Crime & Courts

Red Deer Mountie acquitted of sexual assault, breach of trust

A Red Deer RCMP officer has been found not guilty on charges of sexual assault and criminal breach of trust.Justice Grant S. Dunlop acquitted Jason Tress, 32, on Friday following a week-long trial in ...

Jun 22, 2019

‘You killed me too:’ Mother of slain Calgary Stampeder addresses killer in court

CALGARY - The mother of a Calgary Stampeders football player told a sentencing hearing Thursday that she's angry her son survived the crime-filled streets of Detroit only to be gunned down in Canada.R...

Jun 01, 2019 Mylon Hicks

UPDATE - Mother charged after Fox Creek Amber Alert

UPDATE: Fox Creek RCMP say Charmaine Darnel has been arrested and taken into custody. Charges are pending. Police add the mother and three kids were located near Sylvan Lake by RCMP in that community....

Jun 01, 2019

One man taken into custody after shots fired

Grande Prairie Rural RCMP are looking for more details of a report of shots being fired in the Clairmont area yesterday. The report came in to police at around 6:30 Saturday morning. Nobody was injure...

May 26, 2019

RCMP say Victoria Day long weekend was a busy one for enforcement

RCMP say over the Victoria Day long weekend there were three fatalities and 27 injuries caused by motor vehicle collisions, excluding off-road vehicles, in Alberta.Between May 17 and 20, RCMP Traffic ...

May 24, 2019

Two deaths believed to be related homicides

After the deaths of two adult males, Beaverlodge RCMP, Western Alberta District GIS, and RCMP Major Crimes South are leading investigations. At 2:45a.m.on May 17, a male was dropped off at the hospita...

May 23, 2019

CP NewsAlert: Killer of Calgary mother, daughter gets no parole for 50 years

CALGARY - A man convicted of killing a Calgary mother and her young daughter will have to wait 50 years before he has a chance at parole. A jury found Edward Downey guilty last year of first...

May 21, 2019

Liberals shrugging off concerns about rural crime, opposition MPs charge

OTTAWA - Conservative MPs say a Liberal-dominated committee's half-hearted report on the burgeoning problem of rural crime is an insult to Canadians. New Democrat MPs on the House of Commons public-sa...

May 21, 2019

Man in custody after vehicle crashes through building in Edson

EDSON, AB - RCMP in Edson say they have a suspect in custody, after a vehicle was driven through the provincial building.Officers were called to the scene Saturday around 9:30 a.m.They say one man sto...

May 12, 2019

Alberta’s top court reserves decision on appeal of triple murderer

CALGARY - A lawyer for a man found guilty of killing a couple and their grandson has argued that a judge should never have allowed evidence taken from her client's farm because police shouldn't have b...

May 12, 2019 Photo courtesy the Canadian Press