Dr. Deena Hinshaw will provide her latest update on COVID-19 in Alberta on Friday afternoon. The province’s Chief Medical Officer of Health will hold a news conference at 3:30 p.m. You can watch it here. It has been seven weeks since the first case was reported in Alberta. As of Thursday, 68 people had died and 3,720…

Road trip season is in limbo. Campgrounds and hotels are empty. Outsiders aren’t welcome at mountain parks. Roads normally crammed with Friday afternoon commuters keen to escape the city are quiet. The sun is shining and the snow has melted but weekend warriors have been told to stay put.  With lockdown orders keeping everyone close…

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…