Category Archives: Alberta

Lengthy road closure after Thanksgiving Monday crash in northern Alberta
GRASSLAND- Three people were taken to hospital after a collision involving two semi-trailer trucks and a car in northern Alberta. The crash happened Monday afternoon on Highway 63, about five kilometr...
Oct 09, 2018

Medicine Hat couple completes Epic Journey in vintage auto
MEDICINE HAT, AB - A Medicine Hat couple completed a journey that was three years in the making. Bart and Lisa Campbell travelled 10 days in September from Medicine Hat to Hague, Saskatchewan. The rea...
Oct 08, 2018

UPDATE: Edmonton Amber Alert suspect charged with kidnapping
Edmonton police have charged the man they said had ‘forcibly abducted’ a teenage girl in Edmonton on Friday afternoon. The incident led to an Ambert Alert being issued, though the girl was...
Oct 05, 2018

Driver killed after being struck by tour bus in Columbia Icefield parking lot
A tour bus driver is dead after she was struck by her vehicle in the parking lot of the Columbia Icefield Discovery Centre on Thursday. According to RCMP, the driver, a 52-year-old woman believed to b...
Oct 05, 2018

Fort McMurray wins FireSmart award
FORT McMURRAY- The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo has won a fire protection award two years after a massive wildfire ravaged parts of Fort McMurray. FireSmart Canada says the award recognizes t...
Oct 05, 2018

'Insensitive and disrespectful:' Mass killer's review angers victim's father
CALGARY - The father of one of five young people stabbed to death at a Calgary house party in 2014 says the mental health board overseeing the killer’s treatment has been insensitive and disresp...
Oct 04, 2018

'Like asteroids:' Study says Martian moons likely blown off planet's surface
EDMONTON - New research suggests Mars’ moons were once part of the planet, blasted into space by some cataclysmic collision long ago. Until now, the most common theory was that Deimos and Phobos...
Oct 04, 2018

Calgary one of three cities remaining in 2026 Olympic bid race
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - A potential Calgary bid for the 2026 Winter Games is one of three that will be proposed as an official candidate for approval, International Olympic Committee president Thoma...
Oct 04, 2018

Edmonton police make arrests in alleged vehicle cloning operation
EDMONTON- Police say three people face charges in an alleged vehicle identification number cloning operation. Officers uncovered the scheme last week when they searched a home, where they say they fou...
Oct 04, 2018

Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton officially open
EDMONTON – Alberta’s new provincial museum in downtown Edmonton is officially open. Premier Rachel Notley unveiled a life-sized statue of the Royal Alberta Museum’s signature Ice Age...
Oct 04, 2018