Vaccinations for Albertans born in 1946 and earlier will be available at 102 pharmacies in Calgary, Edmonton and Red Deer starting the first week of March, Health Minister Tyler Shandro announced Wednesday.
The provincial government has announced some new funding for families who've struggled with childcare costs, adding to its list of available benefits aimed at helping Albertans impacted by COVID-19.
The pandemic forced Wendy Evans and Jennifer Wood to find a way to keep people living with dementia and their care givers connected in a time of isolation.
Registration opened Wednesday morning for Alberta seniors to book vaccination appointments, but the system crashed within minutes, leaving many frustrated.
Now that pharmacists have been given the ability to distribute COVID-19 vaccines to Albertans, another group of medical professionals say they are ready to help in the effort too.
Seven more confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been found at Calgary supermarkets and pharmacies in the past week, according to the latest data available.
A wind warning was issued by Environment Canada for southern Alberta late Wednesday morning.
Six plains bison were transferred to Waterton Lakes National Park on Feb. 19, with several Indigenous elders on hand to commemorate the occasion.
Homicide investigators are renewing calls for anyone who was at the Mazaj Lounge and Restaurant between 7 p.m. and closing time on Friday to contact them.
Premier Jason Kenney says a recent resurgence in energy prices is having an impact on Alberta’s bottom line but his government won’t be banking on high oil projections in Thursday’s provincial budget.
Some frontline workers deemed essential under previous public health restrictions say they’re frustrated to discover they do not qualify for the recently announced Critical Worker Benefit.
Ward 11 councillor and mayoral hopeful Jeromy Farkas say he will present an urgent notice of motion to council in an attempt to prevent the permanent shuttering of a federated charity-owned recreation facility.
A man who RCMP say pointed a rifle at a peace officer during a traffic stop in central Alberta has turned himself in, according to Mounties.
All Albertans age 75 and older — including those who turn 75 this year — can begin booking appointments Wednesday morning through Health Link and an online portal to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
Members of the Airdrie Rural RCMP are investigating an overnight shooting in Rocky View County that left a bullet lodged in a bedroom door.
A Calgary man has claimed his LOTTO 6/49 jackpot after the ticket he purchased in Lethbridge earlier this year proved a winner.
If you don't like the weather in Calgary, give it a day.
Alberta's chief medical officer of health says restrictions could be eased on March 1 if the province decides to move ahead with Step 2 of its reopening plan that day.
A trial date has been set for a jailed Alberta pastor who is accused of holding Sunday services that violated COVID-19 rules.
Badlands Motorsports wants to create a nearly $500 million motor sports racing park with multiple race tracks, a hotel, and condominiums in an undeveloped area about four kilometres east of the hamlet.
A Calgary high school was placed under lockdown for just over an hour Tuesday after a woman acting erratically entered the building.
The Calgary Public Library is sending free books to families in the community through a new fundraising campaign.
An overhead streak of light caught the attention of many Albertans Monday morning and surveillance camera footage confirmed their eyes weren't playing tricks on them.
Calgary Councillor Druh Farrell announced in a published blog post Monday that she won't be running for her council seat this coming October.
A Calgary man has claimed his LOTTO 6/49 jackpot after the ticket he purchased in Lethbridge earlier this year proved a winner.
A wind warning was issued by Environment Canada for southern Alberta late Wednesday morning.
On Canada’s Agriculture Day many southern Alberta farmers are calling on the Alberta government to put the brakes on coal mining, until public consultations are finished, and all issues have been examined.
For the national farmer-led coalition Farmers For Climate Solutions (FCS), Canada’s Agriculture Day was the perfect time to call on the feds for a $300M investment to cut agricultural emissions.
With Black History Month nearing an end, a group of photographers is putting together a collection of photos, poems and short stories that highlight the Black experience in Lethbridge and across Alberta.
Dashcam video captured the moment a dump truck collided with a barrier along the I-405 north of Renton, Wash.
A large gaggle of snow geese blotted out the sky over Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge in Garden City, Missouri.
A flippered forager was taken away in the back of a police cruiser after it was found wandering the streets of Charlottetown
A train carrying liquid petroleum exploded after a collision with an 18-wheeler in Cameron, Texas.
John Vennavally-Rao has the story of a brother and sister team who were inspired by the loss of a pet to help other animals.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says U.S. leadership has been 'sorely missed' over the past few years.
Moderna says it is working with U.S. government scientists to study an experimental booster shot that targets a concerning new variant of the coronavirus and has raised its global COVID-19 vaccine production goal for this year by 100 million doses.
The rollover car crash that seriously injured Tiger Woods outside Los Angeles on Tuesday was an accident, so investigators won't pursue any charges against the golf great, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said Wednesday.
Ontario’s online portal where people from the general population can book their COVID-19 vaccine appointment will be launched on March 15, and will start by allowing people 80 and over to register first.
The fight to win the leadership of his party could be nothing compared to what Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole has ahead: keeping his party together as he tries to win over voters who haven't voted for it recently.
A new study has found that the novel coronavirus can survive on some forms of fabric and transmit to other surfaces for up to 72 hours in a laboratory setting.
A quarantine screening officer who allegedly demanded cash from a woman before sexually assaulting her at her home faces related charges, police said on Wednesday.
Online outrage prompted an Anishinaabe and Mohawk fashion designer to apologize over a dress that used imagery of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people. The designer says she never intended the piece to be triggering but instead, give the issue a spotlight in a traditionally white-dominated world of fashion.
The interface of video conferencing technology like Zoom may have compounding physiological effects that can be exhausting, according to Stanford University researchers who have launched a new online study to measure 'Zoom fatigue.'
International Development Minister Karina Gould says the first injection of a COVID-19 vaccine in Ghana is a significant milestone for a new global vaccine-sharing program created to bring doses to low-income countries.
Huge fields of garbage': Teen diver warns of growing underwater trash in Humber Bay
Instead of one plan for the entire province, Ontario says vaccine rollout details will be determined by each local public health unit.
