Category Archives: Local News

Avalanche Canada, in partnership with Alberta Parks, Parks Canada, and the Province of British Columbia, has issued a Special Public Avalanche Warning for the central Rockies. The avalanche warning is...

Following a unanimous vote at the Annual General Meeting on March 12, the popular August long weekend event will no longer be known as "Summer Days" as it will now be under the original name 'Lac La B...

Due to warmer weather, load restrictions will be reduced on the Fort Chipewyan winter road. Starting at 10 a.m. on Friday, March 21, the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo (RMWB) will reduce the da...

RCMP have provided an update following a shelter-in-place issued last week near Lac La Biche. On March 13, Lac La Biche RCMP responded to a report of a break-and-enter in progress at an Alberta Parks ...

The 2025 Spark Indigenous Youth Conference is officially underway at the Edmonton Expo Centre, bringing together 200 Indigenous youth from Alberta, Manitoba, B.C., and Saskatchewan. With 55 exhibitors...

I am Gitxsan follows the Gitxsan people in their battle to preserve and protect what is rightfully theirs through protests and legal actions. The film also follows a young high school graduate named P...

The province will be hosting a telephone town hall for those who live in northern Alberta Thursday night to talk about the new budget. Residents that take part will be hearing from three ministers, an...

Alberta's energy minister says the government will not draw on the public purse to clean up abandoned oil and gas wells. "We will not put public tax dollars into cleaning up wells," Brian Jean told re...

Red Deer Polytechnic and Sunchild First Nation are launching a program that will encourage more Indigenous students to enter the trades. The Elders Village Program will offer more opportunity for Indi...

A 35-year-old Red Deer man was arrested on March 14 after allegedly driving dangerously and colliding with a snow bank in Slave Lake. At around 9 A.M., RCMP responded to the incident on Main Street, w...