Alberta News

The Alberta Construction Association welcomed a new chairman and handed out a chairman's award for volunteer services at its annual general meeting earlier this month.

A 17-year-old woman was killed early Saturday morning when a truck hit a grove of trees north of Stettler, RCMP say.

A man in his 50s escaped an explosion of flames after knocking over a heater inside a trailer parked near Hubalta Road.

Love beats action as 'The Vow' bows at No. 1 with $41.7M; 'Safe House' is No. 2 with $39.3M Harold Leduc gestures during an interview in Ottawa, Tuesday Feb.1, 2012.

The world is on the threshold of what might be called "peak people." The world's supply of working-age people will soon be shrinking, causing a shift from surplus to scarcity.

A 17-year-old Stettler woman has died and a 19-year-old man faces charges after a pickup truck swerved off the road and hit a grove of trees early Saturday morning.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper officially confirmed Saturday that China has agreed to loan two giant pandas to zoos in Toronto and Calgary for a period of five years each - beginning next year - at a cost of $10 million.

As if he were employing the pop psychology Mars-versus-Venus framework on the issue, Shell Chief Executive Peter Voser called for a less "emotional" response to fracking in Europe.

A 17-year-old Stettler woman has died and a 19-year-old man faces charges after a pickup truck swerved off the road and hit a grove of trees early Saturday morning.

A 17-year-old girl from Stettler, Alta., died after this truck veered into a stand of trees Saturday morning.

Canadian consumers get to mark "Food Freedom Day" on the same day in 2012 as in the previous three years, having earned enough on average to pay the total bill for groceries for the year.

Youth will look to be served in the B Event final at the Alberta Boston Pizza Cup.

Last week, passersby might have noticed a dusty 1990 Chevy pickup parked on the pad smack in front of the Varscona Theatre lobby.

Firefighters and crews investigate after a bus rolled over on on Highway 28 near Redwater, about 65 kilometres northeast of Edmonton on Friday, February 10, 2012.

The general manager of a Canadian motorcoach travel company says about 30 people have been injured after a bus rolled over on a highway near Edmonton, Alberta.

The view from a helicopter shows the landfill fire on the Tsuu T'ina reserve continues to smolder while crews work to extinguish it.

Merit Contractors Association held an open house Feb. 9 to unveil their completely renovated facility on St.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivered a pointed message Friday directly to the People's Republic of China from the people back home: Canada wants to sell you its oil and gas, but won't trade its principles... No new taxes.

Sawyer Clarke Robison, 27, is shown in an RCMP handout photo. The man wanted in the shooting of two Alberta RCMP officers has been arrested without incident.THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Alberta RCMP Robison had been on the run since Tuesday afternoon when the officers were shot while executing a search warrant for a gun on his family farm near Killam, ... (more)

Scott Thompson, project director EllisDon, at the new south Calgary hospital, which received more than $200 million for operations in the Alberta government's 2012 budget.