Alberta News

CALGARY — A sheriff has testified that he found the name of a key witness in a trial involving a popular chef's death carved on a cell wall.

OTTAWA — An Alberta First Nation fighting what it calls overdevelopment of its traditional territory has been given a second chance to convince the courts that governments should advance money for its legal bills so it can spend the revenues it has o

CALGARY — Alberta's Opposition leader is ridiculing accusations from the governing United Conservatives that she and the UCP's newest member of the legislature are in cahoots.

Alberta recorded its deadliest year on record for drug overdoses with more than 1,700 deaths in 2021. The province released data late Thursday showing 176 people died in both November and December, bringing the yearly total to 1,758.

CALGARY — WestJet Airlines Ltd. is preparing for an "immediate and dramatic" uptick in demand in the wake of the government of Canada's decision to remove pre-entry COVID-19 testing requirements for vaccinated travellers.

EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers finally showed what they could look like playing a complete game.

EDMONTON — Alberta’s newest United Conservative Party member of the legislature returned to the house Thursday to applause but also to an accusation that he is colluding with the Opposition NDP.

GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. — RCMP say a man is in custody after a police uniform and equipment were stolen from a cruiser in northern Alberta.

EDMONTON — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says weather conditions were poor when a plane crashed in northern Alberta last summer, killing the pilot.

A father's hope turned to pain in less than 24 hours after his son entered a residential drug treatment facility and fatally overdosed. "Our son died in a place that was supposed to be safe," Ray Corbiere told The Canadian Press.