Alberta

Alberta education minister releases new guidelines for school seclusion rooms

EDMONTON - Alberta's education minister says seclusion rooms in schools will not be banned, but only used as a last resort when a student poses significant and imminent danger to themselves or others....

Oct 23, 2019

Premier Kenney to speak in television address tonight

On the eve of the provincial budget, Premier Jason Kenney is taking to the airwaves to speak to Albertans.Kenney will speak in a televised address that will air at 6:10 p.m. on Global News. it will al...

Oct 23, 2019

Calgary-based contractor wanted for fraud in Saskatchewan

==Mounties in Saskatchewan believe a man wanted in relation to a three-year-old fraud investigation is in Alberta, and a Canada-wide warrant has been issued for his arrest.In December of 2016, the Yor...

Oct 23, 2019

Mounties charge four people after protest at Alberta turkey farm

FORT MACLEOD, Alta. - A protest at an Alberta turkey farm last month has resulted in criminal charges against four people.Dozens of activists from Western Canada converged on the Jumbo Valley Hutterit...

Oct 23, 2019

UCP government to continue with NDP’s petrochemical credit program, cancel two others

The United Conservative government in Alberta says it will continue with a program introduced by the former NDP regime to use $1.1 billion in natural gas royalty credits to encourage new petrochemical...

Oct 23, 2019

Alberta finance minister says first budget to attack spending, not services

EDMONTON - Alberta Finance Minister Travis Toews says the first budget of the new United Conservative government will surgically attack spending but not at the expense of essential services. Toews say...

Oct 23, 2019

Kenney to Trudeau: "The time for talk is over"

EDMONTON- After the Liberals failed to secure a single seat in Alberta or Saskatchewan, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he hears Alberta's frustrations.Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says that isn't ...

Oct 23, 2019 Premiers Jason Kenney and Scott Moe

Maskwacis RCMP seek public assistance to locate wanted man

MASKWACIS- An arrest warrant has been issued for 45-year-old Richard Jason Deschamps in relation to an aggravated assault on the Samson First Nation on October 9. RCMP are investigating following the ...

Oct 23, 2019 Richard Jason Deschamps

McMillan wildfire caused by arsonist, police say

EDMONTON- Arson was the cause of the McMillan wildfire in May that threatened remote communities in north-central Alberta and torched 2,730 square kilometres of forest.RCMP and Alberta government offi...

Oct 23, 2019 (Photo: The Canadian Press)

Political scientist weighs in on what minority government means for Alberta

Medicine Hat, AB - Medicine Hat College political science instructor Jim Groom is hopeful that the Liberal minority government won't be as bad as many Albertans believe it will be."I think it's going ...

Oct 22, 2019