Alberta News

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Cora Dion's voice echoes as she films a video showing what's left in the basement of her home in downtown Fort McMurray after several days of flood cleanup. The couch and chair are in the garbage.

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — Cora Dion's voice echoes as she films a video showing what's left in the basement of her home in downtown Fort McMurray after several days of flood cleanup. The couch and chair are in the garbage.

CALGARY — Work-from-home measures taken to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic are challenging long-held assumptions about how Canada's oil and gas sector should provide and care for its office workers.

BLACKFALDS, Alta. — RCMP say a stray bullet hit a bystander inside her central Alberta home before there was a police chase and a deadly highway shootout.

EDMONTON — Alberta has charged a Calgary-based supply company with COVID-19 price gouging, but the company's owner says he himself is paying massively inflated prices just to bring in supplies like masks and sanitizer.

EDMONTON — As Alberta has recently been adding or restoring millions of dollars in pay to its physicians, Premier Jason Kenney says things will have to change once the COVID-19 pandemic is over. "We're now facing a $20-billion deficit.

EDMONTON — The Alberta government says it will provide $147 million in disaster relief for communities affected by flooding during spring ice breakup.

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — An outside police agency is to investigate the actions of officers who forced a restaurant worker in a "Star Wars'' storm-trooper costume to the ground in southern Alberta.

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — Lethbridge Hurricanes general manager Peter Anholt has been awarded the Lloyd Saunders Memorial Trophy, given out annually to the Western Hockey League executive of the year.

EDMONTON — Premier Jason Kenney says Alberta and the federal government will cost share a $42-million program to help farmers and ranchers deal with a backlog of cattle waiting to be processed during the COVID-19 pandemic.