Category Archives: Alberta
Province considers taking road tests back from private sector
EDMONTON – Service Alberta Minister Brian Malkinson says the government might take driver road tests back from the private sector due to concerns about oversight and high fees compared with the ...
Jul 12, 2018
Central Alberta Mountie charged with impaired driving
An Alberta Mountie has been placed on administrative duty after being charged with impaired driving. Cst. Andrea Bole is a member with the Viking RCMP detachment. It was last Thursday when Mounties in...
Jul 11, 2018
Calgary man sentenced in girlfriend's death
CALGARY- A 34-year-old Calgary man convicted of killing his girlfriend and attempting to frame her death as a suicide has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. Luke Anthony MacLeod was sentenced yeste...
Jul 11, 2018
Western provinces to meet Thursday to discuss Greyhound downsizing
VICTORIA - The B.C. government has been busy reacting to Greyhound Canada’s announcement Monday that it plans to suspend its operations in Western Canada effective this October 31. In a teleconf...
Jul 10, 2018
Cites Humboldt crash: Alberta making driver training for new truckers mandatory
CALGARY - Alberta is making driver training for new commercial truckers mandatory as early as January 2019, citing the recent horrific Humboldt bus crash as the impetus to get it done as soon as possi...
Jul 10, 2018
Fort Macleod weighing offers for historic courthouse building
FORT MACLEOD - The historic territorial courthouse building in Fort Macleod could soon have a new owner. Town of Fort Macleod chief administrative officer Sue Keenan said the town has two offers to pu...
Jul 10, 2018
Four-year prison sentence handed to former Lethbridge teacher on child porn charges
LETHBRIDGE - Former Lethbridge school teacher Dwayne Schnell has received a four-year prison sentence on child pornography charges. Schnell had previously pleaded guilty to charges of making and distr...
Jul 10, 2018
Southern Alberta oil spill contained
JENNER- Crews have managed to contain a leak of between 100-thousand and 200-thousand litres of oil and water from a pipeline in southern Alberta. The Alberta Energy Regulator says the leak was discov...
Jul 10, 2018
Province supporting Alberta’s military families
EDMONTON- Alberta is one of two provinces kicking off a federal pilot project to help military families settle into their new communities when they are posted to the province. The Military Families an...
Jul 10, 2018
RCMP lay charges in fatal Thorhild area school bus crash
THORHILD- Charges have been laid in the death of a teenage girl who was on a school bus involved in a collision with a transport truck. Maisie Watkinson, 15, died on March 7 when the bus was hit from ...
Jul 10, 2018