Alberta News

CALGARY — A Calgary researcher has developed a new tool that can detect the presence of genetic mutations within hours instead of weeks.

CALGARY — Police have laid drug-trafficking charges after a man allegedly handed out business cards with free samples of cocaine in Calgary.

CALGARY — Decorated para alpine ski champion Mac Marcoux announced his retirement Wednesday, but he isn't done with sport. The 26-year-old from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — Two of four men charged with conspiracy to commit murder during the 2022 blockade at the Canada-U. S. border crossing near Coutts, Alta., have pleaded guilty to lesser charges.

CALGARY — Athabasca Oil Corp. and Cenovus Energy Inc. have closed a previously announced deal creating a new joint venture stand-alone company called Duvernay Energy Corp.

CALGARY — The Calgary Stampede has agreed to pay $9.5 million in damages to complainants in a class-action lawsuit that alleged the organization allowed a performance school staffer to sexually abuse young boys.

MONTREAL — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, responding to Alberta’s proposed rules for transgender youth, says the federal government needs to “butt out” of provincial health care and education.

CALGARY — Low natural gas prices significantly reduced North American drilling activity toward the end of 2023, but Canada's largest drilling rig contracting company remains confident the industry will ramp up later this year.

BROOKS — Canadian Pacific Railway crews are cleaning up a 17-car derailment south of Brooks. The train went off the tracks late Monday, with no injuries reported.

STONY PLAIN, ALTA. — One person is dead after a train collided with a vehicle in Stony Plain, Alberta. Parkland RCMP says they received a report of a collision between a train and a vehicle in Stony Plain at 3:56 p.m. local time.