate into its previous postcard-perfect form, a wildfire expert says.