CALGARY — Alberta's premier asked people to reconsider their New Year's plans as the province recorded more than 8,000 COVID-19 cases over a five-day period.  "Follow the restrictions that are in place and please don't look for loopholes," Jason Kenney...

WINNIPEG — Public health officials in Manitoba are urging residents to significantly scale back holiday celebrations as the province reported nearly 750 new COVID-19 cases Friday, making it the highest daily count of the pandemic.  The government didn'...

EDMONTON — New public health restrictions in Alberta announced earlier this week to help slow the spread of the COVID-19 Omicron variant take effect today.  Venues that seat more than 1,000 people will be limited to half capacity, a restriction that

EDMONTON — Alberta is adjusting its COVID-19 testing rules to cope with the ongoing rise in cases driven by the highly transmissible Omicron variant. Dr. Deena Hinshaw, the province's chief medical officer of health, is urging Albertans with COVID-19 s...

VICTORIA — British Columbia reported 2,046 new COVID-19 infections on Thursday, eclipsing the previous record set the day before as the Omicron variant spreads. The province says 975 cases of the highly transmissible variant have been confirmed so far,...

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government says COVID-19 testing is so backed up in the province that case counts have been under-reported. The province says in a COVID-19 bulletin Thursday that demand at test collection sites in Winnipeg and across the provin...

REGINA — Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says low COVID-19 hospitalizations and manageable case numbers mean the province doesn't need new public health measures. Moe defends the province's decision to forgo stronger restrictions in a short video posted...