Alberta

Calgary UCP candidate quits race citing threats

CALGARY- Another United Conservative Party candidate is pulling out of the Alberta election, saying someone outside the party is threatening to release her past social media comments about Muslim refu...

Mar 25, 2019 Eva Kiryakos/ Facebook

Police watchdog called in after Calgary officer allegedly shoots man

Alberta's police oversight unit has been called in after Calgary police say one of their officers shot a man yesterday.Police say they were responding to a report of an armed home invasion, and they s...

Mar 24, 2019

Fog slows down operations at Edmonton Airport

Thick fog forced operations to grind to a halt at Edmonton International Airport yesterday, and police reported over two dozen collisions.Airport spokeswoman Traci Bednard said no arriving or departin...

Mar 24, 2019

University of Alberta discovers world's biggest Tyrannosaurus rex

Paleontologists at the University of Alberta say they have discovered the world's biggest and oldest Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton.Named for a bottle of scotch that was shared the night it was discovered...

Mar 23, 2019 Photo/UAlberta

Edmonton police bogged down with low priority calls

Edmonton's new police chief says his officers are getting bogged down responding to low priority calls such as people being impaired in public.Chief Dale McFee says a new unit will focus on such calls...

Mar 22, 2019 Facebook/Edmonton Police Service

Provincial party leaders continue along campaign trail

Alberta's NDP leader is promising more long-term beds for seniors if her government is re-elected.Rachel Notley made the announcement at a seniors centre in Lethbridge.Meanwhile, United Conservative l...

Mar 21, 2019 Photo: The Canadian Press

Signing a new Metis harvesting agreement a mistake: Alberta Fish and Game Association

The Alberta Fish and Game Association says the provincial government's decision to sign a new Metis harvesting agreement is a mistake.The association says the deal signed last week will give Metis in ...

Mar 21, 2019 Facebook/Alberta Fish and Game Association

'It has to send a message:' Broncos families await sentencing for truck driver

Kevin Matechuk says he will never, never forgive the semi driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash.Matechuk's 19-year-old son Layne of Colonsay, Sask., is still coping with a brain inju...

Mar 21, 2019

Man serving manslaughter sentence escapes from Indigenous-run healing lodge

EDMONTON - A man serving nearly nine years for manslaughter and one other crime has escaped from an Indigenous-run healing lodge in Edmonton.Police say staff at the downtown Stan Daniels Healing Centr...

Mar 21, 2019

B.C. trying to obstruct Trans Mountain pipeline with "Trojan Horse" legislation: Federal Government

The federal government says B-C is trying to obstruct the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion with ``Trojan Horse'' legislation that the province is passing off as a benign environmental measure.Lawyer ...

Mar 21, 2019 Pipe welding on the pipeline construction