RSS- Government of Alberta

Government of Alberta news - right to your desktop

Now you can receive Government of Alberta news releases, information bulletins and advisories right to your desktop using RSS. Choose your news by subject or Government of Alberta department, and receive information when it's released.

Select a Government of Alberta RSS news feed

Select a Government of Alberta RSS legislation feed

What is RSS?

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a way to distribute and receive headlines and other web content to your desktop. Instead of having to go back to a website to see what's new, you can have new information delivered to you. The RSS links on the Government of Alberta website allow you to receive up-to-the-minute announcements from the Alberta government to your desktop.

Why use RSS?

There are a number of benefits to using RSS, including:

You select what news you want. RSS allows you to select the type of news and information you receive from websites.
You determine when you get your news. Once you download your news reader, you can customize it to go and fetch the news every five minutes, or every hour - depending on how you want it.
Cut down on SPAM. Because RSS requires you to download a news reader, you aren't subscribing to e-mail lists, which can increase your risk of getting unwanted SPAM e-mail.

Getting Started

To use RSS, you need to download an RSS reader and install it on your computer. Then, select an RSS feed that you want to begin receiving, and setup a new newsfeed.

If you are interested in receiving all news from the Government of Alberta, your RSS reader may support something called OPML. This format allows you to easily set up all feeds from the Alberta Government. Or, if you only want news related to education or tourism or any other topic, you can select only to receive this information.

Once you have downloaded your reader and selected the news feeds you wish to receive, the RSS reader will go to the site you’ve selected and download news headlines and links to your RSS reader.