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If you were boxscore-watching Thursday night’s game between the Edmonton Oilers and Vancouver Canucks, you wouldn’t be able to tell that Alberta’s team was short four members of their top-six. In fact, you wouldn’t think they were missing any players, because on a night when the Oilers score nine goals, one would...
The federal government’s decision to advance the Pacific Link pipeline has not changed the position of Alberta separatist leaders, while Premier Danielle Smith and Wood Buffalo Mayor Sandy Bowman say cooperation can benefit the province and Canada. Albertans will vote Oct. 19 on whether to remain in Canada or trigger a second, binding referendum on separation.
A 67-year-old Spruce Grove man faces one count of an indecent act after a June 6 report involving a window cleaner at a Stony Plain home. Parkland RCMP say they believe there may be more victims and are seeking information.
Olds RCMP say a large truck was linked to the theft of a significant amount of diesel from the Westview Co-op Cardlock. Police are seeking information as Alberta diesel prices reach record levels and similar fuel thefts continue across the province.
Two men face drug trafficking and weapons charges after a six-month RCMP investigation in central and southern Alberta. Searches on Sept. 10 led police to seize drugs and several weapons, including an Uzi-style machine gun.
Alberta Health Services is investigating four confirmed and two probable cases of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli linked to the Mahogany Kinjo Sushi and Grill. The restaurant remains open as officials seek the source and assess any continuing risk.
Fabyan Deschamps says an Edmonton police officer threw her to the ground in August, leaving facial and back injuries. Her complaint was forwarded to Alberta’s serious incident response team for consideration of a criminal investigation.
Alberta-born astronaut Josh Kutryk launched from Florida aboard a SpaceX spacecraft Thursday, drawing cheers and prayers from viewers at an Edmonton library event. Crew-13 is bound for a six-month stay at the International Space Station, where its members will conduct medical and agriculture research.
Starting Thursday, 104 Alberta communities will receive curbside recycling for the first time, while all 287 municipalities in the program can recycle more types of packaging. Producers will cover about $110 million in annual costs previously borne by municipalities and taxpayers.
ASIRT is investigating after a 47-year-old man died in medical distress at a Whitecourt hotel on Sept. 18, shortly after RCMP officers found him unconscious and left him in his suite. The man’s wife discovered him, and he died at the scene despite emergency responders’ efforts.
Alberta’s Court of Appeal has upheld the convictions and sentences of Chris Carbert and Anthony Olienick, leaders of the COVID-19 border blockade at Coutts. The men had appealed, arguing the trial judge made irreconcilable errors.
“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” That phrase followed me to the 2026 Philanthropic Leadership Forum in Edmonton this September, which I attended with fellow members of the Strathcona Community Hospital Foundation Board of Trustees. It felt appropriate. Alberta’s healthcare system has changed...
A wave of Edmonton restaurant closures has coincided with city construction, but operators say rising food, rent, labour and service costs are also squeezing already thin margins. Alberta restaurant sales have reached a record level, even as national data point to widespread losses and changing customer habits.
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith are set to announce a next step for a major infrastructure project in Fort McMurray on Thursday, Oct. 1, the federal deadline for designating a proposed pipeline as a project of national interest. The roughly 1,250-kilometre line would carry more than one million barrels of crude oil a day from Alberta to a port near Delta, B.C., for shipment to international markets.
The Battle of Alberta isn’t much of a battle nowadays. Sure, the Calgary Flames took three of four games from the Edmonton Oilers last season, but after missing the playoffs with 96 points in 2024-25, the Flames bottomed out and finished with 77 points, the third-fewest in the National Hockey League in...
The Alberta government plans to introduce legislation this fall to raise penalties for illegal dumping and require higher-risk waste facilities to register and meet additional operating rules. Premier Danielle Smith cited thousands of Calgary complaints and hundreds in Edmonton as the province pointed to cleanup costs for municipalities, residents and taxpayers.
The Confluence’s Bison Days offers free cultural programming focused on bison and reconciliation for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. The event wraps up Wednesday after beginning last weekend.
Events across Canada on Sept. 30 honour residential school survivors and children who never returned home. The day’s ceremonies and statements renew calls for action on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s recommendations.
Albertans now have until Oct. 31 to apply for a $100 energy rebate, after fewer than half of eligible residents had signed up. The province is also reinstating its fuel tax pause, removing the full 13-cent-per-litre tax starting Oct. 1 through the end of the year.
Indigenous Watchdog says Canadian corporations have made no progress on Call to Action 92, while First Nations leaders differ over Prime Minister Mark Carney’s push to accelerate major projects and offer Indigenous ownership stakes. Concerns include consultation timelines, environmental protections and longstanding gaps in basic infrastructure.