Alberta

Alberta teen found guilty of shooting German tourist, leaving him paralyzed

CALGARY - A youth has been found guilty of shooting a German tourist in the head on a highway west of Calgary last year in what court heard was likely a case of mistaken identity. A judge co...

Oct 20, 2019

Grant plan to cut Alberta class sizes has failed, says education minister

Alberta's education minister says a grant program to cut class sizes in schools has spent $3.4 billion over the last 15 years while failing to deliver results.Adriana LaGrange says a report on the Cla...

Oct 18, 2019 Education Minister Adriana LaGrange

Alberta legislation would scrap NDP plan to change electricity power market

EDMONTON - Alberta has introduced legislation to follow through on its promise to end the plan to move the provincial power market to a capacity system.Energy Minister Sonya Savage says stakeholders d...

Oct 17, 2019 (Lethbridge News Now file photo)

Alberta expanding duties licenced practical nurses can perform

The Alberta government is expanding the duties that licenced practical nurses are allowed to perform. It's amending professional regulations to allow the province's 16,000 LPN's to administer blood, p...

Josh Hall Oct 17, 2019 Health Minister Tyler Shandro

Torrington Hotel robbed at gunpoint

The hunt is on for a man and woman who robbed the Torrington Hotel at gunpoint last night. Olds RCMP say it was about 9:30 p.m. when the pair pulled up to the hotel in an older white pickup truck desc...

Andrew Snook Oct 17, 2019 (Olds RCMP)

Torrington man arrested following domestic dispute with firearm

A man is in custody charges pending following a domestic dispute involving a firearm Wednesday afternoon in Torrington.It was at about 1: 15 p.m. when Olds RCMP responded to report of a distraught fem...

Oct 17, 2019

Alberta introduces legislation allowing access to partner's criminal records

EDMONTON - Alberta is introducing legislation first developed in Britain that allows people in abusive relationships to request information about a partner's criminal record. Premier Ja...

Oct 16, 2019

Whooping cough outbreak declared in southern Alberta

Alberta Health Services has officially declared an outbreak of whooping cough in the western part of the AHS South Zone.This includes the communities of Lethbridge, Raymond and Lethbridge County and c...

Oct 16, 2019

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg in Edmonton Friday for climate strike

EDMONTON - Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is planning to be at the Alberta legislature Friday for a climate strike. Climate Justice Edmonton says the 16-year-old Stockholm student will join acti...

Oct 16, 2019

STARS responds to incidents throughout central Alberta over long weekend

It was a busy couple days for STARS Air Ambulance throughout central Alberta over the Thanksgiving long weekend.On Friday evening, STARS was called out at 6:06 p.m. to an area about 13 kilometres sout...

Oct 16, 2019