In a year-end interview with Global News, Amarjeet Sohi praised the new council for working together so well, emphasized the strength in their diversity and outlined his priorities for next year. Kim Smith has more.
Alberta’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw on Friday encouraged people to rely on rapid tests for confirmation of a positive COVID-19 diagnosis in order to relieve pressure on COVID-19 testing centres and help the province manage outbreaks in high-risk settings.
Alberta Health Minister Jason Copping announced on Friday that the province is shortening the isolation period for those who are vaccinated and test positive for COVID-19 to five days, in line with recent guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The new guidance will come into effect on Monday, Jan. 3...
Alberta is reducing the required isolation period for those who have COVID-19 but have received two doses of vaccine from 10 days to five days, if symptoms have resolved.
A winter storm that is moving across B.C. will begin to spread snow to the highways over southern B.C. beginning Saturday afternoon.
Here's a list of what's open and closed in London on Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022.
More than 2,400 flights were cancelled globally as of early Friday, including over 1,100 flights within the United States or entering or departing it.
The advisory impacts London, Parkhill, Eastern and Western Middlesex Country, Strathroy and Komoka.
The update is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. and will be livestreamed on this page.
One first responder and six others were injured in the Colorado wildfires that began Thursday morning, unusually late in the year and following an extremely dry fall and a winter.
Officers must take part in five days of field training conducted in Jacksonville, Fla., in order to be considered an expert in the field.
Still with the summer repeats but I can assure you that I'm already hard at work on the new season which starts after Labour Day. -AC
From crafting stained-glass guitars to recording a late-night television show, these hobbies go way beyond bread making.
Modellers say testing gaps and a lack of data about the COVID-19 Omicron variant has them "flying blind" trying to predict how health-care systems could be impacted.
Beginning with the finding of unmarked graves at the Kamloops Indian Residential School, over 1,000 such graves were found at residential school sites over spring and summer.
While politics and COVID-19 dominated headlines again in 2021, there were also some lighter topics that captures the eyes of readers in Alberta this year.
Park Geun-hye had served nearly five years of a 20-year prison sentence over a scandal that also led to the imprisonment of the chiefs of two conglomerates, Samsung and Lotte.
Reported deaths from Rai, the 15th and deadliest typhoon to hit the Southeast Asian nation this year, has hit 405 with most due to drowning, fallen trees and landslides.
Not every event was forced to cancel. Some places were able to modify.
Many Edmontonians were excited to ring in the new year with a bang, but as the number of COVID-19 cases involving the Omicron variant climbs, that excitement has turned into disappointment. Many events have been cancelled or modified. Sarah Komadina has the details.
With more than one-third of employees affected by COVID-19, WestJet has cancelled hundreds of flights and is calling on government to “revisit” isolation requirements. Dan Grummett reports.
Hotels, restaurants and retailers in both Red Deer and Edmonton are feeling the consequences of the cancellation of the world junior hockey championship. Sarah Ryan has the details.
Here’s Jesse Beyer’s Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021 evening weather forecast for Edmonton and the surrounding area.
A webcast of Global News Hour at 6 Edmonton with Carole Anne Devaney from Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021.
The expanded Canada Worker Lockdown Benefit allows any worker to apply if their workplace has been slapped with capacity-limiting restrictions of 50 per cent or more.
