Alberta News

EDMONTON — Alberta is reviving its so-called turn-off-the taps legislation, but with a few changes.

CANMORE, Alta. — Town council in a popular Alberta mountain community has rejected a second proposed development project that raised concerns about wildlife, affordable housing and taxes.

EDMONTON — Wayne Gretzky says he is stepping down as vice-chairman of the Edmonton Oilers. Gretzky said in a statement on Twitter on Tuesday he is making the decision, "given the pandemic and other life changes.

CALGARY — The Canada Energy Regulator says Canadian crude-by-rail exports bounced back in March due to better oil production amid limited export pipeline capacity for heavy oil.

EDMONTON — Aurora Cannabis Inc. says it has moved its stock exchange listing to the Nasdaq Global Select Market from the New York Stock Exchange today.

CALGARY — A decade-old corruption case involving a Canadian junior oil company that bribed officials in Chad to try to gain access to oil plays in the north-central African nation is making news again. The U.S.

RED DEER, Alta. — Alberta's police watchdog is investigating a fatal shooting involving RCMP officers in Red Deer. Mounties were responding to multiple driving complaints at around 9 p.m.

CALGARY — Marie-Philip Poulin was finally able to put her prodigious talent with the puck to use in a real game.

EDMONTON — Alberta's advanced education minister has sent a letter to four of the province's universities asking them to pause their pursuit of new or renewed partnerships with organizations linked with China or the Chinese Communist Party.

BOSTON (AP) — Investigators were preparing to seek an arrest warrant for a defrocked Roman Catholic priest long considered a suspect in the 1972 killing of a western Massachusetts altar boy shortly before his death last week, a prosecutor said Monday