The 455-metre-long track in downtown Edmonton will be home to 64 fearless skaters this upcoming weekend. Featuring a 40-metre vertical drop from start to finish, competitors will reach speeds up to 80 kilometres per hour. “The course will be faster and a greater challenge than [Edmonton’s] 2015 [course],” reveals Patrice Drouin, event producer for Red Bull […]

Numbered are the days of fumbling around for bus fare or overpaying for a monthly bus pass that you don’t get the full value from. ETS officials announced that “Smart Fare” will be the new currency used to ride public transportation in Edmonton, St. Albert and Strathcona County, as early as 2020. The new technology […]

This week on NAIT NewsWatch: Bikeshare Alberta looks at the possibility of pedalling its program into Edmonton giving people who don’t own bikes, access to them. Also, NAIT tops the list of Alberta’s top 70 employers. We take a look at what makes the school standout. And our sports anchor, Tony Brar learns just how hard it is […]

Hundreds of people walked from MacEwan University to the University of Alberta on Valentine’s Day to remember and honour missing and murdered Indigenous women. The event started with an opening prayer and tribute. “We’re going to march carefully, but we are going to march strong because that’s who we are as a nation,” says Dr. […]

Imagine playing an entire NHL season worth of hockey in just one day. Seems like quite the feat but that’s exactly what 40 competitors started Friday morning in a charity hockey game.  The proceeds will go to PROFYLE, a new initiative started by the Terry Fox Foundation. The World’s Longest Hockey Game is hosted by […]