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EDMONTON - Canada's highest court won't hear a conviction appeal from a former Ontario truck driver in the death of a woman at an Edmonton hotel. Bradley Barton was sentenced to 12 1/2 years for mansl...
Sheldon Spackman Aug 8, 2024
Nearly 400 healthcare professionals have been nominated to come to Alberta since the launch of a new immigration stream.In April 2023, the Government of Alberta says it created a Dedicated Healthcare ...
Aug 8, 2024
Alberta Health Services (AHS) is providing the following safety tips in an effort to help residents avoid serious injury and illness while enjoying recreational water activities through the rest of su...
Aug 8, 2024
Crews continue to make progress on large, out-of-control wildfires. Fire danger is now high to very high along the northern boreal region of the province, but relatively low in the central part of Alb...
Aug 8, 2024
An aviation expert says airfares may go up in the immediate aftermath of a hailstorm that tore through Calgary on Monday evening, damaging WestJet planes and upending travel plans. Hailstones as big a...
Sheldon Spackman Aug 8, 2024
There will be less money flowing to Alberta to support jobs this year.The province's Minister of Jobs, Economy and Trade Matt Jones is calling out what he says is "Ottawa's unexpected and unreasonable...
Sheldon Spackman Aug 8, 2024
CALGARY - Residents in Calgary and surrounding communities, fresh off having to conserve water for weeks due to a water main break, are soon going to have to do it all over again. Mayor Jyoti Gondek s...
Sheldon Spackman Aug 7, 2024
The Alberta government has introduced a new scholarship to honour outstanding public law students, the Excellence in Public Law Scholarship.This scholarship will award $10,000 each to two outstanding ...
Aug 7, 2024
CALGARY - WestJet says 16 of its planes have been grounded after a massive hailstorm hit Calgary earlier this week. The Calgary-based airline says those aircraft - 10 per cent of its fleet - need subs...
Sheldon Spackman Aug 7, 2024
OTTAWA - More than three decades after Indigenous leaders in northern Alberta began asking for funding to better understand if pollution from the oilsands was making their people sick, the federal gov...
Sheldon Spackman Aug 7, 2024