Alberta

Weather Network predicts a warm, but smokey summer for much of Alberta

Summer officially arrives at 9:54 a.m. local time.The Weather Network is predicting BC, Yukon and the western Northwest Territories are in for very warm summers.A warm summer is also expected across m...

Jun 21, 2019 Muskoseepi Park, photo by Sheena Roszell

Mountie on trial denies asking woman in custody to lift shirt

A Red Deer RCMP officer says that at no point did he ask a woman in custody to lift her shirt and how him her breasts.Jason Tress, 32, has pleaded not guilty to sexual assault and breach of trust and ...

Jun 21, 2019

Environmental assessment overhaul, tanker ban bills face final vote in Senate

OTTAWA - The Liberal government's push to make climate change impacts part of the assessment process for new national resource projects faces its final hurdle today.Bill C-69 is back in the Senate for...

Jun 20, 2019

Child abuse paediatrician testifies at Stephan retrial

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Compared with the testimony and cross-examination of most of the Crown witnesses, Dr. Jennifer D'Mello's time on the stand on Wednesday, June 19 was very brief.The paediatrician, clin...

Jun 20, 2019 David and Collet Stephan (Lethbridge News Now)

Calgary manslaughter trial hears five-year-old boy victim of weeks of abuse

CALGARY - A Calgary manslaughter trial has heard a boy who came to Canada for a better life instead endured weeks of abuse at the hands of his grandfather.Prosecutor Shane Parker delivered closing arg...

Jun 20, 2019

Alberta asks Court of Appeal to look at constitutionality of federal carbon tax

EDMONTON - Alberta's justice minister says the province is asking the courts to look into the constitutionality of the federal government imposing its carbon tax.Doug Schweitzer says the province has ...

Jun 20, 2019

Toews making no promises on labour talks

EDMONTON - Alberta's finance minister won't promise that public sector workers will get their legally mandated wage arbitration hearings if they don't happen as planned this fall.Travis Toews will onl...

Jun 20, 2019 Photo: Government of Alberta

ASIRT looking into death of Calgary woman who fell off balcony

CALGARY - Alberta's police watchdog is investigating the death of a woman who went over a balcony and died as Calgary police were trying to take her into custody.Police say they were granted a drug-re...

Jun 19, 2019

Faster accreditation approval for foreign workers goal of new UCP Bill

EDMONTON - Alberta is bringing in new rules to ensure that foreign-trained professionals get speedy action as they seek to get accreditation to work.Labour Minister Jason Copping says too many newcome...

Jun 19, 2019

Finance minister acknowledges skepticism, vows to build Trans Mountain expansion

CALGARY - Canada's finance minister says the best way to convince a skeptical oilpatch that the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion Ottawa approved Tuesday will actually be built is to go ahead and buil...

Jun 19, 2019