Alberta, Canada Travel News

With a growing culture change toward environmentalism and awareness of ones carbon footprint, an Alberta couple who chose to live as green as possible for a year brought its message of conservation to Wetaskiwin.

From the road, it looks like Mother Nature is sticking out her tongue at everyone who drives by.

A year ago at this time, retailers were bracing for a poor Christmas shopping season.

Although the second wave of H1N1 appears to be dropping off, provincial health officials are still urging Albertans to get vaccinated to help ward off a third wave of the new influenza on the horizon.

The County of Grande Prairie is happy its concerns were heard by Alberta Health Services and its board but it didn't get any firm commitment on any of them, said Reeve Everett McDonald.

A Red Deer couple say they have lost their independence after the condominium board where they live refused to allow them to add a ramp to the front of their home.

The local family doctor who raised alarm bells three years ago with concerns about higher than normal rare cancers in Fort Chipewyan learned Friday the final Health Canada complaint has been closed.

You'd better watch out, you'd better not cry, you'd better use hand sanitizer. As professional Santas prepare for hordes of eager children launching into their laps as Christmas nears, those donning the jolly apparel are taking extra precautions this year for H1N1, says the owner of an Alberta-based Santa school.

The Art Gallery of Alberta unveiled today the new look, and new experience, that will characterize the Gallery well past its opening in January 2010.

The fall session has begun and, not surprisingly, that means that I'm spending less time on the road and more time in Edmonton.

In his pursuit to find out Albertans' health-care needs, provincial NDP leader Brian Mason made a trip to Fort McMurray yesterday to find out what local community leaders have to say.

Alberta Health Services has chosen Stuart Olson Constructors to expand the Central Alberta Cancer Centre for $41 million.

Dr. John O'Connor being filmed for a documentary, Downstream, which deals with the Alberta oilsands and the unusual number of cancer cases in the native population in Fort Chipewyan.

Edmonton theatre, and by extension the theatre community across the country, has lost one of its most magnetic and inspirational artists, teachers, mentors, agents provocateur.

Scott Hennig of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation says the Alberta government should cut back on the use of charter planes in light of its $6.9-billion deficit.

A citizens group called Responsible Electricity Transmission for Albertans surveyed 900 residents of the Canadian province and found that 68 percent of those surveyed were willing to pay more on their monthly electric bills to have transmission lines buried.

EDMONTON a ' A $4-million gift to the University of Alberta's faculty of arts from local philanthropists Peter and Doris Kule will establish what will become one the world's leading interdisciplinary institutes, university officials say.

About 300 people, a three-eyed fish and at least one anti-nuclear canine came together on the grounds of the legislature in Edmonton last Tuesday to protest potential nuclear power developments in the province.

A long lineup of people waiting for H1N1 vaccinations at the Westmount Shopping Centre flu clinic in Edmonton, Alberta on Saturday, October 31 2009.

Overwhelmed flu clinics will all have their lineups shut down as of 12:30 p.m. and new arrivals will be turned away, according to an Alberta Health Services spokesman.