Alberta News

Protesters in Environment Minister Jim Prentice's Calgary office on Monday called for a stronger Canadian policy on climate change.

Nicole Hoar of Red Deer went missing when hitchhiking along Highway 16 by the Gauthier Road intersection during a trip from Prince George to Smithers, B.C., June 21, 2002.

The man at the helm of Alberta's health superboard is promising to not close rural hospitals, but warned more changes are coming to health care.

Alberta Health Services has expanded the H1N1 vaccination program to include all Albertans starting on Monday, November 23.

EDMONTON a ' The Canada Border Services Agency has deported a man who recently completed time in prison for sexually assaulting two teenage girls, including one in Edmonton.

It's been a year of changes for Canadian rockers Arkells. Since releasing their debut full-length album Jackson Square last autumn, the Hamilton quintet has gone from playing sporadic hometown shows to touring coast-to-coast, sharing the stage with such acts as Matt Mays, Pearl Jam and the Black Crowes.

When the Journal reported last week that the city had finally issued a demolition order for the Cromdale Hotel on 118th Avenue and 81st Street, many Edmontonians cheered.

A maintenance worker at the hospital in Medicine Hat, Alta. has been killed. Chris Chodan, a spokesman for Alberta Occupational Health and Safety, says the accident happened Wednesday in a loading bay outside the hospital.

A resident of a Calgary apartment complex risked serious injury - and possibly death - Saturday morning when he picked up and tossed away two explosives that had been placed outside his suite only moments before they blew up.

Art Savage, the majority owner of the Sacramento River Cats, the Triple-A affiliate of the Oakland Athletics, has died.

RCMP in Alberta say after a lengthy investigation they've busted an alleged "chop shop" on the Frog Lake First Nation, east of Edmonton.

Grande Prairie's reigning Stompede Queen is taking her good looks and barrel-racing skills to the national stage.

Starting this spring, Air Canada will be offering direct flights from Calgary to Tokyo.

The lawyer for an Edmonton eye doctor allegedly targeted in a murder-for-hire plot says her client remains fearful that the man accused of plotting his death will soon be free.

It took a jury less than two hours to render a not guilty verdict in the sexual assault trial of a former Mountie at Medicine Hat Court of Queen's Bench on Thursday.

The area affected by fire bans now covers most counties from Ponoka south to Calgary.

The site of a fatal crash near Hinton following a police chase on Thursday, Nov.

Missy is back in her Ponoka, Alta., barn after becoming only the second Canadian cow - and the fifth in the world - to sell for more than $1 million.

The old health-care premiums are dead, but Alberta's Health minister believes a new model of payment to help Albertans recognize the high costs of the health-care system should be considered in the future.

Federal regulators have signed off on a $161 US million loan to a Canadian company that's building a 350 kilometre power transmission line between Alberta and Montana.