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Released high-risk offender removes monitoring bracelet, eludes police
Calgary police are looking for a convicted killer who removed a court-ordered tracking device before a daily curfew check with authorities. Kevin Ronald Brooks, 28, was released from prison in June,...
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Province announces $187 million in transit funding for Calgary, outlying...
The provincial government’s major transit funding announcement Friday will fundamentally transform how Calgarians move across the city, says Mayor Naheed Nenshi. Speaking to reporters in Calgary,...
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B.C. asks for tougher regulations after drones hamper wildfire fights
VANCOUVER — British Columbia wants Ottawa to get tough on drones after unmanned aerial vehicles grounded aircraft fighting wildfires this summer. The province has asked Transport Canada to strengthen...
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NDP reflects after Calgary-Foothills byelection loss
Despite losing the Calgary-Foothills byelection to the opposition Wildrose, the NDP government has no plans to significantly change course. Despite losing the Calgary-Foothills byelection to the...
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Nenshi says polluter should pay for creosote cleanup in West Village
The provincial and federal governments bear some responsibility in remediating contaminated land in the city’s West Village where the owners of the Calgary Flames and Stampeders hope to build an...
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Backcountry hut in Yoho National Park to open in early 2016
They’ve worked through rain, sleet, snow, and smoke, but a new backcountry hut in Yoho National Park will be ready for this winter. In the past six weeks, volunteers with the Alpine Club of Canada have...
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Judge reserves decision on challenge of Montana's execution methods
CALGARY — A judge has reserved his decision on a constitutional challenge of Montana’s execution methods that is likely to have an impact on a Canadian waiting on death row in that state. “The hearing...
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Alberta government bans logging, mining, and oil and gas expansion in Castle...
CROWSNEST PASS — The province is protecting the entire Castle area in southern Alberta as two parks, banning forestry and mining and turning its focus to recreation and tourism in the area. Shannon...
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'Like spitting on a fire' : Calgarians call on federal government to help...
Huzoor and Chinoor Azizi spent their early years living in a refugee camp in Ramadi, Iraq. Their older brother was born in a war zone amidst bombings, and their younger brother died when he was just a...
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Economic withholding goes under the microscope after spring power price spike
Alberta Energy Minister Marg McCuaig-Boyd has vowed to look into the practice of “economic withholding” after one power producer held back available electricity to dramatically drive up prices this...
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The making of a canine cop
The Calgary Police Service currently counts 22 dogs among its members, each with their specialties: there are the biters and trackers; there are dogs that sniff out explosives; and, there is one...
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Lethbridge police charge man in homicide case
Police in Lethbridge have arrested a man in connection with the southern Alberta city’s latest homicide and charged him with manslaughter. Gifford George Good Dagger, 47, died in hospital Tuesday, a...
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Gallery: The Calgary Herald Pictures of the Week
A weekly collection of images taken or first published by the Calgary Herald staff in the past seven days ending September 4. Gallery: The Calgary Herald Pictures of the WeekThe weekly collection of...
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Calgarians deal with snow on a chilly Labour Day weekend
There’s nothing like a bit of summer snow to signal the change in seasons. Some Calgarians woke up Sunday to a sprinkling of the unseasonable white stuff after rain dampened the city for much of...
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Opposition parties weigh in on NDP's plan to protect the Castle wilderness
Alberta’s plan to fully protect the Castle wilderness area in southwestern Alberta is being both panned and praised by opposition parties. The Notley government announced Friday that it would create...
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'It’s just the next team in line' : Stamps saddle up for Labour Day Classic
Eleven’s a good number if you’re trying to make up a soccer side or you’re Danny Ocean hatching a plan to rob five Vegas casinos on one night. Not so much if you’re an Edmonton Eskimo. “Actually,’’...
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'We can actually be ourselves': Tens of thousands mark city's 25th Pride Parade
Twenty-five years ago, Joey Sayer marched alongside a couple hundred Calgarians fighting for gay rights, for the chance to openly follow their hearts. Many of them wore masks to conceal their...
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Nineteen-year-old who wasn't wearing seatbelt dies after vehicle rolls
A 19-year-old man is dead after a pickup truck rolled west of Pincher Creek in southern Alberta. Emergency crews were called to Ohagen Road near Castle Falls around 5 p.m. Sunday for reports of a...
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RCMP charge mom and daughter with animal cruelty
A mother and daughter already charged with animal cruelty in B.C. are facing fresh charges after RCMP discovered dozens of animals in distress on a rural property near Cereal, A.B. Officers arrested...
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Woman, three horses dead after apparent crash at Tsuu T'ina
A woman is dead after she was ejected from her vehicle in a crash Monday morning at Tsuu T’ina Nation. Paramedics responded to the scene at Six Mile Coulee Road on the reserve near southwest Calgary...
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