Beyond Local

On April 1, Clare's Law came into effect in Alberta. Areni Kelleppan, the executive director for SAIF in St. Albert, says it's a good step, but has limitations.

Landowners, Indigenous people and environmental groups have sent a letter to Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson asking for a joint federal-provincial review of Montem Resource's Tent Mountain project.

Airdrie-East MLA Angela Pitt has removed herself from a national coalition that opposes government-mandated lockdowns related to the COVID-19 pandemic, after another member compared Canada’s measures to Nazi Germany.

Sarah Elaine Eaton, a professor at the University of Calgary's Worklund School of Education, said her inbox was flooded after the curriculum was released last week from teachers who worried much of it was plagiarized.

Restaurants to close indoor dining Friday at noon as Alberta returns to first phase of reopening; vaccines open for all who qualify in Phase 2B.

There is general agreement that the social safety net program created eight decades ago needs to be adapted to cover gig workers when they fall on hard times.

In a statement Monday, PTW Energy Services confirmed three positive cases of the P. 1 variant first discovered in Brazil in its Alberta offices in Drayton Valley, Edson and Hinton.

GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. — County officials in northwest Alberta say a fire that followed a report of an early-morning explosion at an oilfield lease site is under control, and air-quality monitoring has determined there's no risk to the public.

OTTAWA — The number of active COVID-19 cases in First Nations communities has declined by 80 per cent since mid-January thanks to the high uptake of vaccines, says the top doctor at Indigenous Services Canada. Dr.