Alberta News

CALGARY — Calgary's water conservation efforts have improved but there's still a "high risk" of running dry as crews continue to repair a major water main break over the next five to seven days, city officials said Saturday.

CALGARY — Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek is urging residents to continue cutting their water use or risk having it run out as crews fix a massive break in a feeder line. Gondek says there are 23 water reservoirs serving Calgary.

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — What was supposed to be a full day of evidence at the trial of two men charged with conspiracy to commit murder at the Coutts, Alta., border blockade two years ago turned into a day of legal arguments without the jury present.

EDMONTON — The Saskatchewan Roughriders and Edmonton Elks both have green as their primary colour. But Saturday’s season-opening matchup between the teams at Commonwealth Stadium will feature significant hints of double blue.

EDMONTON — The mayor of Sunrise, Fla., a city near the edge of the Everglades, home to the NHL Panthers and conspicuously named to avoid death, says it's not that different from Edmonton.

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — A Crown prosecutor says two men on trial over the border blockade at Coutts, Alta., conspired to kill police officers and believed they were justified in doing so.

The CEOs and executives of some of Canada's largest oil and gas companies told a parliamentary committee Thursday that they while they oppose an emissions cap on their sector, they do support carbon pricing as a tool to reduce their industry's enviro

CALGARY — The structures division of ATCO Ltd. has signed a deal to buy NRB Ltd., a maker of modular buildings, for $40 million in cash. ATCO says the acquisition of NRB is part of its plan to expand its manufacturing, operations and sales footprint.

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Corey Perry won his first Stanley Cup championship in his second NHL season with the Anaheim Ducks. Seventeen years later, he is still looking for ring No. 2. It is not for lack of trying.

A group of southern Alberta ranchers are turning to the province's top court in a final bid to block applications for coal exploration in the Rocky Mountains.