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  EDMONTON -- Alberta Environment and Parks has shut down a composting company’s registration after inspections of the west Edmonton facility found persistent odour and contaminant issues. Cleanit Greenit’s registration is cancelled effective June 30, 2022, said an Alberta Environment news release sent Thursday. The department said it is giving the composting facility more than a year for the cancellation to take effect in order to allow it time to “choose a path forward” for the facility. According to the province, Cleanit Greenit must operate in accordance with the Alberta Code...

  EDMONTON -- A worker at Finning Canada's west Edmonton location has died in what officials will only say was an "incident." Emergency crews were called to the Finning yard, on 104 Avenue and 180 Street, to help two injured workers on Wednesday afternoon.  In a written statement to CTV News Edmonton, Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) confirmed the death of one of the workers Thursday afternoon.  “Occupational Health and Safety has been notified of an incident that occurred in North west Edmonton in the afternoon on March 31," OHS spokesperson Natasha McKenzie wrote.  "Two work...

  EDMONTON -- A new provincial government initiative launched Thursday that they say will help reduce rural crime and decrease law enforcement response time to emergencies. Under the Rural Alberta Provincial Integrated Defence (RAPID) Response initiative, Alberta fish and wildlife officers and Alberta Sheriffs will be able to help RCMP answer emergency and high-priority calls when requested. Effective Thursday, the government says the RAPID program will help authorities arrive at emergencies more promptly because fish and wildlife officers will be able to respond to requests from the RCM...

  EDMONTON -- Residents in a north Edmonton neighbourhood are frustrated after surveillance footage shows the excessive speeding leading up to a driver crashing through a homeowner’s fence. It was Monday morning… 10:44 a.m. according to the information north end resident Derrick McInnes received from his neighbour. “Someone had gone around the bend a little too fast, well quite a bit too fast,” McInnes explained to CTV News. “He went over not one but two speed bumps, skidded around the corner, hopped the curb and went over the sidewalk and ran into my fence.” “I heard this...

  EDMONTON -- Edmonton Public Schools is the latest Alberta school division to publicly state it will not pilot the draft kindergarten to Grade 6 curriculum during the 2021-22 school year. Superintendent Darrel Robertson said the decision was based on "the continued impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic." "Our Division is offering family choice for in-person and online learning in the first half of the 2021-22 school year," Robertson said in a written statement. "To ensure continuity of learning as we look towards a potential return to in-person instruction for the second half of the year, w...