Local family pleads for province to support costly life-saving treatment for their son
A local family is looking to the provincial government to fund a pricey, but life changing treatment for a rare disease.

A local family is looking to the provincial government to fund a pricey, but life changing treatment for a rare disease.
Dr. Deena Hinshaw reported 1,857 COVID-19 cases on Thursday — Alberta's third highest one-day count since the pandemic began.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, are scheduled to receive their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine on Friday.
A Florida couple invited family and friends to their weekend wedding at their 'dream home and estate.' The only problem: Courtney Wilson and Shenita Jones didn't own the estate and didn't have the owner's permission.
Maj. Kellie Brennan says she was subject to unfair power imbalances throughout her years with the Canadian Armed Forces, including those in her relationship with former defence chief General Jonathan Vance, who she says fathered two children with her.
A 66-year-old man and the driving company he worked for are facing four charges after a runaway wheel unit from his transport struck another vehicle on October 28, 2020.
Edmonton Police have located the remains of a 30-year-old Edmonton woman reported missing on December 28, 2020.
A new bill could mean Albertans would have to prove gross negligence in order to sue a care home or hospital where their loved one contracted and died from COVID-19.
Firefighters recovered a body from the North Saskatchewan River Thursday night and now police are trying to determine who it is and how it got there.
Variants of concern make up more than half of recently reported new COVID-19 infections, and ongoing strict public health measures will be needed to get the third wave under control, new federal modelling shows.
Health officials in Ontario are reporting more than 4,500 new COVID-19 cases Friday and another 34 deaths linked to the disease.
Maj. Kellie Brennan says she was subject to unfair power imbalances throughout her years with the Canadian Armed Forces, including those in her relationship with former defence chief General Jonathan Vance, who she says fathered two children with her.
Canada could be administering 3.1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses a week, but well into what the federal government has coined the 'ramp-up' phase of Canada's vaccine rollout, the number of shots coming into Canada most weeks is still below what provinces and territories are capable of putting into arms, according to the head of the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, are scheduled to receive their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine on Friday.
A B.C. man's life took an unexpected turn after the discovery of a birth certificate from Scotland.