Alberta News

CALGARY — Alberta's police watchdog says it was necessary for RCMP officers to use lethal force against a suspect in the brutal slaying of a woman two years ago. Nadia El-Dib, 22, was found dead behind a Calgary home on March 25, 2018.

CALGARY — A University of Calgary researcher says key cards, lanyards with sensors and wrist devices similar to Fitbits could help make schools and workplaces safer as people adjust to living with the novel coronavirus.

CALGARY — Get Smart and Stevie Knicks are lounging in the penthouse pasture. Blackstone After Party is having sex. Rodeo announcers constantly refer to bucking stock as athletes and point out their performance accounts for half a rider's total score.

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he will call a referendum on pushing Ottawa for a better deal on equalization payments as well as explore the province cutting ties with the RCMP and leaving the Canada Pension Plan.

CALGARY — Enbridge Inc. says 800 employees have voluntarily left the company, allowing it to avoid layoffs as it cuts costs to counter impacts from COVID-19 and lower global oil prices.

JASPER, Alta. — Jasper National Park says visitors must stay in their vehicles when viewing wildlife on roads.

EDMONTON — The University of Alberta has suspended men's and women's hockey, basketball and volleyball for 2020-21 season for what the university says are "financial reasons.

CALGARY — Researchers believe they have cracked the mystery of why fossilized eggs of only a few types of dinosaurs have been found.

EDMONTON — A judge has denied bail to a man accused of killing two Metis hunters northeast of Edmonton. Jacob Sansom, 39, and Maurice Cardinal, 57, were shot and killed on a rural road near Glendon, Alta., in March.

CALGARY — A lawyer for a man who killed a Calgary couple and their young grandson says the trial judge imposed a "vengeful sentence," since his client will be 129 years old before he is eligible for parole.