Alberta News

EDMONTON — There’s a small section of the West Edmonton Mall reserved for luxury, high-end retailers, where you can look at Rolex watches, Tiffany jewelry or Louis Vuitton bags.

EDMONTON — Oilpatch support for Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's agenda ballooned after she won her party's leadership and put the so-called RStar program — a plan to give tax breaks to energy companies for fulfilling cleanup work they are already ob

CALGARY — Andrew Cristall's lone goal of a three-round shootout lifted the visiting Kelowna Rockets to a 3-2 victory over the Calgary Hitmen in Western Hockey League action on Sunday.

CANMORE, Alta. — A 27-year-old man faces charges after a shootout between an officer and a suspect west of Calgary. RCMP allege an officer from their Banff detachment was pulling over a driver in Canmore, Alta.

EDMONTON — Police in Edmonton say they've asked the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team to investigate after video circulated online of a man being repeatedly punched during an arrest last week.

CALGARY — An electricity retailer in Alberta is betting it can entice more homeowners to make the switch to solar panels by launching what it calls Canada's first retail, 100 per cent green energy-based "virtual power plant.

EDMONTON — Alberta is scheduled to introduce its budget Tuesday — the last before a spring provincial election — with political observerswondering what the province will do with all its billions of extra petrodollars.

CALGARY — A judge sentenced two men to prison Friday for what he called "a deplorable act" that led to the death of a well-known Calgary chef.

EDMONTON — Three Métis groups signed a deal Friday with the federal government that recognizes them as Indigenous governments, putting them on equal constitutional standing with First Nations and opening the door to further negotiations such as compe

VEGREVILLE, Alta. — The Alberta government is pledging more than $27 million in its upcoming budget to help Ukrainians resettle in the province one year after Russia invaded the eastern European country.