Alberta News

WILLINGDON, ALTA. — Alberta RCMP say a five-year-old child is dead after a car collided with a semi-truck. Mounties say the crash happened Monday afternoon near the hamlet of Willingdon about 125 kilometres northeast of Edmonton.

EDMONTON — The Alberta Energy Regulator says it's looking for an investigator to dig into releases of oilsands tailings and tailings-contaminated water that weren't made public for nine months.

CALGARY — Rima Rifai thought her furnace had exploded Monday when the house across the street burst into a ball of fire, sending 10 people to hospital with serious injuries.

CALGARY — Police say it's still not clear whether the shooting death of a 15-year-old girl in Calgary's northeast was targeted. Officers responded to reports of a shooting in an alley in the Martindale neighbourhood early Tuesday morning.

Calgary-based pot retailer SNDL Inc. says it is buying four Dutch Love cannabis stores from Lightbox Enterprises Ltd. SNDL says it is paying $7.8 million for three stores in B.C.

CALGARY — Crescent Point Energy Corp. has reached a deal to buy Spartan Delta Corp.'s Montney oilfield assets in Alberta for $1.

CALGARY — At least 10 people were seriously injured Monday after an explosion destroyed one home,damaged several others and left part of the roof from the house that blew up in a yard across the street.

EDMONTON — Two police officers killed in the line of duty were honoured Monday at a regimental funeral with tears and tales of off-key crooning, birdies and beers, laughs and contagious joy.

CALGARY — The Canada Infrastructure Bank is making its first investment in low-carbon fuels, committing $277 million to a biofuels facility under construction in Varennes, Que.

When Kate Beaton migrated west to work in Alberta's oilsands, she didn't know what to expect — other than a job that would allow her to pay down her student loans.