Alberta News

CALGARY — Texas-based Wilks Brothers LLC says it is making formal the $26.1-million takeover bid for Calfrac Well Services Ltd. it proposed last week, while continuing to urge shareholders to reject a management reorganization plan.

EDMONTON — Even though the Tampa Bay Lightning seem to possess some overtime magic in the playoffs, this was not the the time for more hockey.

EDMONTON — Alberta has no plans to follow its western neighbour in closing or constraining businesses, despite a recent surge in COVID-19 infections.

EDMONTON — When the Tampa Bay Lightning and New York Islanders left the familiar confines of the NHL's Toronto bubble last weekend, they masked up to board physically distanced buses and then flew west across Canada on separate charter flights.

ENOCH, Alta. — Six Alberta First Nations are investing $93 million for an equity stake in a new natural gas power plant.

CALGARY — A Calgary man who killed his daughter and seriously injured her best friend in a drunk-driving crash has been sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison.

CALGARY — Enbridge Inc. says it will restart the east segment of Line 5 in the Straits of Mackinac after winning approval from the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration and the Michigan Circuit Court.

DRAYTON VALLEY, Alta. — A 25-year-old man is in hospital with a gunshot wound to the chest after a shooting in central Alberta. Mounties responded at 8:42 a.m.

RED DEER, Alta. — A man accused of killing a family doctor at a medical clinic in central Alberta made a second bizarre court appearance Wednesday as he was ordered to undergo a psychiatric exam.

EDMONTON — The Alberta government says it will spend $20 million on end-of-life care. Health Minister Tyler Shandro says the money is a first step in improving access to palliative care for patients and their families.