Alberta News

CALGARY — Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek says the city can no longer afford its long-sought Green Line light rail transit project after the Alberta government announced it's pulling funding from the plan in its current form.

PEACE RIVER, Alta. — Mounties say two men are dead after a small plane crashed at an airport in a northwestern Alberta. The plane went down Tuesday on the grounds of the Peace River Airport.

EDMONTON — The Alberta government says it has signed a new five-year governance agreement with the province's legal aid lawyers.

EDMONTON — Audric Moses has seen a few late-summer wasp outbreaks around his Edmonton home over the past seven years, but nothing like what he saw last week. "My wife said, 'Hey, come on out here. You need to see this,'" he said.

PEACE RIVER, Alta. — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada will deploy a team to probe an aircraft accident that happened Tuesday afternoon at an airport in northern Alberta.

EDMONTON — Alberta Health Minister Adriana LaGrange says a plan to offload underperforming hospitals from Alberta Health Services to third-party operators is still up for discussion.

EDMONTON — Canadian Western Bank says shareholders have overwhelmingly voted in favour of a sale of the company to National Bank of Canada. Edmonton-based CWB says the vote at the special meeting Tuesday was 99.

CALGARY — City officials say they have found a way to ease some of the strain on Calgary's water system while a major pipe is again shut down for repairs.

WETASKIWIN, Alta. — A band councillor with an Alberta First Nation is calling on two RCMP officers to resign after the shooting death of a 15-year-old boy.

Leon Draisaitl had a hard time picturing himself playing in the NHL wearing anything but an Edmonton Oilers jersey, and the result of that is a long-term commitment to the organization's pursuit of the Stanley Cup as the highest-paid player in hockey