Alberta News

JASPER, ALTA. — Every summer for 61 years, tourists have piled onto Jasper’s SkyTram to see the boomerang-shaped town nestled inside the sprawling Rocky Mountains. It'll happen again this summer, but the view will be different.

CALGARY — Calgary police say their homicide unit is investigating after a woman was found dead in a residential neighbourhood in southeast Calgary Friday night. Police say at around 9 p.m.

CALGARY — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she doesn't want to be "exuberant about dodging the bullet" with U.S.

OTTAWA — The national unemployment rate was 6.7 per cent in March. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities.

CALGARY — Blake Coleman scored twice and rookie goaltender Dustin Wolf made 26 stops to lead the Calgary Flames to a 4-1 NHL victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Thursday night.

LA LIBERTAD — Canadian teenage surfer Erin Brooks advanced to the round of 16 at the Surf City El Salvador Pro on Thursday.

A new version of a government-commissioned report about Alberta's inactive oil wells and what to do about them now says the province should manage a new insurance fund, rather than backstop it with taxpayer funding.

EDMONTON — Alberta's attorney general and justice minister has asked for a judicial review after his federal counterpart ordered a new trial for a man convicted of killing an Edmonton woman almost four decades ago.

EDMONTON — Alberta's nurses union has signed a four-year contract with the province after months of bargaining and mediation.

Alberta's utilities minister says that, contrary to a new report, the province's electricity grid operator doesn't discriminate against U.S. power generators. The Office of the U.S.