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  EDMONTON -- More than 1,400 Edmontonians signed a petition calling for a freeze on transit fares as the cost is expected to rise. The planned bump would see fares go from $3.50 to $3.75. On Monday, Free Transit Edmonton an organization that believes in a fare free transit system, presented their petition to city council before they met with Edmonton Transit Service to discuss the change. Paige Gorsak an organizer with Free Transit Edmonton, said while the 25 cent increase doesn’t seem...

Albertas legislature speaker apologized on Monday after he and 16 MLAs denounced the provinces latest COVID-19 restrictions last week.

Edmonton’s fire chief is asking the province to allow firefighter’s access to the COVID-19 vaccine as a growing number of them contract COVID-19 and overtime costs soar to $1 million.

The O’Chiese First Nation is calling on the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) to investigate a police confrontation resulting in the death of a 24-year-old community member with “objectively” and “without favoritism.”

The provinces reproduction number, the average number of people someone with COVID-19 will infect, indicates daily case counts are unlikely to fall in the immediate future. The provinces R-value remained above one across all four regions its measured for a fourth straight week, including a 1.12 provincewide value. Hospitalizations due to COVID-19 grew to 390 on Monday, including 90 patients in intensive care units.  Alberta registered a 9.05 per cent test positivity based on just over 12,0...

Another dog was rescued from the North Saskatchewan River in Edmonton over the weekend.

  EDMONTON -- A local restaurant tried to keep its indoor dining open to the public despite current public health restrictions. Under current restrictions, only patio service and take-out are permitted because of rising COVID-19 cases. Indoor dining was to end Friday at noon. Terry and Theresa Shaw, owners of The Crown and Anchor Pub & Grill in Edmonton said in an interview with CTV News Edmonton on Saturday, that they will remain open for indoor dining. They say it’s a matter of keepin...

  EDMONTON -- Edmonton restaurants have started to set up patios earlier than usual, in an effort to stay in business after in-person dining was shut down again. “The tables were frozen, the chairs were (frozen) at 8 a.m. this morning,” said Vik Mahajan with the River Cree Resort and Casino This is the first year setting up a patio for the River Cree Resort and Casino, one of many doing so as the third wave of COVID-19 hits the province. “We decided, let’s do an outdoor patio, it ...

A footbridge that would connect Edmonton and Strathcona County is being proposed to improve access and connectivity towards a multi-use trail system.

COVID-19 pandemic stress cited as cause in rising dental issues.