TransEd crews doing testing on the Valley Line Southeast LRT found that oxidation had caused damage on signalling cables. The company says the cables need to be replaced before the line opens. After years of delay, the rail link between Mill Woods and downtown still doesn't have an opening date.

A surgeon in Edmonton is operating on patients from the city in rural hospitals. Alberta is investing in similar initiatives to reduce ballooning wait times for surgeries.

A decade after Alberta's Mtis settlements formed a health board to address inequities in their communities, settlement leaders are hopeful that the province is committing more funding. But shortages of doctors, nurses and other health-care staff are creating roadblocks to providing care closer to home.

Lac La Biche has five doctors. All are from South Africa. Across Alberta, six out of every 100 physicians graduated from medical school in the African country.

Alberta is using firefighters as a stopgap for inefficiencies in the emergency medical system, says the president of Rural Municipalities of Alberta.