Alberta News

EDMONTON — Alberta will proceed in its request for a judicial review of the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act against trucker convoy protests, Premier Jason Kenney said Wednesday.

EDMONTON — The president of the Alberta Teachers' Association says he is cautiously optimistic after seeing COVID-19 cases go down in classrooms a little more than a week after the province lifted a mask mandate in schools.

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says the provincial budget will include an unprecedented blitz of health-care spending powered by a roaring, re-energized economy. Kenney announced $1.

CALGARY — Oil prices are rapidly heading toward US$100 a barrel, but analysts say the chances of crude smashing that threshold greatly depends on what happens next in Ukraine.

CALGARY — Police have charged a Calgary man who they say swindled money from dozens of people and romanced several women to further the con. Bryan Christopher Syryda, who is 36, faces more than a dozen fraud and theft-related charges.

CALGARY — A new organization aims to spur Canadian development of sustainable aviation fuel, a technology advocates say is the airline industry's best shot at reducing its greenhouse gas emissions.

Calgary police are investigating after a man was found dead in a downtown apartment. Police say they were called to an apartment building around 9:40 p.m. Tuesday and found a man believed to be in his mid-20s dead inside one of the units.

CALGARY — A criminal anthropologist suggests looking to the West to find the heart of protests and blockades that gripped the nation for more than a month.

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CALGARY — Alberta's police watchdog says a man killed by Calgary officers was Tasered and hit with less-lethal projectiles from a launcher before two officers shot and killed him.