Alberta

Evacuation order over, highway open, TSB to investigate Irvine derailment

IRVINE, AB - The Transportation Safety Board will be investigating the train derailment that saw residents within a 7 kilometre radius of Irvine told to evacuate following a train derailment on the we...

Aug 04, 2019 photo courtesy Geoff Watson/CHAT News TODAY

CPC MP Deepak Obhrai passes away

On Saturday, it was announced that longtime Conservative MP Deepak Obhrai had lost his battle with cancer.Obhrai was the representative in the House of Commons for the riding of Calgary Forest Lawn. H...

Aug 04, 2019 photo courtesy Canadian press

Investigators trying to determine cause of train derailment in southeastern Alberta

Investigators are trying to determine what caused a train derailment in southeastern Alberta that forced people from their homes and closed a stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway.Residents in and aroun...

Aug 03, 2019 A Canadian Pacific Rail train on railroad tracks in Alberta.

Thieves break into Edmonton Airbnb, do laundry and leave note for guests

EDMONTON - A Vancouver Island couple had a bizarre experience in a downtown Edmonton Airbnb earlier this week.Rod and Kat Gordon, who went out Sunday after dropping off their luggage, came back to the...

Aug 02, 2019

Alberta post-secondary schools given time to come up with so-called freedom of speech policies

The Alberta government is giving post-secondary schools more time to come up with policies that would protect controversial groups and speakers from being censored on campus.Schools will now have unti...

Aug 02, 2019

ASIRT investigating fatal collision during high-speed pursuit

BLACKFALDS - Alberta's police watchdog is investigating a high-speed pursuit after one person was killed and another was injured.RCMP were following a sports car Wednesday after receiving a complaint ...

Aug 01, 2019

Lack of oxygen a cause of Kananaskis plane crash: TSB

KANANASKIS, Alta. - The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says lack of oxygen likely played a role in a plane crash southwest of Calgary that killed two people a year ago.The board says in a repor...

Aug 01, 2019

50 kilos of meth seized from semi stopped at Alberta-Montana border crossing

Alberta border officers say they have made their largest-ever seizure of methamphetamine at a crossing into Canada from Montana.The Canada Border Services Agency and RCMP say a semi truck with an empt...

Aug 01, 2019 (Photo credit: Border Services PRA)

Shots fired report leads to crash east of Red Deer, ASIRT investigating

The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) is now involved in the investigation of a police chase through parts of central Alberta on Wednesday.Blackfalds RCMP say they were responding to a sh...

Aug 01, 2019 rdnewsNOW

Oilsands producers go directly to voters in effort to shore up support ahead of federal election

Three of Canada's biggest oilsands producers are going directly to voters to ask them to tell politicians they support the oil and gas sector ahead of this fall's federal election.In full-page ads in ...

Aug 01, 2019