The Alberta government wants to hand off management of 164 provincially run parks to outside groups. “Modernizing Alberta’s parks system is long overdue,” Jess Sinclair, spokeswoman for Environment ...

The Alberta government has delayed information on its plan to hand off dozens of parks and recreation sites to third-party managers. Guidelines on how the partnerships are to work were supposed to ...

If Alberta Parks’ former booking system was a flip phone, the provincial parks agency believes it’s now entering the smartphone era. The agency on Monday rolled out its new campsite booking platform, ...

Parks Canada and Alberta Parks have issued a special avalanche warning for the mountain areas in the west of the province and in eastern British Columbia. There is also an avalanche warning in place ...

Trapper Neil Godlonton turns a small jar of dark paste in his hand as he contemplates the future of a contentious slice of wilderness on the edge of Canada’s Rocky Mountains. It’s a Monday morning at ...

Alberta is adding more than 1,400 hectares to the province’s parks system with the addition of two new parks and three expansions, but the deregulation of 12 smaller spaces is causing concern among ...

The summer is upon us, and for many Albertans, including myself, that means we are maximizing our time outdoors in the endless daylight. Whether it be paddling, hiking, biking, camping or simply a ...

Conservation groups have expressed concerns about the Alberta government’s decision to reorganize Alberta Environment and Parks into two distinct entities: Environment and Protected Areas, and ...