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Wood Buffalo council examined different options including buyouts, land swaps, building berms and implementing development limitations in flood zones. 

In the two weeks since classes resumed across the province, at least 1,000 students and staff in schools across Edmonton have been ordered into isolation after potential exposure to COVID-19.

Alberta’s chief medical officer of health and other officials will provide an update on the COVID-19 pandemic at a news conference starting at 1 p.m.

Alberta has identified its first case of likely COVID-19 transmission within a school, Dr. Deena Hinshaw said Friday.

Take a listen to Episode 27 of CBC Edmonton’s weekly podcast, The Loop.

A Spruce Grove man will be sentenced today in the death of a Thorsby gas station owner who was run over and killed three years ago as he tried to halt a gas-and-dash in progress. 

“Nakota Isga” means “the people.” “Anirniq” is an Inuit word for breath, the life that is in all things. And “tastawiyiniwak” for the Cree is a term for “the In-between” people,  those who move freely between gender roles.

Canadian provinces have seen an increase in fishing permit sales over the summer while Alberta experienced one of the sharpest.

The City of Edmonton is cancelling a mask exemption card program introduced in early August, interim city manager Adam Laughlin told council’s emergency advisory committee Thursday. 

Police use-of-force incidents were up almost 12 per cent in the first six months of 2020 compared to the same time period last year, according to a report submitted Thursday to the Edmonton Police Commission.

With fall influenza season looming, Alberta will prepare for an expected surge in demand for laboratory tests by ending the practice of conducting COVID-19 tests on people without symptoms.

While you’re waiting for today’s COVID-19 update, here are three numbers to think about: 93,342 … 937 … one.

Alberta confirmed 146 new cases of COVID-19 in the latest update released on Thursday.

Alberta RCMP have charged a  20-year-old B.C. man for literally falling asleep at the wheel.

According to data released by the Edmonton Catholic Schools this week, 27 per cent—11,663  out of 43,036 students—are enrolled in online classes rather than in person. 

Premier Jason Kenney’s conservative ideology and long-term opposition to tax increases could work in his favour if he ever tried to introduce a provincial sales tax, political observers sugge

Edmonton city council is embracing a blueprint to help guide future housing, transit, employment and infrastructure as the city grows to an estimated population of two million people over the next 45 years.

No new deaths from the disease have been reported since the last provincial update. 

A 33-year-old man is facing criminal charges after what police describe as a “vicious, random assault” at the MacEwan LRT station on Tuesday morning. The attack left the victim, a 61-year old LRT station cleaner, with serious injuries.

The City of Edmonton is seeking public feedback on its plan to reduce crashes on city streets and get closer to its Vision Zero goal of zero traffic-related fatalities or serious injuries by 2032.

Alberta plans to spend $1.3 billion allocated by the federal government to increase COVID-19 testing, enhance health-care capacity, funnel money to municipal transit systems and buy more personal protective equipment.

A research team at the University of Alberta analyzed hundreds of thousands of Edmonton condo listings from the last decade to determine the features that were associated with some condos selling faster than others.

The Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation 50/50 raffle is returning for the Stanley Cup final series.

The Fort McMurray region, which has been under a COVID-19 watch since last week, will not be bringing in a mandatory mask bylaw this month, after regional council opted to delay a third reading of the bylaw.

A convicted killer chose his elderly victims long before he broke into their house “to sacrifice them,” Alberta’s highest court was told Tuesday.

Legal experts say Caitlin Bernier’s dismissal is a case study in the constrained, complex rights of probationary workers, Alberta human rights law and the ongoing discrimination women face in male-dominated industries.

Legal experts say Caitlin Bernier’s dismissal is a case study in the constrained, complex rights of probationary workers, Alberta human rights law and the ongoing discrimination women face in male-dominated industries.

Legal experts say Caitlin Bernier’s dismissal is a case study in the constrained, complex rights of probationary workers, Alberta human rights law and the ongoing discrimination women face in male-dominated industries.

The value of Alberta’s rainy day fund has begun to rebound after being hammered by COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns and risky investment decisions.

The Alberta Wilderness Association says that southern mountain woodland caribou populations in Jasper National Park are dangerously low, and are calling on Parks Canada to intervene.

There were 1,491 active cases across the province, according to the latest provincial update, down 44 from Monday.

A 55-year-old man from Regina, Sask., has been charged with second-degree murder and arson in the death of a 41-year-old woman last year in Boyle, Alta.

The long-awaited opening of Edmonton’s new downtown public library closes the book — in a manner of speaking — on the traditional notion of libraries as quiet repositories of published materials and spaces for study and research.