The Edmonton Public School Board has formally asked the Alberta government to rewrite its controversial draft K-6 curriculum and halt a pilot program of it this fall.

By Tuesday morning, the mural of Vital Grandin, located inside the Grandin LRT Station, was hidden under orange panels. The colour is a nod to Orange Shirt Day, which is observed every Sept. 30 to educate people about residential schools in Canada.

A Grande Prairie surgeon's taping of a noose to the door of an operating room in 2016 was an inappropriate but not racist incident in a hospital plagued by a toxic work culture, a government-ordered external report has concluded.

The office of Alberta's information commissioner says it has not determined whether the province's controversial energy "war room" is subject to freedom of information legislation, despite the United Conservative government's insistence the war room's structure allows it to evade such scrutiny.

Edmonton city administration has walked back its findings from a recent report on shisha smoking in lounges, acknowledging the city would not need the province's cooperation to once again allow the practice.

The provincial government would have to exempt shisha from new rules if Edmonton wants to once again permit shisha smoking in lounges, a report prepared for the city has concluded.