Alberta News

The number of Alberta wildfire evacuees dropped Wednesday, but thousands remain out of their homes as firefighters braced for hotter, drier conditions in the coming days.

EDMONTON — Police say autopsies are complete in the deaths of a mother and child who were killed outside of a school in Edmonton.

Western Canada is bracing for an unseasonable and extreme heat wave and dry spell that will raise the risk of wildfires in Alberta and British Columbia over the coming days.

EDMONTON — Police say a man has been arrested at the Alberta legislature after a gun was allegedly pointed at some construction workers.

CALGARY — Alberta's two main political parties offered competing visions Wednesday for women's shelters and sexual assault counselling centres as the second week of Alberta's election campaign continued. Voters go to the polls on May 29.

BANFF, Alta. — Calgary police say their homicide unit is working with RCMP after human remains were discovered in Banff National Park.

CALGARY — Alberta's NDP says a video showing United Conservative Party Leader Danielle Smith proposing to sell off hospitals to private operators is highly problematic.

CALGARY — A young man convicted of manslaughter in the hit-and-run death of a Calgary police officer will face an adult sentence, an Alberta judge ruled Wednesday. Sgt.

CALGARY — The United Conservative Party is promising to increase support for women's shelters and sexual assault counselling centres if re-elected on May 29.

CALGARY — Crescent Point Energy Corp. says it has restored approximately 75 per cent of the production it had temporarily halted as a result of the wildfires in Alberta.