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Four students with disabilities are suing the Government of Alberta and Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides for what they allege is 鈥渋ntentional and flagrant discrimination鈥� and denial of their right to education.

Municipalities say the province has been shorting them on grant payments made in place of property taxes, and it has fallen to ratepayers to shoulder the extra costs.

Half of the families surveyed said delays and barriers within FSCD led to missed developmental opportunities, and ten per cent said it interfered with their child鈥檚 school attendance.

Alberta鈥檚 new continuing care agency will officially be established on April 1 and is expected to be up and running by fall 2025.

The coal industry hired at least 14 government insiders to lobby for favourable policy changes, records show.

Although data exists to forecast future risk to a home from wildfire, flood, and other increasingly common extreme weather, it is not readily available in Canadian real estate.

Extreme weather events caused a record breaking $8 billion in insured losses in 2024, with the Jasper wildfires and Calgary hailstorm contributing nearly half of all insured damage in Canada.

In 2023-24, The Protection for Persons in Care (PPC) program investigated hundreds of reports of abuse. According to its annual report, investigators determined 157 of these allegations were founded 鈥� three times more than the previous year.

Alberta鈥檚 modernized coal rules will permit strip mining and other surface mining techniques in the Rockies and foothills.

Researcher says Alberta's energy regulator is failing gather environmental data, conduct on-site inspections, and protect ecosystems from harm.