Alberta News

EDSON, Alta. — Residents from parts of central Alberta are to be able to return home after the province lifted a wildfire evacuation order. The order for the town of Edson and parts of Yellowhead County is to lift at 6 p.m. today.

EDMONTON — A man who stabbed five young people to death at a Calgary house party will not be released from a group home after a ruling Thursday from Alberta's highest court.

CALGARY — Jarome Iginla is back with the Calgary Flames. The team announced Thursday the Hall of Fame winger has been named special adviser to rookie general manager and former teammate Craig Conroy.

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she’s free to post on Facebook again, a day after she publicly accused the social media giant of censoring her.

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — Two conservation organizations have teamed up to protect one of the largest areas of intact Prairie grasslands and wetlands in Canada.

CALGARY — Canada has no hope of reaching its 2050 climate goals unless it can find a way to speed up the approvals process for major projects in this country, a new report states.

EDMONTON — Three Alberta universities are pooling their resources to investigate the fundamentals of quantum science, with a focus on driving innovation decades from now.

HIGH RIVER, Alta. — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is selling a rail car restaurant she owns with her husband.

TSUUT'INA FIRST NATION — Police in Alberta say they anticipate more complainants will come forward after a former actor and self-described medicine man was charged with sexual exploitation and sexual assault in the province.

CALGARY — A Law Society of Alberta hearing into allegations that a former cabinet minister broke the lawyers' code of conduct won't hear final arguments until September.