Alberta reported 463 new cases of COVID-19 over the weekend. That brought the total number of cases in the province to 4,480. There have been 73 deaths. Dr. Deena Hinshaw, the province’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, will update the numbers on Monday at a news conference from Edmonton. You can watch it here. As…

When it comes to the map, Lloydminster is a city divided. But when it comes to relaxing public health restrictions, it’s Saskatchewan all the way. Beginning Monday, the border city 250 kilometres east of Edmonton will join Saskatchewan in its phased reopening of health services, businesses and recreational facilities that have had operations curtailed to…

Federal Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault says he expects money from an emergency COVID-19 general business wage subsidy program to start flowing within weeks to Canada’s beleaguered newspaper industry. Critics say this financial lifeline may come too late, however, to save the pandemic crisis-accelerated loss of newspapers and media jobs — specifically, because a stalled $595-million…

Rhett Melnyk can’t remember the last time he was off the ice this long.   The 15-year-old Vimy Ridge Academy hockey player is used to spending at least half of his day on skates playing the game he loves.  “I’ve definitely been missing the ice for sure,” said Melnyk who has replaced ice time with a…

Flooding in Fort McMurray caused by ice jams in the rapidly thawing Athabasca River worsened overnight Sunday, prompting a new round of mandatory evacuation orders. By Monday morning, access to the lower townsite had been closed by the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo.  “Access to the Lower Townsite, including MacDonald Island, downtown and Waterways, is…