Alberta News

CALGARY — A man convicted of killing a chef apologized Monday and expressed dismay that no one with the victim's family was in court to to hear it.

EDMONTON — Hudson's Bay is shuttering two department stores in Alberta, saying the decision reflects market changes and the company's vision for the future.

EDMONTON — As Alberta's Law Society seeks to defend rules that require members to take a course on Indigenous issues, experts say such measures are common elsewhere in Canada and are well-grounded in legal rationale.

COLD LAKE, Alta. — RCMP say a confrontation between officers and a suspect on a First Nation in northern Alberta has ended with officers firing guns and the suspect dead.

GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. — A member of Alberta's United Conservative Party government caucus who was recently named a parliamentary secretary for civil liberties has announced she won't seek re-election.

CALGARY — James Crawford and Valérie Grenier lead Canada's alpine ski team into the world championship starting Monday in Courchevel and Méribel, France.

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — Beyond the wrestling mats, ice rinks and slopes at the Arctic Winter Games, there's another beloved unofficial sport underway.

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — Akutaq Williamson Bathory will be heading home to Iqaluit with three gold ulus from the Arctic Winter Games, medals named and shaped after traditional Inuit knives.

EDMONTON — The Edmonton Police Homicide Section has taken over a suspicious death investigation in north Edmonton. Officers were called to the Lago Lindo neighbourhood shortly after 5:30 p.m. Friday for a weapons complaint.

EDMONTON — Alberta’s high court is being asked to overturn a review board decision relating to the stabbing deaths of five young people at a Calgary house party on the grounds the former provincial justice minister interfered.