Category Archives: Alberta

CALGARY - Tzeporah Berman only learned of her cameo appearance at an Alberta government news conference about its so-called energy war room after a flood of nasty messages. Industry adv...

CALGARY - Alberta's police watchdog says no charges will be laid against a Calgary police officer who shot a suspect dead with a powerful patrol rifle.The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team says t...

EDMONTON- Three impaired driving-related charges have been laid against an Edmonton school bus driver after she allegedly drove erratically while transporting several students.The 39-year-old woman ha...

TURNER VALLEY- A woman on a motorcycle has been nabbed for extreme speeding on a highway south of Calgary.RCMP say she was clocked on radar doing 224 km/h on a 90 km/h on Highway 762.The 26-year-old f...

EDMONTON- The Kenney government has introduced legislation that would strip away some bargaining rights from an estimated 200,000 public sector workers.Union leaders are calling it a gross violation o...

CALGARY - Albertans are reminded to take simple steps to protect themselves from hantavirus, a potentially fatal illness that primarily affects the lungs/respiratory system.Hantavirus is caused when h...

Ottawa says a federal carbon tax will be imposed on Alberta starting Jan. 1.Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says she has written the province to inform it of the decision.She says 90 pe...

DRUMHELLER, Alta. - An advocacy group has raised doubts over whether an overdose prevention site proposed for a southern Alberta prison will work.The Correctional Service of Canada says it has receive...

PROVOST - Two seniors from Kitchener, Ont., have been killed in a highway crash in east-central Alberta.RCMP at Provost say it appears a car heading east on Highway 13 Wednesday afternoon crossed the ...

The Alberta government has served notice it will bring in legislation to allow the province to override bargained contract agreements and delay wage talks for thousands of public-sector workers.Govern...