Alberta News

EDMONTON — Alberta's information commissioner has started an investigation into how the province's energy regulator notified the public about tailings pond releases at Imperial Oil's Kearl mine.

CALGARY — Budget airline Lynx Air announced it's launching two new routes for the summer, one from Hamilton to Vancouver and one from Toronto to Kelowna, B.C.

CALGARY — An Alberta education official told a fatality inquiry Wednesday that different rules were in place in 2013 that allowed a malnourished 15-year-old Calgary boy who died of sepsis and untreated diabetes from being seen by school staff.

CALGARY — Peter Anholt has been tasked with helping Canada win a third straight world junior hockey championship after two successful seasons leading the country's under-18 program.

EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers have signed forward Carl Berglund to a two-year entry level contract. The 23-year-old had 12 goals and 15 assists in 36 games in his senior NCAA season at UMass Lowell.

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — An investigation is underway following the discovery of a woman's body along a park pathway in Fort McMurray, Alta.

EDMONTON — For the beloved and well-known elephant named Lucy, the Edmonton Valley Zoo says it will continue to be her home for the rest of her life based on medical assessments.

CALGARY — A 15-year-old boy who died in Calgary weighing just 37 pounds was also near death in a British Columbia hospital about a decade earlier, a child welfare official from that province testified at the teen's fatality inquiry.

EDMONTON — Premier Danielle Smith says laggardly public notification of Imperial Oil oilsands wastewater spills has illuminated the need for Alberta to ensure future alarms are sounded quicker.

EDMONTON — Dozens of police cruisers and emergency vehicles lined streets in Edmonton as hearses took the bodies of two slain city officers from a medical examiner's office to a funeral home.