Alberta

Province announces funding for 4,000 detox spaces

The Alberta government says it's funding 4,000 addiction treatment beds and spaces, outpatient services and medically assisted detox spaces.It's part of the $140 million dollars for addiction and ment...

Sep 11, 2019

Jet makes emergency landing after hitting flock of geese

Budget airline Swoop says a flight from Abbotsford, BC to Edmonton had to turn back moments after takeoff yesterday morning because of a bird strike.Flight 312 ran into a flock of geese and was forced...

Sep 11, 2019

Married Couple Anthony and James win season 7 of CTV's The Amazing Race

EDMONTON - Anthony Johnson and James Mokakis hope being the first Indigenous, two-spirit couple to compete on The Amazing Race Canada would give them a national platform to highlight issues close to t...

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One dead, two injured after car crash in Fort McMurray on the weekend

RCMP say a 17-year-old boy was killed on the weekend after a car veered off the road and ran into a house in Fort McMurray.Police say people inside the house were escorted out by fire crews and severa...

Sep 10, 2019

Alberta government challenges Ottawa's new environmental assessment process

The Alberta government has officially asked the province's Appeal Court whether Ottawa's new environmental assessment process for major construction projects like pipelines is constitutional.The gover...

Sep 10, 2019

Second man charged in Lethbridge hockey tournament assault

A second man has been charged after an attack on a referee and a coach at a recent youth hockey tournament in Lethbridge, Alta.Police say a 36-year-old man they had been seeking turned himself in Sund...

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Medical assessments say man who fatally stabbed mother was under 'cannabis-induced psychosis'

Two doctors who assessed an Edmonton man after he fatally stabbed his mother said they believed he was experiencing an acute cannabis-induced psychosis at the time.Thirty-three-year-old Jason Glenn Di...

Sep 10, 2019

Province opens public submissions for environmentalist foreign funding inquiry

EDMONTON - The Alberta government has started a website to allow people to submit information to its inquiry into foreign funding of environmental groups.Inquiry commissioner Steve Allan says he is al...

Sep 09, 2019

AHS issues alert after food handler found to have hepatitis A

EDMONTON - Alberta Health Services has issued a public alert following confirmation of hepatitis A in a food handler in Edmonton.The health agency says the infected individual helped to prepare food a...

Sep 09, 2019

One dead following head-on collision near Westlock

WESTLOCK, Alta. - A man has been killed in a head-on collision on a northern Alberta highway.RCMP at Westlock say a truck was headed south on Highway 44 shortly after 5 a.m. today when an oncoming nor...

Sep 09, 2019