Alberta

New provincial record set for first two days of advance polling

The Around 276,000 people cast ballots during the first two days of advance polling for next Tuesday's provincial election.That's about 41,000 more than for the entire advance period for the 2015 elec...

Apr 11, 2019

Alberta Election: Where the leaders are on April 11

NDP Leader Rachel Notley is in Calgary this morning at the Coffee Cats Cafe, in the afternoon she'll be in Nanton for a leader's event, and in the late afternoon she will be in Lethbridge for another ...

Apr 11, 2019

Calgary police seek help finding 12-year-old girl

Calgary police are asking the public for help in locating a 12-year-old girl believed to have been taken to Iraq in an alleged parental abduction.Police say Ali Al Aazawi and his daughter Zahraa left ...

Apr 10, 2019

Crown appeals sentence to police officer accused of corruption

The Crown is appealing a three-month intermittent sentence handed to a Calgary police officer for corruption-related crime.Anthony Braile, who is 50, was one of three officers convicted of criminal ha...

Apr 10, 2019

Man accused of breaking the arm of a woman after a road rage fit heads to trial

EDMONTON - The trial of an Edmonton man who is accused of breaking a woman's arms with a crowbar in a fit of road rage has heard that he insisted during a police interview that he was innocent.Jared E...

Apr 10, 2019

Alberta Election: Where the leaders are on April 10

Alberta Party Leader Stephen Mandel is in Grande Prairie today at the Mamawe Concourse at Montrose. At 11 a.m. he's making an announcement there on crime prevention. NDP Leader Rachel Notley spends th...

Apr 10, 2019

On the campaign trail, April 9: Notley pitches to Feds; B.C willing to battle Kenney; Mandel to increase post-secondary spaces

Notley fights Federal Bill C-48Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley says the proposed federal tanker ban bill for British Columbia will impede her province's efforts to get oil to new markets.She says Bil...

Apr 09, 2019

Edmonton parts ways with company working on LRT

Edmonton's mayor says it's the end of the line for a company hired to install a signal system on a new section of the city's light-rail transit network.Don Iveson says Thales Canada Incorporated consi...

Apr 09, 2019

Man accused of trying to kill officer struggles to find legal-aid

A man accused of trying to kill an Edmonton police officer is still without a lawyer six months before his trial.Abdulahi Hasan Sharif also faces charges related to a cube van speeding through the cit...

Apr 09, 2019

Calgary man found not guilty of second-degree murder

A Calgary homeless man has been found not guilty of second-degree murder in the stomping of another shelter client.Faud Yasir Ali was charged after Mustafe Mohamud Hussein died in the summer of 2015.C...

Apr 09, 2019