Albertas

Parks Canada has begun opening up bookings for national parks in Alberta using its updated online reservation system. “The updated platform that we’re running with functioned very well and as expected,” said Pamela Clark, who runs…

Alberta hospitals and health-care centres have become increasingly dependent on contract nurses and other workers to stay functional — a trend that critics say must stop before it erodes an already beleaguered public workforce.Contract data…

Alberta bat researchers knew this day would come: a fungus responsible for the deaths of millions of bats in North America has arrived in the province.And nothing can be done to stop the spread, meaning it is likely to wipe out a large…

Alberta’s Kayla Skrlik and New Brunswick’s Andrea Kelly won their respective provincial women’s curling championship finals Sunday to gain entry into the Scotties Tournament of Hearts. They join Clancy Grandy (B.C.), Kerry Galusha…

Premier Danielle Smith has struck a committee to investigate how the Alberta government responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, and has appointed former Reform Party leader Preston Manning to chair it. Smith said Thursday that Manning and…

A shipment of children's pain medication destined for Alberta hospitals has arrived but the province is still awaiting the arrival of another order of kids' medications that will be distributed for sale at pharmacies.The Alberta government…

A scientific breakthrough that could one day lead to more discoveries that would revolutionize the energy sector has people around the world taking notice, including in Alberta. “By all accounts, the announcement of fusion ignition is…

Don’t like the weather? Wait five minutes. It’s a common enough phrase during Alberta’s summer storm season, but this winter people across the province are also living through near-daily temperature swings ranging from bitterly cold…

Doctors in Alberta are calling on the provincial government to take swift and transparent action to address the crisis facing pediatric hospitals.The Alberta Children's Hospital (ACH) in Calgary and the Stollery Children's Hospital in…

On the 15th floor of a downtown Calgary office tower on Wednesday, a new clean-tech fund was launched with an aim of decarbonizing the energy sector. But much of the talk at the event was about the Alberta government's controversial…