Alberta

Calgary woman fined for cruelty, banned from having animals

CALGARY- A city woman who wrapped a cat's head in duct tape and put the animal in a plastic bin left in a storage unit has been fined $250 and banned from owning animals for 15-years.A dog was also ab...

May 28, 2019

UCP introduces bill to reduce youth minimum wage, change overtime pay

EDMONTON - Alberta is proposing legislation to cut the minimum wage for young workers, and is making changes to overtime pay.Premier Jason Kenney's government has introduced a bill, which --if passed ...

May 28, 2019

Attorney general questioned by RCMP about UCP leadership race

EDMONTON - Alberta Attorney General Doug Schweitzer says he's been questioned by the RCMP in their investigation into his party's leadership race.Mounties are looking into whether voter fraud was comm...

May 27, 2019

Green Party calls for Canada to stop using foreign oil

Green party Leader Elizabeth May says saving the world from climate change requires Canada to get off oil before the middle of the century.In the meantime, she wants Canada off foreign oil as soon as ...

May 27, 2019

Wildfire threatens another northern Alberta community

RED EARTH CREEK- Another northern Alberta community is facing a looming wildfire threat.Provincial fire authorities have issued an emergency alert for Trout Lake because of a blaze 14 kilometres south...

May 27, 2019

Emergency funds for High Level evacuees to start flowing by Monday

HIGH LEVEL, Alta. - Alberta's municipal affairs minister says emergency funds should be available to northwestern Alberta fire evacuees by Monday.Kaycee Madu says every adult will get $1,250 - plus $5...

May 24, 2019

Alberta legislature changing rules to allow MLAs to abstain

EDMONTON - Premier Jason Kenney's government is changing the rules to give MLAs a third option on votes in the Alberta legislature.Legislators will soon be free to remain in their seats and abstain fr...

May 24, 2019

Supreme Court orders new trial for controversial case of Alberta woman found dead in motel

The country's highest court says Ontario trucker Bradley Barton should be retried for manslaughter, but not murder, in the case of Cindy Gladue, who bled to death in the bathroom of his Edmonton motel...

May 24, 2019

Court says B.C. can't restrict oil shipments in key case for Trans Mountain

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Court of Appeal says the province cannot restrict oil shipments through its borders in a decision that marks a win for the future of the Trans Mountain pipeline expans...

May 24, 2019

Three killed in May Long Weekend collisions: RCMP

Three people died as a result of motor vehicle collisions in Alberta on May Long Weekend, according to Alberta RCMP. Mounties also say there were 27 collision-related injuries reported across the prov...

May 24, 2019