Police say a female teacher and five students were among the victims of a mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge, B.C. on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. RCMP Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald says the 18-year-old female suspect Jesse Van Rootselaar, who was found dead at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, had a history of contact with...

"It is with heavy hearts that we learned of the tragic events that unfolded in Tumbler Ridge, yesterday."We extend our sincerest condolences to the families, friends, and community members who are grieving such an unimaginable loss. The Alberta RCMP is committed to supporting our BC RCMP colleagues and the pe...

The Alberta Teachers' Association is expressing their sympathies and extending condolences following the mass shooting involving Tumbler Ridge Secondary School on Feb. 10, 2026. The statement is as follows:"The members of the Alberta Teachers' Association are deeply heartbroken by the horrific tragedy that occurre...

Alberta RCMP Traffic Services are reminding the public to slow down on highways throughout the province.This comes after Mounties stopped a vehicle on the QEII North of Airdrie on Sunday for travelling 178 km/h. During the traffic stop, officers observed two children in the back seats who were not wearing seatbelts.As ...

Country singer Corb Lund's petition effort to outlaw new coal mining on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains has been given the official go-ahead to gather signatures. The petition calls for the government to introduce legislation prohibiting any new coal mining activity in the area. Lund will have four months unt...

The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations says Alberta separatists will not be taking treaty land. Speaking at an AFN conference on Tuesday in Calgary, Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak again denounced the separatist movement in Alberta as ``illegitimate'' and ``unconstitutional.'' Some other Indigenous leaders at the ...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says ``significant'' deficits are in store for her province as it tries to grapple with low oil prices. The government's new budget is set to be unveiled later this month, and Smith says it's going to be a ``tough'' one. The premier told RED FM Calgary this week that she has ruled out tax...

Alberta Fish and Wildlife Enforcement is inviting Albertans to take part in Family Fishing Weekend (Feb. 14-16).All family day long weekend, residents can enjoy fishing on any body of water, excluding national parks, without a license.AB Fish and Wildlife says, "it's a great chance to get outside, make memories, a...

The Alberta government is hitting pause on a recent policy change that cut off health coverage for some temporary foreign workers, including youth coming to Canada on working vacations. The province quietly introduced the change in early January, but it did not receive widespread attention until a C-B-C News story last...

Alberta's sport minister says he hasn't signed his name to a petition that seeks to force a referendum on the province quitting Canada. Andrew Boitchenko says he and Premier Danielle Smith's United Conservative Party government are focused on strengthening Alberta's position within Canada. Boitchenko's comment comes af...

OTTAWA - A group of health care advocates is on Parliament Hill this week lobbying lawmakers and calling on the federal government to take a stand on Alberta's latest moves to expand private health care. Premier Danielle Smith's United Conservative Par...

CALGARY - The federal government has announced a $6 million grant aimed at improving Canada's economic productivity through a cross-country research partnership. The funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada is to be s...

The Alberta Mid-Sized Cities Mayor Caucus held its first meeting on Thursday, Feb 5, since October's municipal elections brought in new faces.As part of their meeting, eleven new mayors were welcomed to its 24-person caucus, and they "reaffirmed the group's commitment to collaboration and long-term planning to mee...

The Transportation Safety Board says it's sending a team of investigators to Alberta after 37 train cars went off the tracks west of Edmonton. The derailment happened Thursday near the hamlet of Wildwood, about 110 kilometres west of the Alberta capital. Canadian National Railway spokesperson Ashley Michnowski says ear...

January was a strong month on the jobs front in Alberta.Statistics Canada reports that we kicked off the new year by adding 41,800 full-time jobs across the province.Even with a reduction of 21,400 part-time positions, the unemployment rate was pushed down by 0.3 per cent to 6.4 per cent.Alberta is just now below the n...

A new Korean romantic comedy series travels around the globe and spends some time in Alberta."Can This Love Be Translated?" premiered on Netflix on Jan. 16, 2026.The character, Joo Ho-jin, is described as a "linguistic genius" who is fluent in several languages but is illiterate in the language of l...

The Canadian Bar Association is speaking out against Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's call for more input on the selection of federal judges. Smith says if Alberta doesn't get more say on future judicial appointments to the province's superior courts and the Supreme Court of Canada, her government would hold back money...

Alberta RCMP are offering tips to business owners to reduce the risk of theft and damages.In 2025, Mounties say 3,858 break and enters in businesses across Alberta RCMP jurisdiction were reported, down from the 4,574 break and enters in 2024.Mounties are making the following recommendations:Install an alarm system and ...

Two Alberta-based francophone groups say they don't want to see bilingualism requirements for Canada's top court become a political issue. Alberta's French lawyers association and the provincial chapter of the French Canadian Association say the requirement protects the rights of French speakers to access the justice s...

CALGARY - A Calgary man who joined the Islamic State terrorist group in the Middle East was sentenced Wednesday to 16 years in prison. "Terrorism has been described as the most vile form of criminal conduct," Court of King's Bench Justice Corina Dario...

The Alberta government says it will review an intersection where three junior hockey players died in a car crash while heading to practice.The crash happened Monday at a highway entrance to Stavely, just over an hour's drive south of Calgary.Three members of the town's Southern Alberta Mustangs hockey team were in a ca...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's government says it will bring in the new budget on Feb. 26 and is warning it will be a tough one. Finance Minister Nate Horner says declining oil prices and ongoing global trade conflict and uncertainty mean the government faces what he calls ``tough choices.'' He says the goal is to ma...

For a second week in a row, Olds Grizzlys forward Jordin St. Louis has earned AJHL Rookie of the Week honours.The Portland Winterhawks prospect extended his point streak to six games and 10 points, including a three-point effort on Jan. 30 which was a 7-4 win for the Grizz over the Drayton Valley Thunder. St. Louis, wh...

A junior hockey team has confirmed that three of its members died in a collision.Southern Alberta Mustangs Junior Hockey has announced that a collision on Monday, Feb. 2, took the lives of three of its players.The Claresholm RCMP says, at 11:00 a.m., they responded to a report of a collision between a semi-truck pullin...

Premier Danielle Smith says her government will withhold funding for new judicial appointments in Alberta if the federal government doesn't give the province a say on who is picked.In a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney more than a week ago, Smith says the appointment process for judges needs reform.She says she wan...

Alberta's recently announced effort to add physician shifts to help triage patients in crowded emergency rooms has been delayed. The program was to have started over the weekend. The head of the Alberta Medical Association says doctors want to participate but says there are issues to be worked out including pay, billin...

Former prime minister Stephen Harper said he has not signed a petition seeking to force a referendum on Alberta leaving Canada.Harper made the comment while speaking alongside former prime minister Jean Chrétien at a panel event at the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in Ottawa. The two made a rare appearance...

Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney says the governing United Conservative Party caucus has ``no business'' signing a petition to force a vote on the province quitting Canada. Kenney says the party, which he helped create and used to lead, has a charter that says it's committed to a strong Alberta within a united Canad...