There won’t be an Edmonton Marathon this summer. Like so many other major events in Alberta this summer, the 2020 edition of the marathon has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The event was scheduled for Aug. 15 and 16. “As runners ourselves, we held out hope that the event could go ahead, because we…

Alberta’s ethics commissioner has rejected Opposition accusations that Premier Jason Kenney and his United Conservative caucus broke the rules when they fired the election official investigating their party. Marguerite Trussler, in a new report, says there is no evidence the United Conservatives directly benefited under the terms of provincial ethics rules when the UCP caucus…

The City of Edmonton is temporarily laying off another 900 employees in response to reduced transit service and lower demand for administrative services, interim city manager Adam Laughlin announced Monday.  Nearly half of the laid-off staff are transit operators, Laughlin told a news conference at city hall.    Others being laid off include staff whose jobs…

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…