Karen Bartko

2 weeks ago | globalnews.ca | Karen Bartko

Albertans who want to continue to protect themselves from the COVID-19 virus will have to pay out of pocket for it, the province announced late Friday afternoon. Since December 2020, the federal government had been looking after procuring and buying the vaccines, which the Public Health Agency of Canada said was unique to the COVID-19 pandemic compared to other routine immunization programs - which are paid for by provinces and territories.

2 weeks ago | globalnews.ca | Karen Bartko

A north Edmonton community is full of questions, after their natural water feature all of a sudden disappeared. The body of water Poplar Lake, also known as Klarvatten Wetland, has existed for decades along 82 Street - so much so, the road curves around the lake, which existed before the neighbourhood grew up around it. The city described it as a "stormwater-influenced wetland " buffered by additional park space.

2 weeks ago | globalnews.ca | Karen Bartko

The Edmonton Police Service (EPS) is investigating the death of a woman who was found stabbed at an apartment in central Edmonton. The homicide took place northeast of downtown, in the Parkdale neighbourhood, on Wednesday morning. Police were called around 7:20 a.m. to a residence near 81 Street and 114 Avenue. Upon arrival, officers found the victim, 27-year-old Morgan Cherish Taryn Giroux, suffering from a stab wound.

2 weeks ago | globalnews.ca | Karen Bartko

Measles has been spreading rampantly across parts of Alberta all spring and now, the province's health authority has issued a second standing measles exposure advisory. The idea is that people in certain communities should assume they are at risk of catching the most contagious disease in the world at any time.

2 weeks ago | globalnews.ca | Karen Bartko

A health advisory has been issued for a popular lake west of Edmonton because there's too much waste in the water. Due to elevated levels of fecal bacteria in the water at Allan Beach on Hubbles Lake, Alberta Health Services is advising the public not to swim or wade in the beach area, effective immediately. The lake is located a few kilometres west of Stony Plain in Parkland County, between the Yellowhead and Highway 16a, and has been issued fecal bacteria advisories in previous years.