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Premier Danielle Smith announced $8.6 billion in government spending on building up to 30 schools and creating 200,000 new student spaces in a televised address on Tuesday evening. Read More

In a haunting message from beyond the grave, Métis Elder Sonny James MacDonald recounted being incarcerated for more than two years at an Indian Hospital in Edmonton in the 1940s for tuberculosis treatment, suffering abuse and isolation as a child. Read More

With the city's new "quantity-only" model for collecting local access fees (LAFs) that are tacked onto monthly power bills set to be implemented in January, city council voted this week to move forward on the plan. Read More

Smaller than a bicyle and powered by what appear to be four small fans, the teardrop-shaped Canary drone was the star of a futuristic show in Leduc Tuesday with the announcement of the next phase of a ground-breaking project. Read More

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B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix says minimum nurse-to-patient ratios meant to improve care and strengthen the health-care system have now been established for most hospital settings. Read More

Alex Edler never had to look far for inspiration to ensure proper preparation. Read More

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When the Edmonton Oilers surprisingly got Vancouver Canucks’ winger Vasily Podkolzin for a song (fourth-round draft pick in 2025) in mid August, the first two things that likely went through peoples’ minds were Klim Kostin. Read More

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Spencer Wilson grew up in Calgary. Read More

Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is preparing to implement an emergency order under Section 80 of the Species at Risk Act in an attempt to protect struggling caribou populations in Quebec. Read More

The Saskatchewan Roughriders responded just the way head coach Corey Mace wanted them to on Wednesday. Read More

When it comes to life experiences, Stuart Skinner is aging in dog years, having already crammed more into two seasons than a lot of goalies do in a lifetime. Read More

Supervised injection sites are saving the lives of drug users every day, but the same support isn't being offered to people who inhale illicit drugs, the head of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS says. Read More

Edmonton Oilers winger Evander Kane will have surgery in a few days to repair two sports hernias and four muscle tears which eventually took him out of the playoff lineup for the last five games of the Stanley Cup Final. Read More

Propelled by HBO’s “White Lotus,” Sicily has become an increasingly popular international destination. But while the tourism focus has remained on the northeast part of the island, in the coastal hill town of Taormina, the island has so much more to see, especially in the south: the moody beaches of the southernmost points of the island, the charming inland towns like Scili, its remains of ancient Greece. Read More

Edmonton police found human remains this past weekend in Parkland County that have been positively identified as 32-year-old Aylissa Rovere, who went missing earlier this month. Read More

Edmonton Oilers' main training camp finally got underway on Wednesday in the usual low-key manner: medicals and fitness training, with a smattering of media avails. Read More

The Saskatchewan Roughriders are running out of time, patience and players. Read More