Category Archives: Local News
Alberta to create standards for releasing oilsands tailings into environment
The Alberta government is planning to create standards for releasing treated oilsands tailings into the environment. Creating those standards is one of four new policy recommendations pitched by a gov...
Sep 05, 2025 The Syncrude oil sands extraction facility is reflected in a tailings pond near Fort McMurray, Alta., on Sunday, June 1, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
At Assembly of First Nations AGM: First Nations demand federal government take action on drug dealers in their communities
Today, First Nations chiefs demanded the federal government to bring stiffer consequences to the people selling drugs that are taking lives in their communities. Chief Angela Levasseur of Nisichawayas...
Sep 05, 2025
Edmonton police officer charged with aggravated assault
Alberta's police watchdog has charged an Edmonton police officer with assault dating back to a shooting in 2024. On March 1, 2024, the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) was directed to in...
Sep 05, 2025
Mayerthorpe Mounties release numbers showing crime statistics for the area
Mayerthorpe town council accepted the regional policing report from the Mayerthorpe RCMP during the councilors' August 25 regular meeting. The report covers the quarter from April 1 to June 30 of this...
Sep 05, 2025
High Prairie to host Indian Relay Races
It's a weekend of competition and skill. The Sucker Creek Indian Relay Races are at the Post for this weekend at the High Prairie Rodeo Grounds. Dancers, drummers, and food vendors will be on site. Th...
Sep 05, 2025
Grande Prairie RCMP search for missing teen
Grande Prairie Mounties are asking for your help in finding a missing 15 year old. Police say Savanna Clement was last seen in Grande Prairie on September 2nd, and there is concern for her wellbeing. ...
Sep 05, 2025
Arson charges laid after 2 Fort Chipewyan fires
Mounties have laid arson charges for a 20 year old woman on the Chipewyan Prairie First Nation, about 275 kilometres north of Fort McMurray. Wood Buffalo RCMP say police and firefighters were called t...
Sep 05, 2025
Alberta ranks second highest numbers for joblessness in Canada
Our province's numbers ranking joblessness is now the second highest in Canada. Statistics Canada revealed its Labour Force Survey for August of this year on September 5th, which showed Alberta's unem...
Sep 05, 2025
Chiefs vote down major projects resolutions, say AFN shouldn't negotiate for them
First Nations chiefs voted down a resolution at their national assembly on Thursday that opponents said would have amounted to an endorsement of the federal government's major projects legislation. Th...
Sep 04, 2025 Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak, Chief Abram Benedict and Chief Francis Verreault-Paul listen as delegates speak about resolutions at the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) Annual General Assembly in Winnipeg on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods
Province calls on Albertan's on AISH to share opinion in town halls
Starting July 2025, citizens of Alberta on Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH) will fall under the Alberta Disability Assistance Program (ADAP). The provincial government says ADAP allo...
Sep 04, 2025
