CALGARY (660 NEWS) – Several projects that caused headaches for Calgary drivers in 2019 have wrapped up before the new year.
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Monthly Archives: December 2019
The strongest major currency this year could stall out in 2020
The Canadian dollar may struggle in 2020 to top its stellar performance from this year.
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Okotoks looking forward to water solution, development in 2020
Movement on downtown development and affordable housing, and the launch of Okotoks Transit top the mayor’s list of accomplishments in 2019.
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New transit hub to open in 2020
Hopping on the bus to Edmonton from St. Albert for work or school will be that much easier in 2020, with imminent completion of a new park and ride facility that has been a decade in the works.
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Year in review: the stories that shaped Fort McMurray in 2019
After first proposing a moratorium on work camps 120 kilometers outside of Fort McMurray in late 2018, Mayor Don Scott spent the first month of the new year arguing in favour of the ban.
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Penhold maintains eye on growth for 2020
Despite the economic downturn in Alberta, 2019 is being described as an exciting year for the Town of Penhold.
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The Alberta town that’s at greatest risk of losing jobs to automation
A radio disc jockey interrupts the country music playing to an empty room at Ricky’s All Day Grill in Brooks, Alta. He wants to take a minute, he says, to recognize Gissela Ramirez, a recruiting supervisor who left her corporate law gig in Guadalajara, Mexico, to work at the slaughterhouse and beef-packing plant in Brooks. The facility, owned by the world’s largest beef-processing company, Brazil-based JBS, is the biggest employer in town.
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Lethbridge still affordable for renters
Lethbridge remains one of Canada’s most reasonably priced cities for renters.
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Par-3 owners face unwanted sale
Owners of the Paradise Valley Par 3 golf course are working to avoid a sale but without finding new local investment, the course and related restaurant may have to be sold.
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Nashville sees one of the decade’s biggest jumps in rent
Here’s how much Nashville renters are spending each year for housing (and how that compares to the nation’s largest metros)
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