Tag Archives: Fort McMurray News
Economists Predict Bump in Food Prices in Latest Inflation Report as MP Goodridge fights for affordability.
OTTAWA - A temporary federal tax break from early last year is expected to skew upcoming inflation figures, with analysts predicting a noticeable rise in food prices in January's data. Statistics Cana...
Feb 17, 2026 06photo / Depositphotos.com
CBSA Intercepts Over One Tonne of Narcotics Entering Canada From U.S.
CALGARY - Canada Border Services Agency officers have seized more than one tonne of narcotics at the Coutts border crossing in southern Alberta following three separate interceptions late last year. T...
Feb 17, 2026 Coutts Border Busts
Lunar New Year Begins as China Grants Visa Free Travel to Canadians
FORT McMURRAY - Chinese Spring Festival and Lunar New Year celebrations begin today, ushering in the Year of the Horse under the element of fire, a pairing traditionally associated with energy, determ...
Feb 17, 2026 Chinese Spring Festival, year of the Fire Horse. Government of Canada imageAdobeStock_880566861 (1) [Converted]
RMWB Activates Snow Plowing Zones 3 and 4
FORT McMURRAY - Winter maintenance crews in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo are set to activate additional snow plowing zones next week as snow clearing continues across the community. The m...
Feb 17, 2026
Snowfall Warning Issued for Fort McMurray as 20 cm or More Expected
Snow is returning to the Fort McMurray region, and forecasters warn the next round could once again snarl travel and daily routines across the north. Just as residents and municipal workers have dug o...
Feb 16, 2026 Irishka1 / Depositphotos.com
Wood Buffalo RCMP charge 18-year-old after firearm scare at Fort McMurray high school
FORT McMURRAY - An 18-year-old man has been charged after a firearm-related call at Frank Spragins High School prompted a police response and subsequent search warrant in the northern Alberta communit...
Feb 12, 2026 Frank Spragins High School, Facebook image
Police search for Ford SUV after downtown Fort McMurray hit-and-run
FORT McMURRAY - Wood Buffalo RCMP are asking for the public's help to identify a vehicle involved in a hit and run that damaged multiple parked cars in downtown Fort McMurray. Mounties say officers re...
Feb 11, 2026 Suspect vehicle in Hit and Run
Residents still have time to help shape Wood Buffalo RCMP priorities
FORT McMURRAY - There is still time for residents to weigh in on what they want police to focus on in the coming year, with public engagement now underway to help shape the Wood Buffalo RCMP prioritie...
Feb 03, 2026 RCMP Truck, image by Jon Tupper
Headline: Alberta New Democrats press Smith for update as ER pressures persist
EDMONTON - Alberta's New Democrats are calling on Premier Danielle Smith to address Albertans directly about pressures facing the province's health care system and have launched a petition urging the ...
Feb 03, 2026 Alberta NDP Web Logo
Alberta researchers target colorectal cancer with retooled malaria drug
EDMONTON - Researchers at the University of Alberta say an existing anti-malarial drug could help make colorectal cancer tumours more sensitive to chemotherapy, offering a potential path to more targe...
Feb 03, 2026 University of Alberta Web logo
