Alberta News

EDMONTON — RCMP say a grass fire that closed a northern section of the Trans-Canada Highway in Alberta that had spread to the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village is now under control.

SHERWOOD PARK — A woman was fatally struck in a mall parking lot east of Edmonton after police say a driver hit the gas too hard trying to get off a median.

EDMONTON — Alberta's premier is on her way across the Pacific for a week of meetings in Japan and South Korea.

Armoured dinosaurs with clubbed tails once roamed in what is now northeastern British Columbia, a new study suggests, leaving three-toed footprints across the landscape when the Rocky Mountains were still in their infancy.

EDMONTON — Alberta's transportation minister is calling on the province's two major cities to remove bike lanes from key roadways, prompting critics to say the government is overstepping and making an issue out of nothing.

EDMONTON — An outspoken member of Alberta's legislature, booted from the United Conservative Party caucus, is airing more detailed allegations of what he calls government deception over a health-care contract scandal.

EDMONTON — The Alberta government has announced the appointment of a new interim chief medical officer of health, days after the previous one's contract expired. Officials say Dr.

CALGARY — An important first step has been taken to save Tyra the Tyrannosaurus, the popular tourist attraction that towers over the skyline in Drumheller, Alta., and was facing extinction in 2029.

CALGARY — A student massage therapist has been charged with sexual assault after police say a woman was touched inappropriately at a teaching clinic.

CALGARY — The lead author of a new study pointing to more proof of water on Mars says it brings scientists a step closer to determining whether the planet was ever capable of supporting life.