It's going to be a "tough few years," Alberta's finance minister told members of the Red Deer District Chamber on Tuesday. Nate Horner, also MLA for Drumheller-Stettler, is on a tour of Alberta, speaking with chambers of commerce about the ins and outs of Budget 2026, released last week. The next three years ...

Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools has announced that St. Patrick's Community School Grade 7 teacher Megan McCullough has been selected by the Board of Trustees as this year's Division finalist for the Alberta School Board Association (ASBA) Edwin Parr Award (Zone 4).Named in honour of past ASBA President Edwin Parr, o...

Lacombe County is reminding all ratepayers, residents, and businesses of the fire permit season which began on March 1, 2026. To ensure community safety and environmental protection, the County requires fire permits for all controlled burns. Officials say unauthorized burning can lead to significant fines and fire depa...

A lockdown had to be put in place at a school in Lacombe on Monday.Lacombe Police Service (LPS) has confirmed that at 3:45 p.m., École James S. McCormick School (5424 50 Street) was the subject of a threat that turned out to be a prank call.As a precautionary measure, the school implemented a lockdown, with offi...

Alberta Hospitals Minister Matt Jones says he doesn't blame doctors for the delay in a core initiative to address extreme pressures in the province's emergency departments. Jones says he's optimistic the government and doctors can find a way to hire the emergency department triage liaison physicians he previously promi...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says with the province's neighbours to the west moving to adopt year-round daylight time, it's once again time to consider abandoning the practice of changing clocks twice a year.British Columbia Premier David Eby says his province will spring forward an hour for the final time Sunday in ...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the war in Iran underscores the need for a new pipeline connecting her province's oil reserves to the West Coast. The threat of shipping disruptions have seen global oil prices jump since American-Israeli attacks on Iran over the weekend. Smith says any disruption in the Strait of Ho...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is calling on Ottawa to walk back its restrictions on nicotine pouches, arguing the rules are a barrier for those trying to quit smoking. The pouches are sold behind the counter at pharmacies, and only one brand has been authorized for sale by Health Canada. Smith and one of her ministers...

Premier Danielle Smith says she hopes failing recall petitions against members of her caucus mean Albertans are feeling heard. Two dozen recall petitions were launched late last year against United Conservative Party legislature members, but so far none have been successful. Many were started after Smith's government u...

Recovery Alberta has reported that the number of syphilis cases within provincial correctional facilities has decreased.A total of 701 cases of syphilis were detected and treated in 2022 in the provinces' 10 jails, but by 2024, that number had decreased to 356.Angela Draude, senior operating officer of Correctional Hea...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is refusing to say whether he believes India is still behind acts of foreign interference and transnational repression in Canada. Six days after a senior official told Canadian journalists that India had stopped such...

The mayor of Prince George in northern British Columbia is the father of six adult children, who got used to the struggle of getting his kids out of bed on dark winter mornings as they were growing up. Those days are now behind Simon Yu, but he still h...

VANCOUVER - A man accused of killing another man at a Vancouver café patio says he found the knife he used in an alley and took it as a "sign from God" that he needed to protect himself. Inderdeep Singh Gosal, 34, pleaded not guilty last month to secon...

VANCOUVER - Police in Vancouver are warning apartment residents of thieves using strands of hot glue to select which units they will break into. Vancouver police say that 10 apartment units in five separate buildings in the city and nearby Burnaby repo...

MONTREAL - A woman who has accused Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet of sexual misconduct once said she had felt "tracked" by him, a witness told a defamation trial in Montreal on Tuesday. Rev. Marcel Pellerin took the stand as a witness for Ouellet, a high...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling for Canada to deepen its trade and security ties with the U.K., Australia and New Zealand in the face of an increasingly unpredictable world. In a speech in London on Tuesday, Poilievre called on...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and ex-Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley each won their party's U.S. Senate nominations in North Carolina on Tuesday, setting the bout for a fall campaign that could determine ...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) - A man convicted of fatally shooting a police officer with his own service weapon during a traffic stop was executed Tuesday evening in Florida, becoming the third person put to death by the state this year after a record 19 executio...

PARIS (AP) - French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday ordered France's nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to move from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean to help protect allied assets during the ongoing war in the Middle East. Macron s...

WINDER, Ga. (AP) - A Georgia man whose teenage son is accused of killing two students and two teachers at a high school was convicted of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter Tuesday. Colin Gray also was found guilty of all ot...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iran struck the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia's capital with a drone early Tuesday as it kept hitting targets around the region, while the United States and Israel pounded Iran with airstrikes in what U.S. President Do...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for California schools to tell religious parents if their children identify as transgender without getting the student's approval, granting an emergency appeal from a conservative legal group. ...