Edmonton News

Edmonton police investigate the scene of the city's 25th homicide of 2009. The body of a black male sits slumped in the driver's seat of a large sedan in the parking lot of a building at the corner of 106th Avenue and 105th Street in Edmonton on Sunday, Nov.

EDMONTON a ' A longer-than-normal construction season means motorists should have better access to Whitemud Drive and an extra driving lane on the congested roadway before Christmas, the city of Edmonton announced Thursday.

EDMONTON a ' Edmontonians are invited to give a heroa TMs welcome Tuesday afternoon to about 240 Edmonton-based soldiers who have been serving in Afghanistan for the past 10 months.

Edmonton unlicensed escorts fined almost $134,000: The city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada fined several unlicensed escorts and agencies a total of $134K Canadian.

CHICAGO Newsrack theft is a chronic but usually petty problem for newspapers, but authorities in Edmonton, Alberta, say a pair of thieves took the crime to extremes -- swiping three dozen vending boxes from city streets and repeatedly breaking into a factory to hide them.

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

EDMONTON a ' North Cariboo Air is moving to a new home at the international airport Dec.

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.

Around 240 soldiers are scheduled to return home to Edmonton today, just in time for the holiday season.

Play Video Jessica Lords just wants to help kids. "I couldn't imagine looking at my kids and telling them there are no gifts this Christmas," she says.

A police officer is in hospital after she was hit by a car while she investigated another crash on the Yellowhead Saturday afternoon.

Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 6:08 p.m. SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Art Savage, the majority owner of the Sacramento River Cats, the Triple-A affiliate of the Oakland Athletics, has died.

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.

Emrah Bulatci was found guilty murdering RCMP officer Christopher Worden in Hay River, N.W.T. A jury in Yellowknife convicted an Alberta man on Thursday of first-degree murder in the shooting death of an RCMP officer in Hay River, N.W.T. Emrah Bulatci, 25, bowed his head and wept as the jurors delivered the verdict in N.W.T. Supreme Court.

Six-year-old Kai Wong is held by his dad Ray yesterday as he gets the H1N1 flu shot at Bonnie Doon Shopping Centre.

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.

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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.

Curry Roasted Pink Salmon. A study warns consumers to beware that high-priced fish is sometimes substituted by cheaper fish.

EDMONTON a ' 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.