Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools Board of Trustees named Monica Andrew as the 2026 Council of Catholic School Superintendents of Alberta (CCSSA) Excellence in Catholic Education Leadership Award recipient.Andrew has spent 23 years as an educator, and the honour recognizes her impact as a teacher, counsellor, and spir...

RCMP Major Crimes Unit is investigating the death of a 21-year-old Louis Bull First Nation resident as a homicide.This comes after Maskwacis RCMP were called to Louis Bull First Nation on May 1 at 10:20 p.m. for a possible stabbing.Once police arrived alongside EMS, they found a victim bleeding from a neck wound. Despi...

Red Deer Public Schools announced they've expanded their partnership with the RCMP into both of the division's high schools.The division made the move in an effort to strengthen its commitment to safe and supportive learning environments through its ongoing partnership with the Red Deer RCMP.As a result, the Youth and ...

McHappy Day once again goes this Wednesday, May 6.Now in its 32nd year, the event will raise funds for Ronald McDonald Children's Charities, with proceeds supporting families who rely on Ronald McDonald House during times of medical crisis. Cameron Bay Holdings Inc., which operates the McDonald's restaurants in Gasolin...

The Government of Alberta says reaching out to 211 is now the main access point for mental health and addiction services in the province.It explains that by making 211 the go-to, it is simplifying access.211 can either be called or texted, plus one can visit ab.211.ca, all of which are available 24 hours a day."Wi...

Elections Alberta confirmed Monday it has received signature sheets from Mitch Sylvestre, the proponent behind the "A Referendum Relating to Alberta Independence" citizen initiative petition.The elections authority is also being clear about how it may scrutinize the petition, given the news last week that a s...

It's wildfire season, and the Government of Alberta says it's "geared up and ready."More than 550 seasonal firefighters have been brought on board, for starters. Also in the repertoire will be helicopters with night-vision capability, plus ones that can hoist firefighters in and out of rough terrain. The prov...

Alberta separatists say they have formally submitted almost 302,000 signatures to try to trigger a referendum on the province leaving Canada. The group needed 178,000 signatures to force the province to consider such a vote. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has said if the petition is verified, there will be a referendum...

A four-week jury trial has begun for two men charged following a 2024 deadly roadside shooting near Calgary. Arthur Wayne Penner, 37, of Edmonton, and Elijah Blake Strawberry, 29, of O'Chiese First Nation each face a charge of second-degree murder. They are also charged with attempted murder. The shooting occurred alon...

EDMONTON - An Edmonton city councillor says he and his team are helping a woman facing intimate partner violence relocate with her children after her address was leaked in an alleged privacy breach by a separatist group. The councillor says he is also ...

A Quebec man who drove a bus into a Montreal-area daycare in 2023, killing two children and injuring six others, has asked the Court of Appeal to overturn his high-risk offender designation. Pierre Ny St-Amand was found not criminally responsible by Qu...

Canada's new searchable flood risk tool will only be available in provinces and territories that opt in to the program, a move that's frustrated some flood risk experts even as the federal minister says she anticipates widespread uptake. The federal g...

In a story that moved on May 1, about calls for a ban in Quebec on energy drinks for children under 16, The Canadian Press erroneously reported that the federal government had previously updated regulations about cautionary labels on energy drinks in 2...

VANCOUVER - A lawyer for a man accused of murder in a fatal Vancouver stabbing says her client's unmedicated psychotic state impaired his ability to understand the consequences of his actions on a café patio more than three years ago. Inderdeep Singh ...

VICTORIA - Premier David Eby says neither the RCMP nor Canada's spy agency have ever raised concerns about his cabinet or caucus, after Vancouver's ex-mayor said a minister was being investigated for collaborating with China's government. Eby says he h...

QUÉBEC - Quebec Premier Christine Fréchette intends to renew the Charter's override clause to protect one of the province's French-language laws from court challenges. The legislation to renew the so-called notwithstanding clause will be the first bill...

CARROLLTON, Texas (AP) - A man shot five people in Texas on Tuesday, killing two of them, at a shopping center north of Dallas, police said. It was not a random act of violence and the victims knew the attacker, Carrollton Police Chief Ro...

CARROLLTON, Texas (AP) - A man shot five people in Texas on Tuesday, killing two, in a city north of Dallas, police said. Carrollton Chief Roberto Arredondo said it was not a random act of gunfire and that the victims knew the attacker, w...

N'DJAMENA, Chad (AP) - Boko Haram militants have killed 23 soldiers in an attack on a military post in the Lake Chad region, Chad's armed forces said Tuesday. The region has long been threatened by the Nigeria-based Boko Haram militant gr...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Across the country, Indigenous people are gathering this week to honor loved ones who are missing or have been killed and to call for better data collection, law enforcement response and reforms to make their communities safer....

BEIJING (AP) - An explosion at a fireworks plant in a central Chinese province killed at least 26 people and injured 61 others, authorities reported Tuesday. China's official news agency Xinhua said the blast occurred at a fireworks plant...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Secret Service says a suspect who opened fire Monday on the National Mall did so after being confronted by officers. Secret Service Deputy Director Matt Quinn said officers returned fire. A bystander was struck by th...