Environment

Recent rain helpful, more moisture needed

Although Prince Albert and area received some healthy doses of rain in recent days, there is still much more needed to catch up to the average for this time of the year.Following several days of rain,...

Jun 11, 2019 (File photo/paNOW Staff)

Provincial green purveyors pleased with plastic ban, urge domino effect

Globally, one garbage truckload of plastic waste enters the ocean every minute.That comes from the federal government, which points to this, alongside plastic overflowing in landfills, as reaching a b...

Jun 10, 2019 Cutlery, straws and Styrofoam plates and cups could be banned in Canada by 2021. (Tyler Marr/battlefordsNOW Staff)

Liberals to announce plan to ban single-use plastics as early as 2021

OTTAWA - The federal government will announce a plan Monday to ban harmful single-use plastics such as drinking straws as early as 2021. A government official with knowledge of the plan says no l...

Jun 09, 2019 Plastic straws are among the key items set to be banned.

Emergency firefighting training underway in La Loche

Residents of La Loche are busy this week participating in emergency firefighting training."There's usually pretty good interest in the firefighting training because it helps to provide some part-time ...

Jun 05, 2019 Firefighting training ends Friday in La Loche. (file photo/larongeNOW Staff)

Senate committee says oil tanker ban off B.C. targets Alberta, divides country

OTTAWA - A Senate committee says the Trudeau government's bill to ban oil tanker traffic off British Columbia's northern coast will divide the country, inflame separatist sentiment...

Jun 05, 2019

Alberta makes it official: Bill passed and proclaimed to kill carbon tax

EDMONTON - Alberta's consumer carbon tax is now officially gone. Members of the legislature voted last night to pass the bill that repeals the tax, and it was signed into law by Lt.-Gov. Lois Mit...

Jun 04, 2019

Northern Alberta residents start returning home after two-week evacuation due to fire

Some residents in northern Alberta have started to return home after being forced by wildfires to leave their communities two weeks ago. An evacuation order was lifted this morning for resid...

Jun 03, 2019

Kenney says carbon taxes won't help stop forest fire threat

CALGARY - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says forest fires have always been around and carbon taxes won't do anything to change that. Kenney says a number of factors, including climate change,...

May 31, 2019

Alberta passes law to kill provincial carbon tax, federal tax looms

EDMONTON - Alberta's consumer carbon tax is dead, setting the stage for a showdown with Ottawa over the imposition of a new one.The province cancelled its tax on gasoline at the pumps and on home heat...

May 30, 2019

Mayor says northern Alberta town still under threat from nearby wildfire

HIGH LEVEL, Alta. - The mayor of a northwestern Alberta town says the threat from a powerful wildfire burning three kilometres away has not passed and warns evacuees they could be out longer...

May 24, 2019