Alberta News

BANFF — Looking out over a budding meadow with blackened tree stumps on the edge of Banff National Park, Cliff White points to a dark thicket of trees where the empty plot ends.

EDSON — Canadian National Railway says it's investigating after two trains appear to have "sideswiped" each other in northern Alberta.

AIRDRIE — Ryan Straschnitzki's life has been an open book since he was seriously injured in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash, and his story is soon to be shown on TV. The 26-year-old from Airdrie, Alta.

SPOKANE — Hunter St. Martin scored a goal and an assist as the Medicine Hat Tigers doubled the Spokane Chiefs 4-2 on Friday to win the Western Hockey League championship.

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's former chief of staff is suing the fired CEO of the province's front-line health agency and the newspaper that first reported allegations of corruption in multimillion-dollar health contracts.

EDMONTON — A judge sentenced an Edmonton police officer to six months jail Friday for making sexual advances toward eight vulnerable women he met on the job. Const.

CALGARY — A Crown prosecutor is calling for a Calgary couple who killed their badly burned and emaciated toddler to be sentenced to eight years in prison.

CALGARY — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced Friday an overhaul of several government ministries, creating two new health services portfolios and replacing her Indigenous relations minister.

CALGARY — The mayor of Crowsnest Pass in southwestern Alberta says the Alberta Energy Regulator's approval of a controversial coal exploration project on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains is long overdue. "I think they finally woke up.

CALGARY — The executive chairman of Strathcona Resources Ltd. says his company aims to join two complementary oilsands players with its unsolicited takeover bid for MEG Energy Corp., but one analyst calls the $5.