Alberta Education is moving ahead with implementing its new kindergarten to Grade 6 curriculum in three subjects next September, but is rewriting its contentious social studies program and won’t send several subjects into classrooms until a later date.

Freezing rain in Edmonton has wreaked havoc on the city’s roadways, sidewalks and pathways, leading to hundreds of calls for slips and falls this past week to Alberta Health Services.

Mounties say they have made an arrest in the fatal shooting of a store employee in rural Alberta.

Canada’s top doctor says there is now community transmission of the Omicron COVID-19 variant in the country and it has the potential to ‘rapidly escalate’ in the days to come.

A man faces eight charges after a drug trafficking investigation in the Gregoire area of Fort McMurray concluded last week, the RCMP says.