Alberta News

CALGARY — Crescent Point Energy Corp. announced a special dividend for shareholders Wednesday, as continued high oil prices helped the Calgary-based oil and gas company deliver a five-fold increase in profits in its third quarter.

EDMONTON — An eight-your-old girl has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after she was struck by a school bus in southwest Edmonton.

EDMONTON — An Edmonton journalist has been charged with vandalism after a statue of a controversial Ukrainian military commander was spray-painted.

CALGARY — Canada's energy sector will be the recipient of a wave of public and private investment dollars in the coming decade, experts say, as the push to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 gains momentum.

CALGARY — It has been a smooth transition in Calgary for Nazem Kadri. Kadri remained red-hot on Tuesday, extending his NHL points streak to six games with two goals and an assist to lead the Flames to a 4-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins.

EDMONTON — A lawyer for a mentally ill man who fatally stabbed five young people at a Calgary house party is appealing a determination that he remains "a significant risk to public safety" and wants him released from custody.

TWIN BUTTE, Alta. — The Nature Conservancy of Canada has announced a $6.9-million campaign to save a distinctive landscape near Waterton Lakes National Park in southern Alberta.

CALGARY — Alberta's premier has stated her support for a new arena in Calgary to house the NHL's Flames and wants the province to get involved.

CALGARY — Hockey Canada says it will not collect a participant assessment fee for the upcoming season.

CALGARY — Alberta's highest court has granted permission for a popular mountain community to appeal a decision by a provincial tribunal ordering it to allow two major developments that would almost double the town's population.