Alberta News

KANANASKIS, Alta. — A man who was the subject of a search in a popular recreation area along the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains near Calgary has been found dead.

EDMONTON — Jean Claude Munyezamu remembers answering a phone call from a six-year-old boy asking if his non-profit group could provide milk for his newborn sibling.

KANANASKIS, Alta. — Police and searchers are trying to find a man who may have been hiking earlier this week in a popular recreation area along the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains near Calgary.

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has delivered a new version of why she engaged in a controversial phone call with a Calgary street pastor in which they discussed his upcoming criminal case related to COVID-19 public health measures.

OTTAWA — A Canadian woman who returned to Canada from a prison camp in northeastern Syria this week has been released on bail in Edmonton pending a terrorism peace bond application, Mounties in Alberta said Friday.

EDMONTON — A woman convicted in the death of a 19-month-old boy found outside an Edmonton church has had her day parole revoked.

CALGARY — A judge has awarded a Calgary woman more than $40,000 to help cover her court costs after she was granted an interim injunction last month that allows her to continue taking a potent opioid three times a day.

EDMONTON — Premier Danielle Smith says members of the Alberta legislature, including cabinet ministers, are not free to talk to accused people about their criminal court cases but her call to a man facing charges was OK.

OAKVILLE, Ont. — Three men are facing murder charges in the death of a 27-year-old man from Alberta in a shooting last year in Oakville, Ont.

Calgary police have seized more than 90 kilograms of cocaine and arrested two men after a four-month investigation into an alleged drug trafficker.