Alberta News

CHESTERMERE, ALBERTA — Seven people, including four children, have died in a house fire in a community just east of Calgary. RCMP say five people managed to escape the early morning fire that engulfed the home in Chestermere.

CALGARY — Home sales in Calgary in June rose compared with a year ago to a new record for the month. The Calgary Real Estate Board says sales totalled 2,915 in June, up 65.3 per cent compared with a year ago.

CALGARY — Nearly 70 per cent of Canadian employers expect to hire more freelance or contract workers in the next two years as their businesses emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report.

CALGARY — Protesters surrounded Alberta's health minister, his wife and two young sons Thursday at the conclusion of a Canada Day parade and a celebration of the lifting of most COVID-19 restrictions.

CALGARY — Police say ten churches in Calgary were vandalized with red and orange paint -- acts investigators believe are a response to the recent discoveries of unmarked graves at the sites of former residential schools.

CALGARY — Alberta lifted almost all its remaining COVID-19 restrictions Thursday, but many businesses said they are taking a more cautious approach as things start to return to normal.

EDMONTON — The 44-year mystery around the identity of a man whose scorched body was found in a septic tank has been solved with a forensic technique used to find the Golden State Killer in the United States, Alberta RCMP say.

CALGARY — Shaw Communications Inc. says it had $354 million of net income for the three months ended May 31, compared with $184 million in last year's fiscal third quarter.

MORINVILLE, Alta. — Alberta's premier is condemning what he calls "arson attacks at Christian churches" after a historic parish was destroyed in a fire that prompted a small town to cancel its Canada Day celebrations.

EDMONTON — The latest figures show Alberta's fight against COVID-19 cost more than $5 billion by the end of the last fiscal year in March.