Snowmobiler flees Banff wolf pack
'We have zero tolerance for hate,' says Edmonton police chief
First, the good news: Hate crimes in Edmonton in 2016 are down over last year.The bad news? Hate crimes are still happening in the city.In 2015, the number of reported incidents in the city hit 138 whereas this year, with just two weeks left in 2016, there have been 108.Even though there has been a drop in reported incidents, it's still too many fo
Edmonton stem cell recipient and US donor still friends 20 years after donation
When Allison Atlas was diagnosed with leukaemia, it set off a chain of events that traveled from her home in Maryland in the early 1990s to Edmonton and Europe and continues today.A call went out for bone marrow donors and Bethesda, Md., resident Ken Wagner stepped forward. An engineer who designs electronics for NASA (that power drill Sandra Bullo
Ezra Levant: If jobless Albertans want to chant at Calgary rally, they can
Conservative provocateur Ezra Levant says he won't tell people attending an anti-carbon tax rally in Calgary on Sunday what they can chant, despite the controversy over cries of "lock her up" aimed at Premier Rachel Notley at last weekend's event in Edmonton.
Donald Trump on Keystone XL: 'You're going to have a decision fairly quickly'
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has suggested he’ll move quickly on Keystone XL after taking office, with the incoming president expected to reverse his predecessor’s ban on the Alberta-to-Texas oil pipeline.
Alberta nurse practitioners authorized to provide medical assistance in dying
Nurse practitioners in Alberta have been given provincial cabinet approval to provide medical assistance in dying.
Investigators probing slayings of Green River killer Gary Ridgway look to Canada for closure
Kathy Taylor admits the Green River killer was a career inspiration.
Mount Norquay employee forced to flee wolf pack on snowmobile
Parks Canada has issued an aggressive wolf warning for Banff National Park after a ski-hill employee was approached by a pack of wolves and had to flee on a snowmobile.
Widow of slain St. Albert Mountie calls for full disclosure at bail hearings
The grieving widow of a murdered RCMP officer made an emotional plea Friday in St. Albert, calling on the federal government to not let partisan politics get in the way of public safety."I think people don't stop to realize that these people are walking the streets every day and this could happen again. And thank God it hasn't, but it could very ea
Police link many of province's 130 ATM heists to just two gangs
Alberta RCMP commanding officer Marianne Ryan credits data-driven policing for linking a series of seemingly random ATM thefts to organized crime.“It’s providing a compass for police to go out and track it down,” said Ryan, adding, “that is a tremendous resource.”More than 130 ATM machine were stolen from 60 communities across the province in the f
Two deaths linked to exposure reported in frozen southern Alberta
The extreme cold locked in over the province is thought to have claimed the lives of two people in rural Alberta.