Nellie Carlson, a Cree woman who lost her Indigenous status when she married a Métis man, died Thursday at the age of 93.

If graphs and charts aren’t your thing, there’s a unique way to keep track of new COVID-19 cases.

The Royal Alberta Museum is opening Saturday at a smaller capacity to accommodate COVID-19 guidelines.

Julia Petrov, curator of daily life and leisure, said the Royal Alberta Museum wanted to capture the impact of the pandemic on people’s lives.

The Alberta government has released a list of 14 museums and heritage sites that will see operating hours change as a way to cut costs following the 2020 provincial budget.

"The museum will minimize spending on paid advertising and strategically reduce operating hours during underused times in an effort to maintain fiscal health."

Dinosaur fans are expected to descend on the Royal Alberta Museum's doors beginning Friday as the gallery opens a new display featuring "some of the nation's most impressive, famous and significant fossils or replicas."

Since the museum opened at its new downtown Edmonton location, more than 400,000 people have visited. 

The Vikings have travelled to where they've never been before -- landlocked Alberta -- as part of a touring exhibition at the new Royal Alberta Museum.

The sensory room, in the human history wing at the museum, opened at the beginning of summer.