Alberta News

EDMONTON — Alberta's auditor general has been granted his request for nearly $1 million in extra funding to continue digging into allegations of corruption in private health-care contracts.

EDMONTON — Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi has won a seat in the legislature after a year of sitting on the sidelines.

A survivor of a rockfall last week in Banff National Park is remembering his 33-year-old roommate, who didn't make it out alive from under the rubble, as a kind and generous friend. Khaled Elgamal says Hamza Benhilal of Surrey, B.C.

EDMONTON — An Edmonton woman has been charged with assaulting five children at a daycare east of the city. RCMP say officers were called earlier this year about the alleged assaults at the Emerald Park Daycare in Sherwood Park.

TORONTO — Blame the heat dome hanging over Ontario and Quebec for some of the strange weather hitting other parts of the country.

EDMONTON — Ariana Zapata's favourite subject in school is social studies. For the 13-year-old in Edmonton, this means lessons on historical societies, colonialism, how worldviews are developed and so on.

CALGARY — It took the Ottawa Redblacks until deep into the fourth quarter against the Calgary Stampeders to score the game's only touchdown.

WETASKIWIN — A murder charge has been laid in the disappearance of an Alberta woman who was last seen close to six years ago.

VERMILION — A pilot and passenger have died in a plane crash near an airport in central Alberta. RCMP say they were dispatched to the crash shortly after noon on Saturday, and the plane was located approximately 1.

Scientist Daniel Shugar says images of the aftermath of Thursday's deadly rockslide in Banff National Park provide evidence of its cause — water flowing through the interior of the mountain.