Alberta News

Alberta high school students are not powerless to stop the fate of their peers who are kidnapped in war-torn countries and forced into lives as soldiers and sex slaves, said Lt.-Gen. Romeo Dallaire Friday.

As four more H1N1 deaths were confirmed in Alberta, the nation's top doctor said the virus is rapidly spreading in the West, with death and hospitalization rates three times greater than a week ago.

Alberta's job market recovery lasted all of one month. After growing by 3,000 jobs in September for the first monthly decrease in the provincial unemployment rate since December 2008, October came along to wipe out the gains and then some.

Parents and their children under five years old line up for H1N1 vaccinations at a flu clinic inside Millbourne Mall in Edmonton, AB, on Nov.

Hundreds of protesters have gathered outside the hotel in Red Deer, Alta., where Progressive Conservative delegates are voting on Premier Ed Stelmach's leadership.

A Canadian transmission company and an Irish wind developer said Friday they are teaming up to pursue a central Montana power project that could result in at least $1 billion worth of new wind energy in the Great Falls area.

Canadian soldiers reacted with horror, dismay and sympathy Friday to the shooting rampage that claimed 13 lives at a U.S. Army base with deep ties to the Canadian military.

The mayor of a 600-person community in central Alberta was narrowly elected today to lead the provincea s alliance of cities, towns and villages.

Criminal charges have been laid against the father of a teenager who accidentally shot and killed his best friend in Rocky Mountain House.

The home of Gerard John Baumgarte in the Parkside Mobile Estates in Red Deer. Baumgarte is charged with the kidnapping of a 16-year-old girl and posing as a police officer.

Alberta Tory cabinet ministers are shrugging off new poll results suggesting the upstart opposition Wildrose Alliance party is nipping at the heels of the government in terms of popular support.

Federal officials are working on finally deporting a convicted drug dealer and killer, one of two siblings behind the savage slaying of an Edmonton man.

Cement truck driver Daniel Tschetter arrived at the Calgary Courts Centre surrounded by family for the sentencing in his homicide case in Calgary on October 7, 2009.

After being carried through extreme Arctic temperatures in recent days, the Olympic flame is making its way to a slightly warmer climate.

Edmonton police investigate a two-vehicle collision that killed two women on Tuesday night.

To neighbours living near the modest west-end bungalow, the work crew probably looked like any contractor doing home renovations.

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Calgary Police Insp. Ray Robitaille shows a number of items seized in three separate investigations as part of the Calgary Police Service's ongoing efforts to combat the drug trade in district 4 and throughout the city.

Forget the battle for the biggest pumpkin. An Alberta farm has pumpkins that can fly.

Inspector Ray Robitaille displays a rifle, at a show on Nov. 3, 2009 in Calgary after busting a drug trafficking ring that turned up drugs, cash and various weapons.