Alberta

Alberta Election: Where the leaders are on April 9

Today NDP Leader Rachel Notley is in Calgary for a presentation to the Senate Committee on Transport and Communications. United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney is in Calgary today as well. Kenn...

Apr 09, 2019

Aging oil and gas wells moves to top of the agenda for upcoming election

CALGARY - An Alberta coalition of landowners, researchers and former regulators wants to force the issue of aging oil and gas wells to the top of the agenda in the provincial election campaign.The Alb...

Apr 08, 2019

City of Edmonton pleads guilty to charge under the Animal Protection Act

EDMONTON - The City of Edmonton says it has pleaded guilty to a regulatory charge under the Animal Protection Act in the deaths of three feral cats.All charges against four city employees at the Anima...

Apr 08, 2019

Employment in energy sector projected to go down further

A new report predicts direct employment in Canada's oil and gas sector will be down 23% this year over levels in 2014 before the oil price shock.Petroleum Labour Market Information is forecasting the ...

Apr 08, 2019

On the campaign trail, April 8: Kenney and Notley focus on Trans Mountain, Mandel to boost agriculture

Notley says approval for Trans Mountain is closeAlberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley says the province is nearer than ever to getting federal approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.During an el...

Apr 08, 2019

Three charged after suspects ram police vehicles

Two men and one woman have been charged in Alberta after RCMP say they responded to a rural break-and-enter and the suspects attempted to ram police vehicles while trying to get away.RCMP say they got...

Apr 08, 2019

10 cases of Salmonella identified in Alberta

The Public Health Agency of Canada says the source of the bacterial infection from a salmonella outbreak still hasn't been identified.Sixty-three people in six provinces have fallen ill, including 18 ...

Apr 07, 2019 photo courtesy The Canadian Press

ASIRT investigating police shooting incident at Eckville oil field site

The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team has taken over the investigation into an incident on Saturday in Eckville.Sylvan Lake RCMP originally responded around 8:15 a.m. to an oil field site on 54 A...

Apr 07, 2019

“F*** NDP” scratched into Red Deer family’s car

Election-related vandalism has hit a new low in Red Deer.Kerstin and Dirk Heuer stepped out from their home in Sunnybrook Wednesday morning to find one of their vehicles was vandalized overnight.Both ...

Apr 05, 2019 The words "F*** NDP" were scratched into a Red Deer family's car sometime between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. (rdnewsNOW/Sheldon Spackman)

Alberta Election: Where the leaders are on April 5

Today NDP Leader Rachel Notley will begin her day in Edmonton for a leader's event. She will be at another leader's event in Sherwood Park early this afternoon, and will also be in Grande Prairie for ...

Apr 05, 2019