Beyond Local

Free weekly Zoom cooking/baking classes for kids and teens hosted by cookbook author and food personality, Julie Van Rosendaal, are a big hit.

Politicians are denouncing what police have called a violent confrontation in separate attacks against officers and employees at a construction site for a natural gas pipeline being built across northern British Columbia.

Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd. is ordering spring and summer products early and chartering its own cargo ships to import goods as it doubles down on an inventory strategy that's buoyed the retailer through the pandemic.

The Law Society of Alberta says it will hold a hearing to determine whether former health minister Tyler Shandro breached its code of conduct. Shandro, a lawyer who's now labour and immigration minister, faces several complaints.

“The consequences of doubling the rail line may lead to increased wildlife mortality, changes in gene flow and ultimately impair the ability of wildlife populations to persist over the long term,” said Tony Clevenger, a board member with Bow Valley Naturalists and a well-known wildlife research scientist.

The country’s top doctor says Canada is past the peak of the COVID-19 wave caused by the Omicron variant and is ready to move out of a crisis response.

RCMP warning of 'poor' driving conditions on the QEII highway between Didsbury and Red Deer.

Ottawa police say officers have begun making more arrests of anti-vaccine mandate protesters who have occupied the city's downtown core for weeks.

“It is really important that the message be heard by Albertans that it’s not over,” said Dr. Michelle Warren, Alberta Medical Association president.

Alberta NDP leader Rachel Notley responded to recent Coutts border blockade and protest, the elimination of the Restriction Exemption Program (REP), the lack of sufficient ambulance coverage in Alberta, and a proposed passenger rail project.