Alberta Environment and Parks

During the provincial election, Albertans should demand candidates running for office promote policies to protect the environment.

The Alberta Energy Regulator says it is investigating after Suncor reported the discovery of dozens of dead birds at an oilsands tailings pond.

Alberta is preparing to change how it ensures oilsands companies are able to pay for the mammoth job of cleaning up their operations, but critics fear a year of consultations hasn't been enough to avoid repeating past mistakes.

Alberta doesn't have a good grasp of the overall environmental impacts of the oilsands a decade after implementing monitoring that was supposed to provide it, internal government documents suggest.

The Alberta government says it won't be closing any provincial parks, whether it can find someone to run them or not.

Alberta's United Conservative government plans to eliminate its stand-alone offices for climate change policy and environmental monitoring, a move some say will damage the province's standing and its ability to make science-based plans.

Residents of a southern Alberta hamlet are back in their homes after an evacuation that followed a train derailment and chemical spill.

A central Alberta zoo must pay $500 in fines after taking a bear for ice cream at a drive-thru.

The Alberta government is thinking about cleaning up a former wood-preserving site along one of the province's biggest lakes by capping it off and turning the adjacent land into a park.