Alberta News

SIKSIKA FIRST NATION, ALBERTA — Police are investigating a fire at a Roman Catholic church in an Indigenous community east of Calgary. RCMP say officers were called to the Siksika First Nation Catholic Church shortly after midnight.

SADDLE LAKE, Alta. — RCMP in central Alberta say a 14-year-old has been charged in the shooting of a 12-year-old boy. Mounties say it appears the shooting on Friday at Saddle Lake Cree Nation was targeted.

CALGARY — An Alberta judge has found a Calgary pastor, his brother and a cafe owner guilty of contempt for deliberately violating COVID-19 health orders.

EDMONTON — The board of trustees of Edmonton Catholic Schools has voted unanimously to rename an elementary school bearing the name of a bishop who helped set up residential schools.

EDMONTON — Amazon.com Inc. will turn to robots to help pick, pack and ship parcels at a new Canadian facility.

EDMONTON — A statue was vandalized at a Catholic church in Edmonton on the weekend, one of a string of recent acts against Catholic churches following the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at two former residential school sites.

BANFF, Alta. — A walk down the main drag may make it look like all is well in the tourism hot-spot of Banff, where restaurant patios are full and nearby hiking trails are packed on weekends.

EDMONTON — Every time Sana Chaudhry's daughter sees her father getting up to pray, the two-year-old toddler picks up a scarf and waddles behind him to the prayer mat.

LAS VEGAS — Alberta heavyweight Tanner (The Bulldozer) Boser stopped Ovince (OSP) Saint Preux in the second round of the co-main event of a UFC Fight Night card Saturday.

CALGARY — The Lethbridge Police Service has delivered a revamped plan to the province's justice minister aimed at fixing problems that led to a threat that the service could be disbanded.