Alberta

St. Albert council votes to ban conversion therapy

ST. ALBERT - An Edmonton-area community has voted to ban conversion therapy - the practice of attempting to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity through counselling or religious tea...

Jul 9, 2019

Conservationists submit legal challenge to Trans Mountain reapproval over whales

VANCOUVER - The federal government is facing a new legal challenge after it approved the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion for a second time.Ecojustice has filed a motion to the Federal Court of Appea...

Jul 8, 2019

Calgary city councillor saves man from possible OD

CALGARY- A city councillor jumped into action with a naloxone kit when she found a man lying unresponsive on a lawn across from her home.Diane Colley-Urquhart says she couldn't rouse him, his pulse ra...

Jul 8, 2019

Writing-on-Stone monument named UNESCO World Heritage Site

OTTAWA - The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has added Alberta's Writing-on-Stone monument to its list of World Heritage Sites.The federal government says the designat...

Jul 7, 2019 The site is located southeast of Lethbridge. (Government of Alberta)

Man dead after paddleboard fall in Banff National Park

LAKE LOUISE, AB - Divers have recovered the body of a man who disappeared after falling off a paddleboard in Banff National Park over the Canada Day long weekend.RCMP say the 25-year-old man's body wa...

Jul 7, 2019

Brooks RCMP searching for missing driver after vehicle hits ravine

COUNTY OF NEWELL, AB - Brooks RCMP are searching for the driver of a vehicle that became submerged in a ravine on Friday evening.Police were called to a rural property about 20 kilometres west of Broo...

Jul 7, 2019 (RCMP)

Alberta to hold $2.5-million public inquiry into funding for oil and gas foes

CALGARY - The Alberta government will hold a public inquiry into environmental groups that it says have been bankrolled by foreign benefactors hell-bent on keeping Canada's oil and...

Jul 6, 2019

One dead after crash near Wetaskiwin

A collision just north of Wetaskiwin has claimed one life.RCMP say it was July 5 around 2:20 p.m. when members received a report of a crash between a semi truck and a 2007 Ford Focus at the intersecti...

Jul 6, 2019

Calgary couple guilty in son's staph death appeal convictions, sentences

CALGARY - A Calgary couple found guilty in the death of their 14-month-old son are appealing their convictions and sentences. Jennifer Clark and her husband Jeromie Clark were sentenced...

Jul 6, 2019

Police, military co-ordinate to detonate 'unexploded ordnance' in Jasper NP

JASPER, Alta. - Police and the military have co-ordinated to blow up a piece of "unexploded ordnance" found by climbers in Jasper National Park. RCMP say climbers found the device on the north si...

Jul 6, 2019