Police searching for truck in connection to fatal January shooting
Edmonton police are on the lookout for a truck investigators believe is connected to a January shooting that killed a 28-year-old man. Police describe the vehicle as a light-coloured Dodge pickup with...
View ArticleBottcher captures A Event final
Did Brendan Bottcher just win Alberta? Did the Sherwood Park skip, with a steal in the 10th end to win 6-5 win over Mick Lizmore in the all-Edmonton ‘A’ Event final here Thursday, just become the first...
View ArticleTerry Jones: Kennedy watches Boston Pizza Cup from stands
WESTLOCK — It was one of those ‘What’s wrong with this picture?’ moments. Marc Kennedy and his wife Nicole sat in the stands here Friday morning as paying spectators. Twelve times Kennedy has played in...
View ArticleFire forces evacuation, cancelled classes at parts of Northern Alberta...
A fire in a physics lab forced the evacuation of six wings of Northern Alberta Institute of Technology and the cancellation of some classes on Friday. NAIT spokesman Frank Landry said the fire was...
View ArticleMother credits Valour Place with saving infant son's life
Valour Place didn’t just offer Ashley Beck’s family a place to stay while her premature baby was in the hospital, she credits their support with saving his life. “It had such an impact not just for us...
View Article$1.6 billion Fort McMurray transmission line project approved
A $1.6 billion transmission line project running from just west of Edmonton to the Fort McMurray area has been approved by the Alberta Utilities Commission. The Fort McMurray West 500-kV Transmission...
View ArticleRocket men of Edmonton gear up for winter launch
Alberta, you are cleared for take-off. Next Saturday a group of rocketry enthusiasts is hoping to launch a three-metre, 18.5-kilogram rocket more than 2.1 kilometres into the sky. It will be one of...
View ArticleHarbin Gate removal triggers traffic disruptions in downtown Edmonton
Traffic flow will be disrupted around downtown for between two to four weeks as construction on the city’s new Valley Line LRT continues. Starting around Feb. 20, three of four eastbound lanes on 102...
View ArticleFort McMurray couple fork out $1,300 at Birke dinner for sentimental chair...
A young couple who fled the Fort McMurray wildfire last year were prepared to pay “any price” Saturday night for an Adirondack chair similar to the one they left behind when their home was destroyed....
View ArticleEdmonton's inventors club borne out of necessity
David Bayda no longer has his invention notepad he owned when he was 12 — like everyone, he’s gone digital — but he still remembers the product that graced its opening page, his first invention. It...
View ArticleMetallica to play Edmonton's Commonwealth Stadium Aug. 16 as part of...
Play it loud, mutha! And outdoors, no less! Fresh off their return-to-form album Hardwired… to Self-Destruct, long-lived, California metal heavyweights Metallica are playing Commonwealth Stadium...
View ArticleDriver charged with going nearly double the speed limit in fatal crash
A 47-year-old man has been charged with going nearly double the speed limit in connection to Edmonton’s first fatal collision of 2017. Edmonton police responded to a two-vehicle collision just after 3...
View ArticleEdmonton MLA asks for input into plan to scrap daylight savings time
As a kindergarten teacher and mother of a seven-month-old, Ashley Dermody knows that daylight savings time can throw a wrench into any carefully planned routine. When she travels with her daughter,...
View ArticleSkating sweethearts share their love stories
The Oil City Roller Derby league took a break from bruising to show a little tenderness for Valentine’s Day. The league put on the Sweetheart Roller Disco at the Edmonton Sportsdome, where couples...
View ArticleFour men charged, arrest warrant issued, in northern Alberta methamphetamine,...
Four men have been charged, and police are on the lookout for another, following a joint drug trafficking investigation in northern Alberta. The Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT) and Lac...
View ArticleSTARS air ambulance patient shares Valentine's Day story as lottery sales slump
For the Hirschfield family, it was the worst Valentine’s Day of their lives. Blowing snow and icy conditions had already made roads treacherous as Cpl. Marcus Hirschfield returned from the scene of a...
View ArticleEdmonton-based march highlighting missing and murdered indigenous women now...
Hundreds of people squeezed into the basement of Sacred Heart Church on Tuesday evening before embarking on an annual march for missing and murdered women. Danielle Boudreau started the Memorial March...
View ArticlePolice investigate after stolen truck slams into south Edmonton restaurant,...
Police are searching for suspects after a stolen truck slammed into a south Edmonton restaurant and jewelry store Wednesday morning. Southeast patrol officers responded to reports of a break and enter...
View ArticleDrinkSense campaign urges Albertans to booze in moderation
The Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission is hoping a new game will make young adults take responsible drinking seriously. In its latest DrinkSense campaign, the liquor commission is bringing a...
View ArticleFire crews battle blaze at west Edmonton apartment complex
Residents in west Edmonton were sent scrambling after flames ripped through a four-storey apartment building Thursday morning. Edmonton fire crews were called to tackle the blaze just after 8 a.m. at...
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