Alberta

Unwelcome visssssitor at Lethbridge university

The University of Lethbridge had an unwelcome visssssitor this week - a rattlesnake managed to fall through a grate and into an office.The school called in professional snake catcher Ryan Heavy Head, ...

May 09, 2019

Possible taunting led to elk being killed near Canmore

CANMORE - RCMP say they believe some young people may have harassed a herd of elk just before a number of the animals were killed by a semi last month near Canmore.The collision happened April 27 on t...

May 09, 2019

Construction underway on new Waterton Lakes National Park Visitor Centre

WATERTON LAKES NP - After several years of planning, public engagement, engineering and design work, construction is now underway on the new Waterton Lakes National Park Visitor Centre.The $17.3 milli...

May 09, 2019 Artist's rendition of new Waterton Lakes National Park Visitor Centre

Pipelines needed to quell anxiety around Alberta oil prices

An oilsands producer says fears of another Alberta oil price crisis are ebbing thanks to production cuts imposed by the former NDP government and the profitability of shipping crude by rail.But Canadi...

May 09, 2019 (Canadian Press/Larry MacDougal)

Ex-mortgage broker convicted of fraud, theft loses appeal, must turn himself in

CALGARY - A former mortgage broker convicted of multiple counts of fraud and theft has had his appeal dismissed.The Alberta Court of Appeal says Brandon Antonini must turn himself in within 24 hours.A...

May 09, 2019

Convicted murderer Douglas Garland's rights were violated: Lawyer

The Alberta Court of Appeal has reserved its decision in a bid by a Calgary man to overturn his conviction in the murders of a couple and their grandson.The lawyer for Douglas Garland argues evidence ...

May 09, 2019 Douglas Garland is shown here in this 2014 photo being escorted into a Calgary police station. (Canadian Press/Jeff McIntosh)

Man charged with second-degree murder in deaths of Calgary woman, toddler

CALGARY - A man suspected of killing a woman and her toddler daughter has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder. Robert Andrew Leeming, 34, appeared via video before a justice of t...

May 09, 2019

Alberta's Freedom Conservatives pick interim boss

EDMONTON - The former politician who founded his own party after he was kicked out of the United Conservative caucus says he is done with political life.Former Freedom Conservative leader Derek Fildeb...

May 09, 2019

Man charged in fatal Calgary swarming facing life in prison

CALGARY - A man charged in a fatal swarming and stabbing outside a Calgary nightclub more than five years ago and who later fled the country to avoid justice has been found guilty of first-degree murd...

May 09, 2019

Energy sector construction accident kills two workers

FOX CREEK- A construction accident in northern Alberta has killed two workers.Source Energy Services says that the contractors died on Tuesday during work on additional storage capacity for what's kno...

May 09, 2019