Alberta Parks is wrapping up one of its busiest seasons on record, with millions of people visiting the province’s 305 parks ...

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 ...

Alberta Parks has closed Kent Ridge North and the James Walker Drainage after confirming “a grizzly bear denning in the area.

Alberta will shutter or partly close 20 provincial parks, and allow private businesses to operate others in an effort to save money. There are 473 sites in Alberta Parks’s network and the government ...

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 ...

Fire bans are in place for more than 280 provincial parks and recreation areas The Alberta government has closed 12 provincial parks and recreation areas ahead of the Victoria Day long weekend to ...

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 ...

Under a rock, in a fallen hollowed tree — hundreds of hidden treasures await discovery in Kananaskis Country. But just how many of these man-made caches can the region sustainably accommodate? For ...

Albertans trying to book a campsite online were frustrated by technical problems Thursday after the website was flooded with high traffic. In a morning Twitter post, Alberta Parks said the booking ...

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney chats with Minister of Environment and Parks Jason Nixon before the speech from the throne was delivered in May 2019. The United Conservative government announced this ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Albertans sought out safe and healthy outdoor activities in nearby provincial parks. As a result, last year, we saw park use soar. Despite the pandemic, and to the ...