Alberta News

CALGARY — A member of Calgary's South Sudanese community says 10 victims of a home explosion were blown into the air before falling into a fiery basement below.

EDMONTON — The Transportation Safety Board has released its investigation into a fatal plane crash last September southeast of Edmonton. The board says a single-person crop duster plane nosedived into a rural area near the village of Donalda on Sept.

EDMONTON — Alberta's energy regulator has defended its finding that the province's largest recorded earthquake was caused by oilpatch activity, saying the pattern of temblors since last fall clearly points to a water disposal well even though there's

CALGARY — The Calgary Flames have signed Swedish forward William Stromgren to a three-year, entry-level contract that will start next season. The Flames drafted Stromgren in the second round (45th) in the 2021 NHL entry draft.

Calgary police have identified a 15-year-old girl who was fatally shot this week as investigators try to determine whether she was the intended target or if it was a case of mistaken identity.

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, in a leaked cellphone call, commiserated with a COVID-19 protester about his trial while divulging to him there was an internal dispute over how Crown prosecutors were handling COVID-19 cases.

EDMONTON — A senior officer says more people are interested in joining the Edmonton Police Service after two constables were killed responding to a call on March 16.

EDMONTON — The Edmonton Elks released veteran American running back James Wilder Jr. on Wednesday. The six-foot-three, 232-pound Wilder appeared in 15 games over two seasons with Edmonton. He ran for 894 yards on 170 carries (5.

CALGARY — After six months under Russian occupation, Dmytro Syrman and his family decided to flee Ukraine for a safer life abroad and are now in Calgary. The family lived in Dniprorudne, a mining city of 17,000 in southern Ukraine.

CALGARY — A question mark continues to hang over the future of carbon capture and storage projects in Canada, in spite of a pledge in Tuesday's federal budget to deliver more investment certainty for major emissions-reducing projects.