A Calgary doctor’s plea on social media to solicit medical equipment has highlighted the state of Alberta’s health-care system amid the most severe wave of COVID-19 to date.

In January, an Airdrie man with terminal cancer received the first federally approved magic mushroom treatment in Alberta. This week, the first clinic in the province to use psychedelic therapy has opened in Calgary. The ATMA Urban Journey Clinic is in northwest Calgary and will be a training centre for mental health professionals from across Canada.

Lithium — a component of electric vehicle batteries — is a growing market, expected to near $100 billion by some estimates in the next decade. Mining the metal can come at a high environmental cost, so some Alberta companies are developing greener extraction methods by partnering with an unlikely ally — the oil and gas industry.

A Calgary jury who heard details surrounding the death of a malnourished 14-month-old child have convicted the parents of criminal negligence and failure to provide the necessaries of life. The child, named John, died in 2013 one day after his parents Jennifer and Jeromie Clark brought him to the hospital where he suffered a seizure and went into cardiac arrest.

Decades in the making, Calgary’s long-awaited $245-million downtown library opened its doors to the public Thursday, boasting 240,000 square feet of spectacular architecture.

A police officer has been shot in the northeast Calgary community of Abbeydale. He was rushed to the Foothills Medical Centre where he is in stable condition, surrounded by his family. The head of the Calgary Police Association identified the injured officer as Jordan Forget – a five-year member of the force.

Government funding to hire summer staff at religious summer camps in Alberta may not come through after changes to the application process require organizations to express respect for "reproductive rights." Religious groups such as the Southern Alberta Bible Camp say they can't agree to that. "We don't believe that abortion is right and we're being told that in order to be able to access these grants we need to affirm that," said Jon Gartly, executive director of the SABC.

Taliyah Leigh Marsman, 5, is described as a mixed-race female with a slim build, brown curly hair and brown eyes.

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The man police have called a ‘person of interest’ in the mysterious disappearance of a Calgary boy and his grandparents now faces murder charges. Douglas Garland was arrested around 1:30 a.m. on Monday near Airdrie, as the search for five-year-old Nathan O’Brien and his grandparents, Alvin and Kathryn Liknes turned into a homicide investigation.