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A 57-year-old Lacombe man who shot and killed his hunting partner on Sunday afternoon is in police custody and charges are pending against him.

A plan is being developed that will guide land-use decisions in Southern Alberta for decades to come.

The Canadian and Alberta governments said on Tuesday they will invest as much as C$558 million in a pipeline project to carry carbon-dioxide from an industrial region near Edmonton, Alberta, to aging oil fields.

Montana Alberta Tie Ltd. has received its first draw of construction financing for the MATL transmission line project.

Dozens of people who lived in a Grande Prairie building apartment are homeless after a fire destroyed the building Saturday, said a city spokesman.

As a follow up to the recent Leonardo DiCaprio sighting in Banff, Alberta, here's a request: If he's in Canada, let us hear about it! Leave a comment and I'll pass it along in an article.

A big hole is being dug beside the giant, pink birthday cake known as Canada Place.

Premier Ed Stelmach addresses the media as Susan Cole, president of Enhance Energy, looks on.

One of the biggest residential fires in Grande Prairie this year forced the total evacuation of a three-storey apartment building next to Resources Road this morning.

Former hostages Amanda Lindhout, left, of Sylvan Lake, and Nigel Brennan, of Australia, arrive in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Wednesday.

Five-year-old Kamila Gul should not have survived the landmine blast that slammed shrapnel into her tiny body, most of it to her skull.

After five years of operating, Mayor Jim Sheasgreen wants to see Fort Saskatchewan's commuter bus service reviewed to figure out how to get more people to ride it.

There are plenty of things to see and do in Calgary that don't require a car. Photograph by: Gavin Young, Calgary Herald 1. Start your walking tour of Calgary by orienting yourself at the Calgary Tower.

As Amanda Lindhout received medical care in Nairobi yesterday, those close to the recently freed Alberta journalist were buzzing over her release and her imminent return home.

A northern Alberta sawmill is again closing indefinitely, throwing roughly 290 of its employees out of work.

Five-year-old Kamila Gul should not have survived the landmine blast that slammed shrapnel into her tiny body, most of it to her skull.

Homework has been a longtime staple of the school curriculum, but it has also been a source of contention for those who question its necessity and the benefits for kids.

Edmonton's medical examiner has identified the innocent driver of a pickup truck that was hit head-on by a stolen minivan last week as Bradley Kenneth Kerfoot, 30, of Leduc, Alta.

The cost of home ownership is rising across Canada, and British Columbia is leading the way.

This is an undated photo from the web of Kyle McKee, who is wanted by Calgary Police for attempted murder and other charges.

The Responsible Electricity Transmission for Albertans group drew about 2,000 people to Rexall Place on Tuesday.

Canadian freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout, seen reporting in Iraq, was kidnapped in August 2008 in Somalia.

EDMONTON a ' Three Stettler teens have been charged in connection with the sexual assault and confinement of two girls, ages 12 and 13.

Alex Saab, owner of Liquor Run at 15636 Stony Plain Road in Edmonton, is seen surrounded by some of the products he sells.

H1N1 flu vaccination campaign will be expanded during the week of Nov. 23 to include everybody in the province.

The number of people receiving regular employment insurance benefits rose by 54,300 or 7.1 per cent in September after two months of declines.

EDMONTON a ' An Edmonton cop who pulled up to a McDonalda TMs early Sunday morning had more to deal with than just ordering breakfast.

A 60-year-old man from Athabasca is dead after a crash on a snowy, slippery section of Highway 2 about 50 kilometres north of Edmonton.

Kyle Robert McKee, 24, is wanted on a warrant for attempted murder. A self-proclaimed white supremacist and a teenager are being sought for attempted murder in connection with explosive devices left outside an apartment unit and detonated in the parking lot.

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.

RCMP say a young female may have been abducted in Vegreville this afternoon. However, police said they don't have enough information at this time to indicate anything criminal has taken place.

Const. Christopher Worden was killed as he responded to a call for help. THE CANADIAN PRESS YELLOWKNIFEa 'The bereaved widow of a slain RCMP officer shouted at the man who pumped several shots into her husband as she read a victim impact statement today during a sentencing hearing at the conclusion of a dramatic murder trial.

A man was killed yesterday in a rollover north of Edmonton. Morinville Mounties were called to the single-vehicle rollover crash, on Range Road 252 and Township 564, at 6:40 p.m. A 51-year-old man was thrown from a vehicle and was found dead at the scene.

The boxes were taken from the area between 17 Street and 50 Street, and 106 Avenue and Whitemud Drive.

A court spokesman says a laser eye surgeon in the U.S. has pleaded not guilty to an alleged murder-for-hire targeting two colleagues with Canadian roots.

A bus carrying elementary school students has crashed into a house in northwest Calgary.

As dozens of Alberta municipalities struggle to remain financially viable, the Stelmach government is devising ways to measure whether a town or village can survive on its own, or whether it should consider dissolution or amalgamation.

Fortis Alberta employees prepare light standards that will run along 100 Street in Morinville, Alta.

A decade-long effort to land direct flights connecting Calgary to Asia is over, as Air Canada will start flying between YYC and Tokyo non-stop on March 27, 2010.

A teen is facing charges after a minivan struck a school bus full of students in St.

U.S. Marines patrol a village in front of a poppy field in Afghanistan in this April 30, 2009, file photo.

High winds and a lack of snow cover have prompted officials in three counties to ban all outdoor fires until further notice.

A committee of council has put the brakes on a plan for the city to run transit service out to the International Airport, at least for the time being.

Sebastien Krisciunas, 9, holds a hand-made wreath while gazing at grave markers before a Remembrance Day ceremony at a military cemetery in Calgary.

Challenged on the province's plans to build north-south transmission lines, Premier Ed Stelmach says Alberta needs to get wired soon.

A program that cut the number of cigarette butts on Edmonton streets and sidewalks during the summer could be expanded to other parts of the city next year.

The province passed a "made in Alberta approach" to monitoring how businesses and unions advertise during election campaigns Monday.

EDMONTON a ' A car rolled near Camrose on Saturday, killing its 73-year-old driver.

The Alberta and federal governments hope another $25 million will help contain a massive swarm of tree-killing mountain pine beetles before they spread farther east.

EDMONTON a ' A 79-year-old motorcyclist from Fort Saskatchewan is dead after he hit a moose Sunday south of Gibbons.

A local tanning studio is running a unique toy-raiser throughout the month that it hopes will benefit the Fort Saskatchewan Food Bank's Christmas Hamper campaign.

Wildrose Alliance Party leader Danielle Smith gestures as she speaks at a business breakfast in Calgary Monday, Nov.

Calgary - The Canadian Press Published on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009 10:34PM EST A list of the Gemini Awards handed out Saturday at a gala in Calgary: Best dramatic series: "Flashpoint" Best comedy program or series: "Rick Mercer Report" Best dramatic miniseries: "Burn Up" Best reality program or series: "Dragons' Den" Best performance by an actor in ...

Environmentalists have spent the last few years declaring that Fort Chipewyan, a town of about 900 located near Alberta's Athabasca oilsands, is an example of how industrialism can run amok and poison innocents.

A new surgical technique using glue to repair breastbones intentionally broken during open-heart surgery speeds up recovery time and is "substantially less painful" for patients, a Canadian doctor has found.

The LRT at the new McKernan and South Campus LRT stations. Photograph by: Ed Kaiser, Edmonton Journal EDMONTON a ' Edmontona TMs city council has postponed debate on a controversial expansion of the LRT system after some councillors expressed concern about building the west-end route along Stony Plain Road.

Bernie Madoff, now in prison in the U.S., has become the poster boy for scams. Photograph by: Getty Images, Calgary Herald and Reuters It's been called "Ponzimonium"-- a surge in the number of Ponzi schemes being probed across North America--and it has watchdogs in Western Canada busy, too.

A father slashed 10 years off his age and his son claimed to be older so they could both fight in the First World War.

The slick cop drama "Flashpoint" was the big winner at Saturday's Gemini Awards as it snagged three of the night's top honours in Canadian television, including best drama.

Women with asthma may notice that their asthma symptoms get worse at certain times of the month.

Toronto's annual Royal Agricultural Winter Fair is wrapping up this weekend with a visit from a very wealthy guest: Missy the Million Dollar Cow.

A police officer shot a man during an investigation of a suspicious vehicle. A man shot Wednesday night by a Calgary police officer is in hospital in stable condition.

Oil industry-caused earthquakes in Alberta will be some of the tremors monitored by University of Calgary geophysics researchers.

Four-year-old Jenna Gervais is decidedly unhappy as she gets her H1N1 vaccine Nov.

The man found dead outside of an Edmonton synagogue Thursday morning has been identified as Abdulaziz Osman Isse, a 21-year-old Toronto man, police say.

Rob Pearce holds a photo of himself and his fiancee Jaclyn Bates in Calgary, Alberta Wednesday, November 11, 2009.

The government agency that regulates Alberta's oil and gas industry lifted its ban on new sour gas projects Friday.

Under the proposal, people would be able to take city buses as well as shuttles and taxis to and from Edmonton International Airport.

Two criminals have been deported by Canada Border Services, one of them a known gang member involved in the early days of a high-profile deadly dispute between rival groups in Calgary.

Many patients across Alberta are still failing to manage their diabetes - losing toes and feet in the process - but researchers are finding that teaching patients more about their disease can help.

A new Canadian holds a flag as they attend a citizenship ceremony during Canada Day celebrations at Prince's Island on July 1, 2009.

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A baby chortled, a child coughed and someone's cellphone played a soft jingle, but it was otherwise silent as a capacity crowd stood for two minutes to mark Remembrance Day in an emotional ceremony at the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium on Wednesday.

The Grande Alberta Economic Region paid a visit to Mayerthorpe town council, and had two strong messages for council and would-be members of the economic alliance.

If there are tears in Murray Marshall's eyes at today's funeral service, they represent more than a father's natural sorrow over the loss of his son.

One person's castoff is another person's pearl. That's what members of the Onoway Historical Guild are hoping for, after the old Onoway Elementary school was placed in their hands by Northern Gateway school division.

In a series leading up to the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we asked our contributors to look back at their thoughts on that fateful day, and to reflect on whether history fulfilled the dreams that sprang from the rubble near Checkpoint Charlie.

Fuller family's restaurants heading east The Fuller Family Chris Bolin for The Globe and Ma The clan dominates in Western Canada with their Earls and Joeys chains.

Public hearings for the controversial expansion of the city's LRT system drew dozens of Edmontonians to city hall Monday, the majority lobbying against the proposed plans.

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.

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.

The man arrested after an armed standoff with police Oct. 29 in Camrose, Alta., now faces 13 additional charges, police said Wednesday.

Sixteen Greenpeace activists will plead not guilty to charges arising from a protest at the Shell upgrader expansion site in Fort Saskatchewan on Oct.

GRANDE PRAIRIE a ' A year after a fatality inquiry wrapped up into the death of an intoxicated woman in a Grande Prairie Jail cell, a judgea TMs report on the matter has been issued publicly.

The Queen Mother "fell in love with Canada" during her first trip to the country in the summer of 1939, says William Shawcross, author of a new official biography on the late royal consort.

Albertans are worried about the effect of high voltage power lines on the health and safety of their children, according to a survey done last month.

The government agency that regulates Alberta's oil and gas industry Tuesday temporarily suspended the issuing of licences for sour gas projects.

RED DEER, Alta. a ' A Red Deer man has pleaded guilty to six charges related to the kidnapping and sexual assault of an Alberta teenager earlier this year.

Two Canadian men have been charged with depositing very large, illegitimate IRS refund checks.

A 26-year old man was rushed to hospital after being shot in the Wal-Mart parking lot in Cold Lake.

A dose of the coveted H1N1 vaccine is likely still weeks away for most Canadians, but there's a host of familiar common-sense strategies people can employ to help keep themselves healthy in the meantime, experts say.

Calgary has pulled out of bidding on Expo 2017, determining that it wasn't feasible to proceed without large cash infusions from other levels of government.

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An Alberta man has been successful in a bid to collect his fifth lottery prize in the last five years.

A couple and their son were found slain in their home in Medicine Hat in southern Alberta in April 2006.

The federal government is funding eight projects that will strengthen recreational infrastructure in Southern Alberta communities.

The Alberta firm that put "fire in the ground" oil production on the map with successful tests in an Athabasca bitumen deposit opened operations in Saskatchewan on Tuesday.

A Fort Saskatchewan man has been charged with possessing child porn following an 11-month investigation.

A baby is recovered from a stolen truck. Photograph by: Walter Tychnowicz, Edmonton Journal EDMONTON a ' The Sturgeon County teenager who stole a truck with a five-month-old baby boy nestled in a car seat has been sentenced to 12-monthsa TM probation.

Overwhelmed flu clinics will all have their lineups shut down as of 12:30 p.m. and new arrivals will be turned away, according to an Alberta Health Services spokesman.

Charlevoix lambs and sheep are seen at the Ferme Eboulmontaise in Les Eboulements, Charlevoix, Quebec.

The board of directors of Alberta Health Services has voted to freeze the wages of managers and non-union staff for two years, prompting an outcry from the province's largest union.

EDMONTON a ' Camrose RCMP are investigating after a home invasion at a rural acreage that was licensed to grow medical marijuana.

Alberta is facing a new and bigger invasion of tree-killing mountain pine beetles and is looking to the federal government for help in preventing the tiny insects from spreading further east into the boreal forest.