The year 2025 marks 150 years since the North West Mounted Police established Fort Calgary in 1875. And while Calgary wasn’t ...

The Sprawl connects Calgarians with their city through in-depth, curiosity-driven journalism. If you value independent local news, support our work so we can keep digging into municipal issues in the ...

The Sprawl straps on the ropes, helmets, headlamps and—most importantly—the walkie-talkies, and digs deep into the issues facing our city in ways that other media only scratches the surface of. In ...

I was upfront with my editor from the outset: “I'm no cowboy.” It was the end of 2009. I had just left my job as a news writer for Fast Forward Weekly, Calgary’s alternative weekly newspaper. I was ...

Experience the analog joy of letterpress and print a little piece of Calgary history by hand! The Sprawl’s pop-up press is a vintage printing press on wheels—a 1967 Kelsey Excelsior platen press ...

Sprawlcast is Calgary’s in-depth municipal podcast. Made in collaboration with CJSW 90.9 FM, it’s a show for curious Calgarians who want a deeper understanding of the city they call home. KEVIN LEE: ...

Sprawlcast is Calgary’s in-depth municipal podcast. Made in collaboration with CJSW 90.9 FM, it’s a show for curious Calgarians who want a deeper understanding of the city they call home. FRANCISCO ...

The Sprawl connects Calgarians with their city through in-depth, curiosity-driven journalism. If you value independent local news, support our work so we can keep digging into municipal issues in the ...

JEREMY KLASZUS (HOST): We're going to begin at city hall, but we're going back in time—to 2009. MAYOR NAHEED NENSHI: It's no joke to say this is the most important decision that city council has made ...

The Sprawl connects Calgarians with their city through in-depth, curiosity-driven journalism. If you value independent local news, support our work so we can keep digging into municipal issues in the ...

The Sprawl connects Calgarians with their city through in-depth, curiosity-driven journalism. If you value independent local news, support our work so we can keep digging into municipal issues in the ...

For this iteration of our ongoing journalistic experiment, we're collaborating with the Calgary Public Library on a temporary pop up newsroom in the new Central Library. The 2044 Edition of The Sprawl ...