Beyond Local

News that the Alberta government is looking at legislation to create an independent police agency, could affect Lac La Biche’s Peace Officer Training Centre, says the program’s boss.

A 46-year-old man has been charged with breaking and entering, causing damage to property over $5,000 and being in possession of break-in instruments after police were called out to an oil lease site a few miles northwest of Bonnyville.

Judges bid Renu Mathew goodbye at the end of episode 6 of The Great Pottery Throw Down

One person was taken to hospital with injuries described as serious in a ten vehicle crash on a highway near Estevan.

Jesse Cardinal, executive director of Keepers of the Water, said regulation of the acids is urgent given the proposed plans to release tailings water into the Athabasca River after treatment.

In every region of Canada, pollsters found a majority of respondents agree Ottawa should introduce a windfall tax on oil and gas companies.

CPS officers, along with members of the Airdrie Rural RCMP, arrested three individuals and seized a sawed-off .22 semi-automatic rifle, ammunition, bear spray and small quantities of drugs.

MD of Bonnyville Reeve Barry Kalinski is among the Canadians stranded in Haiti as the country is in a state of emergency.

Having extensive – and expensive – skin-care and makeup routines has become a status symbol for teens and tweens

Banff town councillor Hugh Pettigrew has been charged with sexual assault and will continue on council and other community duties, he said, while the case makes its way through the courts.