Category Archives: Breaking News
Carney ends spring budgets, pledges clearer accounting of federal investments
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is ending the long-standing tradition of spring federal budgets, with the government announcing Monday that the country's annual spending plan will now be presented...
Oct 07, 2025 Mark Carney at a Policy Exchange summer party, August 2015
YMCA expands childcare and day camps as Alberta teachers strike begins
FORT McMURRAY - The YMCA of Northern Alberta is expanding its child care and day camp programs to support families affected by the provincewide teachers' strike. The charity, one of Alberta's largest ...
Oct 07, 2025 YMCA Wood Buffalo Web image
Premier Smith visits eastern Canada to strengthen national economic partnerships
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is in Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto this week to promote collaboration and advance projects aimed at strengthening industries across Canada. While in Montreal,...
Oct 07, 2025
Support Services Wood Buffalo to close Dec. 31 after more than two decades of service
FORT McMURRAY - Fort McMurray's Support Services Wood Buffalo will close Dec. 31, 2025, ending more than two decades of work with vulnerable residents across the region. Founded in 2002 as the Support...
Oct 07, 2025 Support Services Wood Buffalo
Canada Post strike delays municipal mail delivery in Wood Buffalo
FORT McMURRAY - The Canada Post strike is disrupting mail delivery across the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, delaying utility bills, property tax reminders, ambulance invoices and other munici...
Oct 07, 2025 ValeStock / Depositphotos.com
Nominations now open for Council's Excellence Awards in Wood Buffalo
FORT McMURRAY - Nominations are now open for the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo's Council's Excellence Awards, which celebrate residents and groups making a positive difference in the region. T...
Oct 07, 2025 Council excellence awards
Alberta government serves teachers with lockout notice amid historic provincewide strike
EDMONTON - Alberta's bargaining committee has issued a lockout notice to 51,000 striking teachers, marking the latest escalation in a historic labour dispute that has closed schools across the provinc...
Oct 06, 2025 jekershner7 / Depositphotos.com
RCMP search for missing Conklin man last seen hitchhiking on Highway 881
Update Oct 10th 2025 - Wood Buffalo RCMP would like to report that Randy Bennett has been located safe. FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Police are asking for the public's help to find a missing man from...
Oct 06, 2025 Missing Poster Randy Bennett
Fire Prevention Week focuses on lithium-ion battery safety as incidents rise across Canada
FORT McMURRAY - Fire Prevention Week is underway, and this year's campaign is shining a spotlight on the dangers of lithium-ion batteries, which power everything from phones and e-bikes to power tools...
Oct 06, 2025
Alberta teachers begin strike as parents brace for disruptions
Alberta parents brace for uncertainty as 51,000 teachers strike FORT McMURRAY - Fifty-one thousand public-education teachers across Alberta hit the picket lines today, closing schools in both the Fort...
Oct 06, 2025 Schools closed due to strike beginning October 6, 2025
