Category Archives: Breaking News
Weekly Kid Create sessions return as library readies busy month
FORT McMURRAY - The Wood Buffalo Regional Library has a busy month lined up for kids and creators as it expands its weekly craft programs through December. The Kid Create series, aimed at children age...
Nov 27, 2025 Wood Buffalo Regional Library, WBRL.ca web image
Ottawa Alberta deal expected to scrap emissions cap and open door to BC pipeline
CALGARY - Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to announce a new energy agreement with Alberta today that would clear a path for a possible pipeline to British Columbia's coast while confirming the ...
Nov 27, 2025 Premier Smith with PM Mark Carney, Oct 2025
Alberta moves to let AI data centres generate their own power under Bill 8
EDMONTON - Alberta is proposing changes to Bill 8 that would open new pathways for powering artificial intelligence data centres by allowing developers to bring their own electricity generation. The g...
Nov 27, 2025 By JPxG - DALL-E 3, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=144161107
Fort McMurray agencies share in $6 million for violence prevention
FORT McMURRAY - The Hub Family Resource Centre and Waypoints Community Services Association are receiving new provincial support as Alberta rolls out nearly $6 million for programs that aim to prevent...
Nov 27, 2025 https://www.waypointswb.ca/
Poor conditions blamed in fatal Highway 63 semi crash
BOYLE - RCMP say one person is dead and another is in hospital after three semi trucks crashed on Highway 63 near Range Road 173. Police responded around 7:24 p.m. on Nov. 25 and arrived to find one o...
Nov 26, 2025
Parkland RCMP release photos of suspect vehicles in stolen wheelchair trailer case
PARKLAND COUNTY, AB. - Parkland RCMP have released images of two suspect vehicles as they search for a stolen trailer carrying 15 youth sport wheelchairs belonging to the Northern Lights Wheelchair Ba...
Nov 26, 2025 Suspect vehicle two in wheelchair athletics heist. Supplied image
Pot of gold: provinces rake in most of Canada's cannabis taxes
OTTAWA - A newly tabled report shows the federal and provincial governments have collected more than $5.4 billion in cannabis tax revenue since legalization in October 2018. Figures submitted to the H...
Nov 26, 2025 By United States Fish and Wildlife Service - [1], specifically CASA1_LF.jpg. (If the links expire, the photo can be found by searching for "cannabis" at the GIMP photo archive.)The original file with a watermark is at http://www.fws.gov/midwest/sherburne/CASA1.htm, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21916
Alberta faces surge of recall bids as 14 UCP MLAs targeted in growing backlash over teachers strike and government actions
EDMONTON - The number of Alberta MLAs facing recall petitions has risen to 14 after Elections Alberta approved five more applications this week, adding to a growing wave of voter-led challenges to Pre...
Nov 26, 2025 Alberta Legislature in session, image via https://www.assembly.ab.ca
Fraser Institute reports government jobs making up 30 per cent of Canada's employment growth
VANCOUVER - Canada added 950,000 government sector jobs between 2015 and 2024, accounting for about 30 per cent of the country's total employment growth over that period, according to a new study from...
Nov 26, 2025 benkrut / Depositphotos.com
RCMP hunt for stolen trailer carrying youth sport wheelchairs
PARKLAND COUNTY, Alta. - Parkland RCMP are asking for the public's help after a trailer loaded with sport wheelchairs was stolen from a high school in the Stony Plain area. Police say the theft was re...
Nov 26, 2025 By Pierre-Selim - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18644744
