Beyond Local

CALGARY — A prosecutor has asked a judge to impose an adult sentence of 11 to 13 years on a young offender found guilty of manslaughter in the hit-and-run death of a Calgary police officer. 

CALGARY — The Alberta government says it will create a team of sheriffs to track down and arrest offenders accused or convicted of serious crimes.

CALGARY — A deal has been reached to replace Calgary's aging Saddledome with a new event centre and make improvements to the surrounding area east of downtown.

OTTAWA — Negotiations between the government and the largest federal public-sector union seemed to reach a stalemate Wednesday as workers remained on strike for the eighth straight day.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana’s House speaker canceled a Tuesday floor session a day after seven protesters were arrested for disrupting proceedings with demands that Rep. Zooey Zephyr, a transgender Democrat silenced by lawmakers for comments against a bill to ban gender-affirming medical care, be allowed to speak.

OTTAWA — Directors from past Liberal and Conservative campaigns told a House of Commons committee Tuesday that concerns raised by national security officials would not necessarily be reason enough for them to drop a candidate from their rosters.

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A court in Russia convicted a former police officer of publicly spreading false information about the country's military for criticizing the war in Ukraine to his friends over the phone.

CLIVE, Iowa (AP) — Many loyal Republicans in the state that kicks off the presidential nominating season are searching for a White House hopeful other than Donald Trump . There's less consensus on what that alternative should look like.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Twitter accounts operated by authoritarian governments in Russia, China and Iran are benefiting from recent changes at the social media company, researchers said Monday, making it easier for them to attract new followers and broadcast propaganda and disinformation to a larger audience.

PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona Uber driver involved in the first death connected to a fully autonomous vehicle will be tried in June on a negligent homicide charge.