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The province is extending the application deadline for its small and medium business grant to the end of June.

  EDMONTON -- An American auction company says it has shattered its own record on the sale of a Wayne Gretzky rookie card. Heritage Auctions says it has sold a 1979 O-Pee-Chee Gretzky rookie card to an anonymous buyer for US$3.75 million. The previous record for a hockey card was set Dec. 11, 2020 when Heritage sold the only other one of two Gretzky rookie cards to receive a perfect “gem mint” score from Professional Sports Authenticator for $1.29 million. That marked the first hockey...

  EDMONTON -- Newly obtained Alberta Health Services inspection documents highlight the extent of the public health violations observed at GraceLife Church west of Edmonton. The documents cover 18 inspections performed between July 10, 2020, and April 7, 2021, and were obtained from AHS via freedom of information requests. The records show public health inspectors who found a consistent indifference to COVID-19 safety precautions. “The Pastor communicated to RCMP that he believes the pa...

Stage 1 is slated to begin June 1 and is based on 50 per cent of Albertans aged 12 and older receiving a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine as well as there being fewer than 800 coronavirus patients in hospital.  Stage 2 is set for mid-June and is based on 60 per cent of Albertans aged 12 and older receiving a first dose of vaccine as well as there being fewer than 500 COVID-19 patients in hospital. As of the end of Tuesday, more than 2.2 million Albertans had received a first dose, representin...

A city council committee approved funding on Thursday to help build 124 affordable housing units at four locations across Edmonton.

  EDMONTON -- A day after a triple-overtime loss ended their season in an unexpected fashion, the Edmonton Oilers were trying to move on. A regular season of promising steps forward failed to translate into playoff success for the Oilers, who were swept in the first round of the playoffs by the Winnipeg Jets. As sweeps go, this was a hard-fought one. Three of the games went to overtime, while the Jets won the series opener 4-1 with a pair of empty-net goals inflating the scoreline. Still,...

  EDMONTON -- RCMP were called to a fatal all-terrain-vehicle (ATV) rollover in the Brule sand dune near Hinton on Friday at 5 p.m. A 21-year old woman from Devon, Alta., was taken to hospital where she later died as a result of her injuries, said Hinton RCMP. Her name will not be released. The cause of the crash was due to the driver operating the ATV down a large incline where she lost control, said RCMP. Share:

  EDMONTON -- A first-of-its kind enforcement operation by city peace officers saw more than a dozen tickets given out to people riding e-scooters illegally over the long weekend. Between May 21 and 24, officers handed out 17 tickets and 127 warnings to e-scooterers illegally riding on sidewalks in Old Strathcona and downtown. The fine for riding an e-scooter on a sidewalk is $100. A second round of escalated enforcement will take place in June. Users can ride on bike lanes, shared p...

  EDMONTON -- With more than 400,000 tax notices mailed out on Tuesday, Edmonton property owners will soon know exactly how much the municipal tax man will be collecting from them for 2021. This year, the city will collect over $2.2 billion from property taxes, with $482 million of that going to the province to fund education, according to the City of Edmontons branch manager for assessment and taxation Cate Watt. Property tax revenue funds city programs and services such as fire rescue, p...

Eurobio Scientific offers a new proprietary test for simultaneous detection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and characterization of its new mutations of interest Paris, May 26, 2021 – 7:30 am Eurobio Scientific (FR0013240934, ALERS, PEA-PME eligible), a leading French group in the field of specialty in vitro medical diagnostics, announces today the availability of its new proprietary EurobioPlex SARS-CoV-2 SNPs test (EBX-046), a real-time multiplex PCR* test for the detection of the SARS-CoV-2 co...