Alberta News

HALIFAX — One large donair costume to go, please. The Alberta government is selling a donair costume as a part of its surplus auction.

EAST PRAIRIE METIS SETTLEMENT, Alberta (AP) — Carrol Johnston counted her blessings as she stood on the barren site where her home was destroyed by a fast-moving wildfire that forced her to flee her northern Alberta community two months ago.

CALGARY — Nearly four months after a house explosion sent 10 members of Calgary's South Sudanese community to hospital, many of the victims are still struggling. But they're preparing to participate in a prayer of thanks for their survival on Aug.

EDMONTON — Alberta's new health minister has been given the go-ahead to decentralize the entire health-care delivery system — 15 years after the province completed a multistage, multiyear process to centralize it.

CALGARY — The rising cost of living in Canada that has dominated the headlines over the past year is, in many ways, a story about oil.

CALGARY — One of the best goaltenders in Calgary Flames' history will have his number retired by the club. Miikka Kiprusoff's number 34 will be hoisted to the Scotiabank Saddledome rafters March 2 when Calgary is at home to the Pittsburgh Penguins.

EDMONTON — As Alberta enters the fourth year of debate over whether to ditch the Canada Pension Plan, the Opposition NDP says Premier Danielle Smith’s government is dragging its feet in order to sway the outcome.

EDMONTON — A 31-year-old man and a 28-year-old woman face charges after a series of shootings in Edmonton over the weekend that police say were random.

CALGARY — PrairieSky Royalty Ltd. says its net earnings for the second quarter were $48 million, down from $110.1 million a year earlier. The Calgary-based company says it saw record quarterly average oil royalty production of 12,607 barrels per day.

CALGARY — Canadian beef and pork farmers frustrated by an ongoing dispute with Britain over meat exports are calling on members of Parliament to vote against the U.K.'s membership in a major Asia-Pacific trade group.