Alberta News

EDMONTON — From dealing cards at a casino to working in oilfield camps in northern Alberta, addictions counsellor Justin Buffalo turns sorrow into stories permeated with comedy and urban legend.

EDMONTON — Military veterans and officers were among dozens of people who gathered in front of Edmonton City Hall on Friday morning, poppies pinned to their winter coats, at a Remembrance Day service.

BANFF, Alta. — Parks Canada officials are trying to determine what's next for a herd of plains bisonin Banff National Park after a draft report shows its reintroduction in the park's backcountry has been successful.

EDMONTON — Canada is going to the FIBA World Cup. Kassius Robertson’s 16-point performance helped Canada's men's basketball team beat Venezuela 94-56 on Thursday to clinch a berth in next summer's major international tournament.

CALGARY — A former running back with the Calgary Stampeders who filmed a sexual encounter with a woman without her permission offered a tearful apology at his sentencing hearing Thursday.

EDMONTON — The head of the Rural Municipalities of Alberta says an oil and gas industry proposal to grant the industry royalty credits to clean up abandoned wells is like having the fox design the henhouse.

CALGARY — A judge has found a young man involved in the hit-and-run death of a Calgary police officer guilty of manslaughter. Sgt. Andrew Harnett died in hospital on Dec.

CALGARY — A judge says a man who killed a woman and her young daughter and buried them in a shallow grave near Calgary must serve 22 years before he can apply for parole.

OTTAWA — Senior civil servants from Alberta and Ontario left the impression at a public inquiry Thursday that Ottawa was not keen to come to their aid to deal with protest blockades last winter — at least, not before the invocation of the Emergencies

CALGARY — The federal Competition Bureau is investigating the Canadian Gas Association to determine if it made misleading statements about the environmental impact of natural gas.