Category Archives: Alberta

Alberta Election: Where the leaders are on April 2
Calgary and area will be seeing a lot of campaigning today, as many party leaders are in or around the city making platform announcements. Here is where they will be on April 2 along the campaign trai...
Apr 02, 2019

Decision on injuction in UCP leadership investigation to come tomorrow
An Alberta judge is to decide tomorrow whether to grant an injunction that would postpone an investigation into the United Conservative Party's leadership race.Lawyer Ivan Bernardo told court yesterda...
Apr 02, 2019 Jeff Callaway (left) and Jason Kenney (right) (Photo: Jason Kenney Campaign)

Missing Calgary hunter found west of Sundre
SUNDRE, Alta. - Searchers have found a man who disappeared during a hunting trip last weekend northwest of Calgary.RCMP say Timothy Benedict Campbell, a 33-year-old Calgary man, was found alive Monday...
Apr 02, 2019

April 7 proclaimed as Green Shirt Day; Adams Park Ice Centre to be re-named Logan Boulet Arena
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Nearly a year after his untimely death as a result of the Humboldt Broncos bus tragedy, Logan Boulet's legacy continues to live on in Lethbridge.A pair of resolutions were passed by C...
Apr 01, 2019 Logan Boulet - Photo credit: Humboldt Broncos

RCMP and police in Dubai charge pair in drug seizure
K Division RCMP, with assistance from Dubai Police, and the Canada Border Services Agency, have completed an international opium importation investigation.The drugs are said to have originated in Iraq...
Apr 01, 2019

Hunter goes missing in Calgary
A search is underway for a missing hunter northwest of Calgary.RCMP say Timothy Benedict Campbell of Calgary was out with his son and a friend west of Sundre yesterday morning when the 33-year-old fai...
Apr 01, 2019

Alberta Election: Where the leaders are on April 1, 2019
Today NDP Leader Rachel Notley is in Calgary for an announcement at 10 a.m.United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney will be in Edmonton this morning to make a response to federal carbon tax.Alber...
Apr 01, 2019

Arrest warrants out for pair linked to Red Deer death
The RCMP has issued arrest warrants for two people in the death of a man in Red Deer.Mounties were called to a home in Red Deer's Mountview neighbourhood early Friday and found a 45-year-old man with ...
Apr 01, 2019 37-year-old's Quentin Lee Strawberry (left) and Jennifer Lee Caswell (right) are wanted by RCMP. Do not approach them if seen. (Photo: RCMP / rdnewsNOW)

Kenney promises budget surplus by 2023
CALGARY - The United Conservatives are promising to get Alberta's books out of the red and into a $714-million surplus by 2023, a year earlier than the NDP.UCP Leader Jason Kenney unveiled the numbers...
Mar 31, 2019 United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney speaks to supporters at a rally in Calgary on March 30. (The Canadian Press/Jeff McIntosh)

ASIRT investigates Calgary police officer involved shooting
CALGARY- Alberta's police oversight unit has been called in after Calgary police say one of their officers shot a man on Saturday.Police say they were responding to a report of an armed home invasion,...
Mar 30, 2019