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NDP government boosts legal aid, but lawyers say it's not enough
The NDP government gave Legal Aid Alberta a funding boost of $2.5 million in the 2016 budget, which brings the legal aid budget up to $68.5 million, but defence lawyers worry it’s far from enough....
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Teenager gets himself to safety after his parents' car is stolen with him in it
Police were expecting a teenage hostage when they stopped a stolen vehicle and arrested the guy behind the wheel, but it turned out the kid rescued himself. They were told the kid was in there when the...
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Worker injured at northeast Calgary construction site
Struck by a trackhoe bucket, a worker in northeast Calgary lay injured at the bottom of a construction trench. Emergency crews scrambled to stabilize the walls of the trench to go down and get the...
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Fortney: Mother faces cross examination in death of sick son
“No one would want a different outcome more than my husband and I … Do I wish I had taken him to a doctor? Absolutely.” Nearing the end of a long day on the witness stand Friday, Collet Stephan called...
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Calgary police officer charged with breaking into estranged wife's home
Domestic troubles ended in criminal charges for a Calgary police officer who allegedly broke into his estranged wife’s home and tried to leave with a truck full of stuff. The incident happened...
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Fashion and Technology Fuse in Fab Fashion Show
Your faithful social scribe has a confession to make. I am far from technologically savvy. Whenever my iPhone or laptop act up, the first call I make is to my 8-year old great niece. And Siri? What’s...
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U of C, students' union mediation talks break down over Mac Hall ownership
Three months of mediation between the University of Calgary and the students’ union over ownership and management of MacEwan Hall have led nowhere near a resolution. Both parties have been wrestling...
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Charges pending after vehicle speeds toward officers at a checkstop
Two people are facing charges after a vehicle sped toward and nearly struck officers at a checkstop south of Calgary early Saturday Mounties in High River tried to stop the vehicle around 12:30 a.m.,...
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Calgary Courts Centre open to public for Law Day
Throngs of onlookers watched as Cinderella, Batman and the minions from the movie Despicable Me stood trial Saturday at the Calgary Courts Centre. The mock trials were all part of the 34th annual...
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City councillors speaking up as worry mounts over soaring transitway costs
With worry mounting over the soaring cost of the southwest transitway project, Calgary Coun. Diane Colley-Urquhart says she’ll speak up for her constituents at city hall. “I’m taking it forward with...
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Pulling over vehicles proves dangerous for RCMP officers in two incidents...
RCMP officers around Calgary were placed in peril pulling over vehicles early Saturday morning. Suddenly hitting the gas during a police traffic stop, the driver of a pickup truck dragged an officer...
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Calgary man charged after woman, girls report sexual assault in hotel pool
A Calgary man is facing sex-assault charges after a woman and two girls said they were groped in a Lethbridge swimming pool. Police were called to a south Lethbridge hotel Saturday after receiving a...
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Lethbridge man facing charges after police seize suspected explosive devices...
Lethbridge police arrested a 46-year-old man Friday evening after weapons, ammunition and suspected explosive devices were found in a home in the north side of the city. According to police, officers...
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Hundreds of grads line up for dresses on a budget
An estimated 250 graduating students lined up at a northeast mall Sunday to say ‘Yes’ to a prom dress, at a steep discount. Marlborough Mall collected hundreds of donated ball gowns, 1980s-style...
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On 100th anniversary of women's right to vote in Alberta, challenges remain
Tuesday is the 100th anniversary of women getting the right to vote in Alberta. Though Alberta was the second province that gave women the right to vote after Manitoba, Alberta’s provincial election in...
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'We stand for you': Southern Albertans gather in support of Attawapiskat
In his poem prompted by a suicide crisis on a northern Ontario First Nation, a 13-year-old Calgary boy speaks directly to those feeling desperate and hopeless. “I know you think things won’t get any...
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Ottawa to release final numbers after GIS error shortchanged low-income seniors
About 86,000 low-income Canadians — including 16,000 from Alberta — were forced to wait years in some cases for thousands of dollars of income-support payments as a result of a massive error by Service...
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Candidates for Tory president dismiss 'unite-the-right' talk
The two candidates running to become president of the Progressive Conservative party aren’t interested in talk of uniting the political right in Alberta, dismissing the prospects of a merger with the...
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Lack of hike in AISH payments in Alberta budget concerns advocates for the...
The absence of a hike in supports for those with developmental disabilities in Thursday’s budget is ringing alarm bells among some social policy advocates. While the budget did advance social spending...
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'They can hear that they’re cared for': Calgary choir will sing to people...
Agnieszka Wolska sat at the bedside of a dying man and sang. As the voice of Wolska and three others filled the quiet hospital room, the man’s breathing slowed, his fidgeting stopped and tears rolled...
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