Alberta News

CALGARY — The Alberta government is hiking the amount of money it will pay for lawyers providing legal aid. Beginning Jan. 1, the rate is to increase from $100 to $125 per hour.

EDMONTON — A rare fossil of a dining dinosaur is shedding new light on ancient ecosystems and behaviours.

CALGARY — Albertans are ringing up the kilowatt hours this holiday season after frigid temperatures this week prompted the province's electrical system operator to declare a grid alert.

CALGARY — Hockey Canada has reached a one-year athlete agreement with its national women's team. The agreement covers 28 athletes and is retroactive to Oct. 1, 2022, Hockey Canada said Wednesday in a statement.

CALGARY — Canadian Olympic speedskaters Gilmore Junio, Kaylin Irvine and Marsha Hudey announced their retirements on Wednesday.

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CALGARY — Reindeer could hold the key to regenerative healing in humans and animals, says research led by the faculty of veterinary medicine at the University of Calgary.

CALGARY — WestJet says snow in British Columbia and extreme cold in Alberta have caused hundreds of flight cancellations over the past three days.

EDMONTON — Alberta Health Services says it's moving around staff to deal with a surging volume of sick children at the Stollery Children's Hospital in Edmonton as a provincial nurses' union called for an indoor mask mandate to help slow the wave of i

EDMONTON — A mental health board has opted to take a cautious approach in granting liberties for an Alberta man who killed his mother because he thought she was possessed by Satan.