Alberta News

CALGARY a ' An Alberta police officer is calling for an amendment to the Criminal Code of Canada that would carve out a section to deal specifically with crimes motivated by hatred.

Edmonton-based Clark Builders has been awarded a contract by the Alberta government to build four new schools in the province.

Disgraced teacher Brian Douglas Nickel was sentenced to three years and three months in prison Tuesday for having a sexual relationship with a student and making and possessing child pornography.

A map shows the proposed road tunnel under the Calgary airport. Northeast residents worried about plans to close a road by the Calgary airport say they can see the light at the end of their fight for a tunnel.

Two of the seven horses are fed at Northlands after spending days abandoned in a trailer.

A multi-partner drug team seized the equivalent of nearly a quarter million joints during a marijuana grow operation bust near Evansburg late last month.

The Telegram A photograph of a uniquely patterned cloth police suspect is associated to remains found one year ago in the Alberta bush.

As Canada's military personnel serving in Afghanistan prepare to mark Remembrance Day to honour the country's fallen, Calgary's latest soldier killed in combat won't be far from mind.

A 74-year-old man has been charged after police found several horses abandoned in a trailer on the side of the road in northwest Edmonton.

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.

Metis Second World War veteran Leo Goulet will head to France this week. Photograph by: Brian Gavriloff, edmontonjournal.com It's taken 65 years, but the contributions and sacrifices of Metis veterans and those who died at Juno Beach on D-Day are finally being recognized.

Expo 2017 is dead -- long live the West Village. And so Calgary's city council can hold its collective head high for avoiding a massive public debt, while retaining the renewal and re-development that is the expected legacy of a major event like the World's Fair.

Flu vaccination sites in the Edmonton area were quiet today, with regular volume this morning dropping off to a trickle.

Nathan VanderKlippe Calgary - T he operator of one of the oil sands' most troubled projects has put itself up for sale, underscoring the pressure smaller industry players face in the capital-intensive industry.

Monday's federal byelections will choose four new members of Parliament from a list of candidates that includes three farmers, four municipal politicians, a principal, a plumber, and an engineer - but not a single lawyer, a profession that dominates Canadian politics.

It's been seven long years since the official start of Canada's mission in Afghanistan, a period marked by equal parts confusion, stoicism and pride.

Construction began on the northeast ring road in 2007. This shot looks southeast at work on Deerfoot Trail this summer.

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.