The province is offering up to $17.8 million in grants to child care centres and approved family day homes as they prepare to open as part of Alberta's relaunch strategy.

More than 100 medical students are offering volunteer child care to physicians and other front-line health-care workers as a way to keep them on the job during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The child care accreditation funding program, which was initially launched in 2004, will end April 1, 2020.

The UCP will be cutting a pair of programs meant to support childcare centres and workers in Alberta.

Alberta Party leader Stephen Mandel says a government led by him would provide vouchers and tax credits to help families with kids in daycare or after-school care.

Around 400 delegates attended the fourth annual School Age Care Conference in Calgary this weekend.

The YMCA of Northern Alberta said financial pressures have forced the charity to cancel free memberships for kids in child care.

Alberta is adding 100 more Early Learn and Child Care (ELCC) Centres to the $25-a-day daycare program and on Wednesday, most of the locations were unveiled.

The federal and provincial governments announced on Thursday they're committing $136 million over the next three years towards early learning programs in Alberta. 

Thousands of additional Alberta parents will soon enjoy paying $25 a day for child care.