When Andre Mercier turned up at work Monday, he found his RV park in central Alberta covered with what looked like icebergs. After a long, cold winter, last weekend’s warm weather caused the Red Deer River to melt.  The sure sign of spring wrecked havoc on River Creek RV Park, which is west of Stettler along Highway…

Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro will announce changes Friday designed “to enhance rural health care and strengthen rural physician recruitment and retention,” the province says in a media advisory. You can watch the news conference here, starting at 1:30 p.m. Shandro and Alberta’s physicians have been battling over compensation and other issues. In February, after…

Gerald Aalbers lives and works in Alberta, but he can see Saskatchewan from his office window. As the mayor of Lloydminster, which straddles the Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary, he’s dealt with some unique situations. Now, he says, the city is in the middle of one of it biggest challenges yet as it navigates the COVID-19 pandemic. “It’s…

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is scheduled to unveil Friday new help for the struggling oil and gas industry in the province. Watch the Alberta premier speak LIVE here at 11:10 a.m. MT.  Energy Minister Sonya Savage and Environment Minister Jason Nixon will also be at the event, billed in a release as “an announcement about actions…

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has granted bail to an Alberta man awaiting trial on a string of weapons charges related to a wild police chase in Kelowna which happened after the accused skipped out on a previous release agreement. Justice Gary Weatherill acknowledged the serious nature of the allegations facing Cody Janvier-Charland, along with the troubling…

One of numerous doctors giving up hospital work due to funding changes says even if Alberta delivers extra support for rural physicians, it doesn’t solve the underlying problem. Dr. Samantha Myhr, who works in Pincher Creek, says the fundamental issue is that the government cancelled a master agreement with doctors earlier this year and imposed…