Innisfail RCMP is requesting the public's assistance in locating missing 27-year-old male, Matthew Taylor. Mounties say Taylor was last seen in Innisfail on April 11, 2024 and has been out of contact since April 15, 2024. Police say he drives a black 2007 Dodge Nitro with Ab license plate CGL3226. Innisfail RCMP is wor...

There's a sense of renewal happening at the Red Deer and District Community Foundation (RDDCF), largely in part to the recently refreshed and more flexible Microgrant Program.The RDDCF shared all about the program and other goings-on during a recent open house at their new offices, which are just a floor below where th...

A Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools grade four teacher has been named a recipient of the Lois E. Mitchell Award.The award, named after former Alberta Lieutenant Governor Lois E. Mitchell, is awarded to graduating education students from Alberta with a specialization in social studies. This year, Jillian Klevyer, a tea...

A central Alberta man has been sentenced to 22 months in jail, less 95 days pre-trial custody, following a pair of armed robberies two months ago.Shawn Allen Dejongh, 32, of Red Deer County, was sentenced in Red Deer Court of Justice on April 9, 2024.It was on Feb. 6, 2024, shortly after 3:10 p.m., when Red Deer RCMP r...

Documents released under Alberta Freedom of Information laws confirm the United Conservative government was talking with the coal industry for years about relaxing a policy that protected the Rocky Mountains from open-pit mines.The documents also show the province was talking about opening those landscapes to more deve...

Municipal affairs minister Ric McIver said Alberta's required council code of conduct bylaws are not meant to be weaponized as he confirmed Tuesday his ministry is considering changes."We'll try to improve on what's here now," McIver told CHAT News amid a rise in allegations of municipal misconduct across the...

The Alberta government says it will be investing $8 million in a program to help Albertans access justice services. Officials say the Family Justice Strategy, which was first introduced in Edmonton and Calgary in December 2023, is already making a difference for Alberta families, with initial data showcasing a notable ...

The tourism industry is back and better than ever.Travel Alberta reports that international visitors spent $2.53 billion in the province in just the first three quarters of 2023. In the last year before the COVID-19 pandemic began, international tourism spending totalled $2.28 billion for all of 2019.Minister of Touris...

EDMONTON - A judge is ordering the Alberta government to produce a massive trove of documents concerning its efforts to encourage coal mining in the province's Rocky Mountains. The ruling comes in response to an attempt by the United Conservative government to block the release of the documents to a group of southern A...

OTTAWA - The first instalment of the 2024 Canada carbon rebate will be delivered to some Canadians today as long as they filed their taxes by the middle of March. Canadians living in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and all four Atlantic provinces will receive the first of four instalments today if they filed ...

BURNABY, B.C. - The son of a woman killed in a hostage standoff in Surrey, B.C., in 2019 says he stood a block away watching as a "tank" was brought in, and heard multiple flashbangs going off on the night his mother was accidentally shot by police. Brandon McEwen told the jury on the first day of a coroners ...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland introduced the 2024 federal budget on Tuesday. Some key highlights: Housing In hopes of building nearly 3.9 million new homes across Canada by 2031, the government plans to: - increase the capital cost allowance rate for apartments from four to 10 per cent, allowing builders ...

OTTAWA - Here are some key numbers from the Liberal government's federal budget: $535 billion: Total government spending for the 2024-25 financial year. $39.8 billion: The total deficit, just shy of the $40-billion projection in the fall economic statement. $11.5 billion: The amount of new spending this year. $8.5 bill...

OTTAWA - The federal government is going after car thieves in its latest budget, which proposes several new Criminal Code offences specific to auto thefts. The Liberals are proposing new charges for the use of violence while stealing a vehicle and for links to organized crime, as well as laundering money for the benefi...

OTTAWA - The Liberals expect a new bid to curb smoking rates in the federal budget will generate $1.7 billion in new revenue for the government. The increased cash flow coincides with the launch of a new $1.5-billion drug plan to offer universal coverage for contraceptive and diabetes medications. Both programs were bi...

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - A Crown prosecutor making the case against three men charged with mischief at the Coutts, Alta., border blockade told jurors Tuesday they don't have to determine the accused were protest kingpins to find them guilty. Lawyers for the defence, though, argue their clients were moderates who played a sm...

WASHINGTON (AP) - House impeachment managers walked two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas across the Capitol to the Senate on Tuesday, forcing senators to convene a trial on the allegations that he has "willfully and systematically" refused to enforce immigration l...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday ordered the closure of his country's embassy and consulates in Ecuador in solidarity with Mexico in its protest over a raid by Ecuadorian authorities on the Mexican embassy in Quito. Maduro made his announcement during a meeting of the leaders of t...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A federal appeals court has overturned a West Virginia transgender sports ban, finding that the law violates Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools. The ruling Tuesday from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocks a West Virginia law bannin...

NEW YORK (AP) - Donald Trump returned to a New York courtroom Tuesday as a judge works to find a panel of jurors who will decide whether the former president is guilty of criminal charges alleging he falsified business records to cover up a sex scandal during the 2016 campaign. The first day of Trump's history-making h...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - One of Copenhagen's oldest buildings is on fire and its iconic spire has collapsed. The roof of the 17th-century old Stock Exchange, or Boersen, that was once Denmark's financial center, was engulfed in flames Tuesday. The building, which is situated next to the Christiansborg Palace where th...

SYDNEY (AP) - Australian police say a knife attack in Sydney that wounded a bishop and a priest during a church service as horrified worshippers watched online and in person was an act of terrorism. Police arrested a 16-year-old boy Tuesday after the stabbing at Christ the Good Shepherd Church that injured Bishop Mar M...