Tories vow to forge ahead with a renewed party
RED DEER — After living through “one of the worst years” in party history, Alberta Tories have committed to rebuild the party, even as it faces significant financial challenges. With about 1,000...
View ArticleBraid: From the fire, a glimpse of the PCs as they used to be
RED DEER — Just over a year ago, Don Scott was Alberta’s advanced education minister, a respected and rising power in the PC government of Premier Jim Prentice. Today he’s another Fort McMurray refugee...
View ArticleSaskatoon man dies in plane crash near Sylvan Lake
A 70-year-old man died after a single engine, two-seat airplane crashed about 13 km west of Sylvan Lake Saturday afternoon. Emergency responders were dispatched to a report of a plane crash in a rural...
View ArticleAlberta officials give update on Fort McMurray wildfire
Officials say the Fort McMurray wildfire grew to 161,000 hectares as of 10:30 a.m. Sunday, spreading much slower than officials had feared. Watch Premier Rachel Notley and other Alberta officials in...
View ArticleSport Chek Mother's Day Walk, Run and Rise raises over $200,000 for charity
Vivian Sykes weighed just four pounds when she first entered the world, the result of a birth that was 11 weeks early. She spent over three months in the neonatal intensive care unit before her mother,...
View ArticleCalgary woman's homegrown Fort Mac relief effort seeks evacuees
Sierra Rose is begging for more of Fort McMurray’s dispossessed to show up at her door. After creating a Facebook page last Friday to collect donations for evacuees named Calgary Welcomes Fort Mac, her...
View ArticlePhoto gallery: A look at Fort McMurray after the wildfire
Photos: The wildfire aftermath in Fort McMurrayThese images were taken during a media tour of Fort McMurray Monday. A Fort McMurray welcome sign as media enter the city for a bus tour after a wildfire...
View ArticleInvestigators hope autopsies provide answers in deaths of five in Falconridge...
Police and fire crews are working to determine if the deaths of five people who were found following one of the deadliest fires in Calgary history are suspicious. The bodies of five men were recovered...
View ArticleCalgary opens fourth evacuation centre for displaced Fort McMurray residents
Calgary has opened a fourth emergency evacuation centre for displaced Fort McMurray residents after a massive wildfire forced them from their homes last week, Mayor Naheed Nenshi said Monday. The city...
View ArticleWhat Fort McMurray residents in Calgary need to know
Here’s key information that residents affected by the Fort McMurray evacuations need to know. For more details, visit the Alberta government’s emergency update page and the City of Calgary. Status of...
View ArticleCourt hears from suspect during Strasser-Hird death trial
A suspect in the slaying of Calgary man Lukas Strasser-Hird said he stabbed an individual near a Beltline-area bar, a witness said Monday. Joseph Nguyen said he was walking behind Franz Cabrera when...
View ArticleForested communities trying to protect against wildfires
CANMORE — Tucked in the Rockies, the mountain towns of Banff and Canmore are built in a long, narrow valley surrounded by forests of Lodgepole pine, Douglas fir and spruce trees along steep slopes. The...
View ArticleCalgary judge encourages convicted youth killer to continue with addictions...
One business day after praising a convicted killer for completing her sentence for murdering her family, a Calgary judge was at it again Monday — congratulating another youth killer for his...
View ArticleMoody's warns of Alberta's financial fallout from wildfires
The mammoth northern Alberta wildfire will be “economically devastating” but the province should see a rebound when rebuilding begins, according to a new report from Moody’s. The paper issued by the...
View ArticleEvacuated Fort McMurray artist fights fire with paint brush
After fleeing Fort McMurray’s inferno, an artist is using an iconic symbol of the trauma to help douse the fire’s impact. Russell Thomas’ acrylic depiction of the angst-ridden face of Fort McMurray...
View ArticleVideo: Safer roads with inspections
The Calgary Police Service Truck Unit and the Alberta Commercial Vehicle Enforcement officers are conducing commercial vehicle checkstops over the next few days with the goal to get unsafe commercial...
View ArticleUpdate: Eight men charged in connection with 2015 shootings linked to...
Investigations into two homicides in 2015 got the ball rolling on a large-scale police operation that resulted in charges against eight men – some of them accused of multiple murder attempts – in...
View ArticleCalgary firefighters describe desperate battle to save vital Fort McMurray...
When Calgary firefighter Capt. Danny Freeman’s pumper truck got stuck while defending Fort McMurray’s airport, he feared they’d been blown up. Amid a gruelling 20-hour shift, Freeman and his colleagues...
View ArticleCity, province vow to clean up needle-strewn 'heroin island'
The Bow River expanse dubbed “heroin island” after hundreds of used needles were found metres from shore may soon be just an unpleasant memory for frustrated neighbours. Three weeks after Calgary mom...
View ArticleFortney: One week later, Fort McMurray evacuees strive for normalcy in their...
They’ve taken walks in the park and enjoyed lunches at a nearby sandwich shop. The highlight of Kathlyn Tionsay’s week so far, though, is going to a shopping mall with her nine-year-old daughter,...
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