Alberta News

CALGARY — A University of Calgary scientist is hoping to determine whether Mars was ever capable of supporting life.

Alberta's advanced education minister has extended a deadline for a distance learning university to move more staff to the small town where it is headquartered.

EDMONTON — Alberta Health Services says an Edmonton-area hospital is to temporarily close its obstetrics unit for the second time in less than a month due to a lack of specialists.

EDMONTON — An Alberta regulatory body has turned down an application to expand a feedlot near a popular recreational lake, saying the location wasn't appropriate and would damage the local community.

CALGARY — A Calgary man who deliberately drove over his wife with a van during an argument and left her to die alone on a snow-covered street will not be eligible for parole until he has served 16 years of his life sentence, an Alberta judge ruled We

CALGARY — Imperial Oil Ltd. says it and ExxonMobil Canada have closed the $1.9-billion sale of their oil and gas-producing assets in the Montney and Duvernay areas to Whitecap Resources Inc.

EDMONTON — Alberta’s finance minister says the government is going to use this year’s projected windfall budget surplus to pay down debt and put some cash in its piggy bank. Jason Nixon says the plan is to make a $13.

CALGARY — Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says she loves her home province of Alberta and the world needs to know it's a welcoming place.

EDMONTON — Danielle Smith, the perceived front-runner candidate in the race to replace Jason Kenney as Alberta’s United Conservative Party leader and premier, faced renewed attacks on multiple fronts Tuesday in the campaign’s final debate.

CANMORE, Alta. — RCMP say a 25-year-old man from Saskatchewan has died after potentially being electrocuted in a hot tub in southern Alberta. Police, fire and emergency medical services were dispatched to the call in Canmore, Alta.