Alberta

Man charged with murder after domestic situation in central Alberta

Charges have been laid in the shooting death of a woman in central Alberta.RCMP say 44-year-old Marshall Lawrence Stone is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Ashley Ames, and also faces...

Jul 30, 2019

School bus crashes into pool in St. Albert

Police say no children were inside a school bus when it splashed into a swimming pool near Edmonton.RCMP say they were called to a residential backyard in St. Albert yesterday afternoon.E-M-S examined...

Jul 30, 2019

Date for fall federal election will not change

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Voters will head to the polls on October 21st, 2019 after all.The country's Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Stephane Perrault was asked by observant members of the Jewish community to r...

Jul 30, 2019

Forty-year high for area burned by wildfires reached in Alberta

Alberta officials say wildfires this year have burned an area larger than Banff National Park and displaced about 15-thousand people.Alberta Wildfire says fires that burned between March and June cons...

Jul 29, 2019 Photo: Facebook / Alberta Wildfire

Fire code charges laid against fire safety company after seven-month investigation

The City of Calgary has laid dozens of fire code charges against a fire safety company and several of its customers.Premium Fire Protection Ltd. and 10 of its employees are facing 65 charges under the...

Jul 29, 2019

Calgary councillor no longer in favour of new arena

A Calgary councillor who pushed for more time to look at the city's tentative deal for a new arena now says he'll be voting against it.Jeromy Farkas says the money would be better spent on many other ...

Jul 29, 2019

New farm legislation seeks to be grown from the grassroots

MEDICINE HAT, AB - The newly minted provincial agriculture minister made his first trip to southeastern Alberta in that capacity to hear from local farmers and ranchers about what should be in the new...

Jul 29, 2019

Seniors killed in fatal car crash in southern Alberta

COALDALE, Alta. - The RCMP say a couple in their 80's are dead after their vehicle collided with a tractor trailer in southern Alberta.The crash happened Saturday evening near Coaldale, Alta., just ea...

Jul 28, 2019

Woman dead after domestic incident in Rocky Mountain House

RCMP South Major Crimes Unit announced Saturday they are investigating a homicide in the west central Alberta town of Rocky Mountain House.Police say they responded just after 7:30 p.m. on July 26 (Fr...

Jul 28, 2019 (B94/RockynewsNOW)

Two dead after glider crash near Black Diamond

BLACK DIAMOND, Alta. - Emergency medical officials say two people are dead after a glider crashed southwest of Calgary.EMS responded to reports of the crash near the Cu Nim Gliding Club, which is east...

Jul 27, 2019