Alberta News

SLAVE LAKE, Alta. — An explosion Saturday at an oil and gas site in northern Alberta claimed the lives of two workers. The RCMP and emergency crews were called to the Marten Hills site, northeast of Slave Lake, about 250 kilometres north of Edmonton.

CALGARY — Alberta's education minister says she will take advice from the province's new chief medical health officer on whether to allow school boards to bring in mask mandates in schools with respiratory illness outbreaks.

CALGARY — Grey Cup week in Regina kicked into high gear with Tuesday's arrival of the CFL championship combatants.

EDMONTON — Alberta's second-largest school district is asking the provincial government for clarity on whether it can require masks when a school has a respiratory illness outbreak.

FOX LAKE, Alta. — RCMP have released more information about four people found dead Saturday after a house fire in northern Alberta. The dead have been identified as a 78-year-old man and woman, an eight-year-old boy, and a seven-year-old girl.

EDMONTON — The head of the new provincial ministry that oversees Alberta's parks says there will be a new emphasis on putting people in them.

EDMONTON — Alberta’s finance minister says there will be legislation next month to re-index both income tax brackets and benefit payments for seniors andthe severely handicapped.

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — A police chief in southern Alberta says the firing of a veteran officer for misconduct was necessary to provide a safe and respectful workplace.

CALGARY — Luge Canada has joined Abuse-Free Sport, the federal government's new independent program to prevent and address maltreatment in sport.

CALGARY — Canadian crypto trading platform Bitvo Inc. says its deal to be acquired by FTX, the crypto-exchange giant that collapsed last week and filed for bankruptcy, will not go ahead.