Alberta

Southern Alberta firearms petition becomes most signed in Canadian history at 175K

MEDICINE HAT, AB - A local petition against the federal government's proposed ban of "military-style assault rifles" has garnered more support than any other in the country's history.e-2341 was introd...

Feb 20, 2020 Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner MP Glen Motz. (Supplied by GlenMotzMP.com)

Sentencing to begin Thursday for pair guilty of Calgary quadruple killing

CALGARY - A sentencing hearing is to begin in Calgary today for a woman and man found guilty in a 2017 quadruple killing that stemmed from a kidnap-for-ransom plot.Yu Chieh Liao, who also goes by the ...

Feb 20, 2020

Blockade on CN rail line in Edmonton removed, injunction granted

EDMONTON - A blockade set up on a Canadian National rail line on the western edge of Edmonton in support of Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs was being dismantled - at least temporarily - Wednesday after...

Feb 19, 2020 Supporters of the Wet'suwet'en who are against the LNG pipeline, block a CN Rail line just west of Edmonton on Wednesday February 19, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

Beaverlodge woman wins $1 million in lottery

Leslie Vant Erve is now $1 million richer.The Beaverlodge resident won a one-million dollar prize on a Western Max lottery ticket (the regional version of Lotto Max), which was a part of the $24 Super...

Feb 19, 2020 Beaverlodge's Leslie Vant Erve won a million dollar prize from the Western Max draw on January 7, off a ticket she purchased at the Beaverlodge IGA (Photo: Western Canada Lottery Corporation / AGLC)

Blockade supporting Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs set up on rail line in Edmonton

EDMONTON - A blockade has been set up on a CN rail line in Edmonton in support of Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs who opposed a natural gas pipeline in British Columbia.A group called Cuzzins for Wet's...

Feb 19, 2020 Cuzzins for Wet'suwet'en (Twitter)

Tribute to be held in Edmonton to remember Iranian plane crash victims

EDMONTON - A tribute is being held Saturday in Edmonton to remember the Canadians who were killed when a Ukrainian passenger plane crashed minutes after takeoff from Tehran.Reza Akbari, president of t...

Feb 19, 2020

Province to appeal ruling on Rigel project decision

CALGARY - The Alberta government says it will appeal a ruling that gives the province 10 days to make a decision on a bitumen recovery project in the oilsands.Prosper Petroleum Limited had asked a jud...

Feb 19, 2020

New education funding model to take effect in 2020-21 school year

For the first time in 15 years, the Alberta Government is rolling out a new funding model for K-12 education. The new formula will reallocate grants and change the way students are counted. The govern...

Feb 19, 2020 Education Minister Adriana LaGrange made the announcement on Tuesday in Edmonton (Photo: Government of Alberta)

New natural gas pipeline being proposed for north of Medicine Hat

CYPRESS COUNTY, AB - A new natural gas pipeline is being proposed to be built north of Medicine Hat by TC Energy with an estimated potential of generating 500 jobs.TC Energy (formerly known as TransCa...

Feb 18, 2020 Image of the Medicine Hat Looping project being proposed by TC Energy. (Image courtesy of TC Energy)

New dinosaur unearthed in Alberta a significant find for the field of paleontology

DRUMHELLER, AB - The 'reaper of death' has been discovered in Alberta.That's what a new dinosaur found near the hamlet of Hays, the Thanatotheristes degrootorum, is being called.Lethbridge News Now sp...

Feb 18, 2020 An illustration of the Thanatotheristes (Photo credit: Julius Csotonyi)