Alberta News

CALGARY — Worries over escalating tensions in the Middle East and their potential to cause oil price disruptions hung over day one of a major energy sector conference in Calgary.

WANDERING RIVER, Alta. — Mounties in northeastern Alberta say they used a helicopter to rescue a stranded trapper on the weekend. They say they got a report Sunday that the hunter's all-terrain vehicle overturned and became stuck.

CALGARY — The Calgary Real Estate Board says September home sales tumbled 17.6 per cent from last year's record levels to 2,003, but remained around 16 per cent higher than long-term trends for the month.

CALGARY — TC Energy Corp. has completed its spinoff of South Bow Corp., its crude oil pipelines business, as an independent company.

The minimum wage in four provinces is going up today. The rate in Ontario is rising by 65 cents to $17.20 an hour, an increase tied to inflation.

CALGARY — Calgary Flames rookie Samuel Honzek continued his scoring tear on Monday with a brilliant short-handed effort.

COCHRANE, Alta. — An explosion at an energy site northwest of Calgary has injured five workers, and RCMP say the resulting fire could burn for days. Cpl.

CORONATION, Alta. — Some residents of a southern Alberta town are being evacuated due to a potential gas leak. The leak affects the town of Coronation, about 174 kilometres east of Red Deer. RCMP say at ATCO has been dispatched to the scene.

EDMONTON — It may have been a victory, but the Edmonton Oilers feel they are still very much a work in progress.

CALGARY — The chief of a southern Alberta First Nation is demanding a thorough, transparent investigation into the death of an Indigenous man in police custody. Blood Tribe Chief Roy Fox says the death of Jon Wells on Sept.