Alberta, Canada Travel News

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.

A group of English as a Second Language students in Edson have been discovering the community one landmark at a time, thanks to an innovative pilot project.

Server Haley Gardiner wipes down a table with a bleach solution at Col. Mustard's Canteen in 10802 124 St.

EDMONTON a ' A former Edmonton police constable who was once lauded for off-duty heroics has been criminally charged for an assault that allegedly happened while he was on-duty in 2006.

Photograph by: John Lucas, edmontonjournal.com Many hotels in Alberta suffered a summer tourism slump, a new report has revealed.

For me, the trip was all about tarts. Oh sure, there was a robust venison pate at Farm , and a duck breast marinated with apples and Riesling at Open Range .

Edmonton leads major Canadian cities in its residents' reliance on cars, says a new report from Statistics Canada.

People keep posing that question to Nancy Berkowitz, and no doubt to most other parents who send their children north of the border to college.

When Mark Kolke books flights from Calgary to Hawaii for his vacation, he keeps his mind on the Pacific paradise and blocks out memories of being trapped in the dreaded middle seat.

A pharmacist fills a prescription. Photograph by: William Thomas Cain, Getty Images Albertans will pay approximately 30 per cent less for their generic drugs under the province's new pharmaceutical plan, which is intended to bring costs down while compensating pharmacists for doing work beyond dispensing pills.

Animal-rights activist and former game-show host Bob Barker meets Lucy the elephant at Edmonton's Valley Zoo on Sept.