Five new Alberta schools once destined to be built as public-private partnerships will now be publicly run construction projects, Alberta’s infrastructure minister said. Minister Prasad Panda said in a Tuesday interview the provincial government will borrow money to get construction going more quickly on two new K-9 schools in Edmonton, along with new schools in…

A University of Alberta researcher wants to hear from thousands of Alberta doctors, in hopes of learning what they’re going through during the COVID-19 pandemic and what kind of improvements are needed to deal with future epidemics. Led by Nicola Cherry, an occupational epidemiologist and professor of medicine, the study is modelled after a similar…

Three members of Edmonton Economic Development Corporation’s senior leadership team — including CEO Derek Hudson — have “departed” the organization amid an “unprecedented financial situation” caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Also leaving are Glen Vanstone, vice-president of research and strategy, and Cheryll Watson, vice-president of Innovate Edmonton, EEDC said in a statement posted to Twitter Tuesday.…

Canada’s oil and gas sector has slashed spending plans across the industry by $8.9 billion amid the economic fallout of the novel coronavirus, according to new estimates. IHS Markit says while the bulk of the cuts have been made by large oilsands producers, there have also been “sizeable” spending reductions to conventional, unconventional, midstream and petrochemical projects. It pegs the reductions in capital spending in oilsands alone…

Alberta plans to massively increase COVID-19 testing, with the goal of performing 20,000 tests each day by late May. More than 77,000 people have been tested so far, with labs in the province currently able to conduct about 7,400 tests daily. Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, will give her latest update on testing and case…

Edmonton Oilers chairman Bob Nicholson remembers Colby Cave as a tireless worker on the ice and in the community. Nicholson hopes to see the popular forward’s impact carried on through the Colby Cave Memorial Fund, announced Tuesday by the Oilers and the Cave family. Cave, a native of Battleford, Sask., died Saturday at a Toronto hospital.…