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CALGARY - The Calgary Flames pulled out of an arena deal with the city because team owners were no longer willing to shoulder a disproportionate amount of rising costs or more risk. Calgary Sports and...

A trial date has been set for a Ponoka woman charged in a drug and weapons seizure in Grande Prairie this summer.Both Danica Joyce Nystrom, 26, of Ponoka, and Stacey Aaron Trotter, 36, of Grande Prair...

Ponoka Town Council recently approved a $3,500 donation to support the Ponoka & District Health Foundation's 'Greatest Need' Fund from the Council Advertising Budget. Town officials note the donat...

Charges have been withdrawn for a Penhold man accused in a pair of altercations that took place during an anti-racism demonstration in Red Deer last year.Two charges of assault against Trevor Lyle Roy...

DARTMOUTH, N.S. - Halifax police are looking for two suspects after an 8-year-old boy was fatally shot while inside a car with an adult Tuesday afternoon. Const. John MacLeod today identified the chil...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government is pushing back at U.S. President Joe Biden's televised message to vaccinated Americans that they can gather safely for the holidays despite the spread of the Omicron v...

OTTAWA - The federal government is spending another $30 million to help people at risk of going hungry, bringing total funding to $330 million. The top-up of the Emergency Food Security Fund will prov...

Jamie Cudmore is coaching again, thanks to a unique partnership in the rugby fraternity. The 43-year-old former Canadian international from Squamish, B.C., was fired as head of Rugby Canada's national...

OTTAWA - The Defence Department's top procurement official says he would feel safe flying on one of the military's new naval helicopters despite the fleet's rash of recent problems. Assistant deputy m...

Scientists say an amazingly well-preserved fossil egg adds more evidence to the close links between dinosaurs and modern birds. Darla Zelenitsky from the University of Calgary has just published a pap...