A Lethbridge-based musician is using his platform to raise money for masks to be sent down to the Navajo Nation, a U.S. First Nation that has been hit hard by COVID-19.

City council has moved away from generic names for the new ward boundaries, and will instead begin consulting with local leaders to pick Indigenous names.

"I have a voice. And I'm not scared to voice out what had happened to my wife and what had happened to me," said Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation.

A special place in Enoch Cree Nation, west of Edmonton, is being used an illegal dumpsite.

Almost all wildlife and bird monitoring, often done by remote cameras, is suspended, as is testing for leaks of methane.

There were 216 additional cases of COVID-19 reported in Alberta on Monday, bringing the total of cases in the province to 4,696.

Alberta's minister of Indigenous relations said Saturday that his ministry is working to communicate with First Nations communities to help guide them through the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a speech that heavily criticized "green left urban militants," Premier Jason Kenney insisted his government is the one that has the best interests of First Nations at heart because it supports building major energy projects.

A deal has been reached between the Alberta government and a First Nation that had raised environmental concerns around the Teck Resources Frontier project.

"It's just a check-box for Jason Kenney and his government to say, 'Look, I've talked to the First Nations and everything is good,'" Chief Allan Adam said after walking out of a meeting Wednesday.