Beyond Local

Cowessess First Nation said the number is the highest, to date, found in Canada. 

Applications for grants at a maximum $150,000 per group will be taken until the middle of January. 

The Cowessess First Nation says the number of unmarked graves at the former Marieval Indian Residential School will be the most substantial to date found in Canada.

Canada's largest national park is now so threatened by upstream development and divided governance that it likely meets the criteria to be placed on the list of World Heritage sites in danger.

LETHBRIDGE - Crown prosecutors have stayed charges against parents who were facing a third trial in the death of their toddler in southern Alberta.

Two coal companies planning to develop mines in Alberta's Rocky Mountains say they hope to move forward despite new regulatory and political roadblocks.

The Province of Alberta is proposing two new plans to monitor water quality on the North Saskatchewan, Battle, and Upper Athabasca rivers.

The federal Conservatives are asking that the Public Health Agency of Canada's offices be searched after a public shaming of the agency's president failed to persuade him to turn over unredacted documents related to the firing of two of the country's highest-security laboratory scientists.

Data from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) shows its recent efforts to combat tax evasion by the super-rich have resulted in zero prosecutions or convictions.

A new report grades Canadian governments in how they responded to the country's international promise to conserve at least 17 per cent of its land mass and 10 per cent of its oceans by 2020.