Category Archives: Alberta

EDMONTON – The Notley government has appointed six new provincial court judges four women and two men. Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley says the new judges help address pressures in the court sy...

BROOKS – RCMP say a 25-year-old man from southeastern Alberta faces nine charges related to child pornography andsexual assault. Eric Manysiak, who is from Brooks, was arrested Feb. 14 with the ...

TORONTO — Payless ShoeSource Canada Inc. says it will soon file for creditor protection in Canada and close all 2,500 of its North American stores this spring. The Kansas-based company’s c...

A central Alberta man has been charged with murder in the death of a woman at the Samson Cree First Nation. Maskwacis RCMP responded just after 3 a.m on Feb. 15 to a report of an unresponsive female a...

CALGARY - The National Energy Board is rejecting a call made by an environmental group last month to greatly expand the scope of its reconsideration of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Stand.ear...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says the province is spending $3.7 billion to move landlocked oil to market by rail - and it isn’t counting on Ottawa to pitch in. “We must take ac...

CALGARY - Police say the death of a man whose remains were found after a house explosion in Calgary on the weekend is not suspicious. They say the man has tentatively been identified as a resident of ...

Team Alberta’s mittens at the Canada Winter Games in Red Deer are bringing in mixed reviews. One mitt of the pair has, “Oil Oil” written on it accompanied by an oil rig design, while...

GRASSLAND- RCMP say the debris has been cleared and traffic is moving again on a busy northern Alberta highway after a semi-tanker truck carrying molten sulphur rolled, resulting in a cargo leak. The ...

EDMONTON- Provincial education minister David Eggen says Opposition Leader Jason Kenney is being ignorant, deceptive, and deceitful about the ongoing curriculum review for all school grades. Eggen say...