Alberta News

The lawyer for an Edmonton eye doctor allegedly targeted in a murder-for-hire plot says her client remains fearful that the man accused of plotting his death will soon be free.

It took a jury less than two hours to render a not guilty verdict in the sexual assault trial of a former Mountie at Medicine Hat Court of Queen's Bench on Thursday.

The area affected by fire bans now covers most counties from Ponoka south to Calgary.

The site of a fatal crash near Hinton following a police chase on Thursday, Nov.

Missy is back in her Ponoka, Alta., barn after becoming only the second Canadian cow - and the fifth in the world - to sell for more than $1 million.

The old health-care premiums are dead, but Alberta's Health minister believes a new model of payment to help Albertans recognize the high costs of the health-care system should be considered in the future.

Federal regulators have signed off on a $161 US million loan to a Canadian company that's building a 350 kilometre power transmission line between Alberta and Montana.

RCMP say a young female may have been abducted in Vegreville this afternoon. However, police said they don't have enough information at this time to indicate anything criminal has taken place.

Const. Christopher Worden was killed as he responded to a call for help. THE CANADIAN PRESS YELLOWKNIFEa 'The bereaved widow of a slain RCMP officer shouted at the man who pumped several shots into her husband as she read a victim impact statement today during a sentencing hearing at the conclusion of a dramatic murder trial.

A man was killed yesterday in a rollover north of Edmonton. Morinville Mounties were called to the single-vehicle rollover crash, on Range Road 252 and Township 564, at 6:40 p.m. A 51-year-old man was thrown from a vehicle and was found dead at the scene.

The boxes were taken from the area between 17 Street and 50 Street, and 106 Avenue and Whitemud Drive.

A court spokesman says a laser eye surgeon in the U.S. has pleaded not guilty to an alleged murder-for-hire targeting two colleagues with Canadian roots.

A bus carrying elementary school students has crashed into a house in northwest Calgary.

As dozens of Alberta municipalities struggle to remain financially viable, the Stelmach government is devising ways to measure whether a town or village can survive on its own, or whether it should consider dissolution or amalgamation.

Fortis Alberta employees prepare light standards that will run along 100 Street in Morinville, Alta.

A decade-long effort to land direct flights connecting Calgary to Asia is over, as Air Canada will start flying between YYC and Tokyo non-stop on March 27, 2010.

A teen is facing charges after a minivan struck a school bus full of students in St.

U.S. Marines patrol a village in front of a poppy field in Afghanistan in this April 30, 2009, file photo.

High winds and a lack of snow cover have prompted officials in three counties to ban all outdoor fires until further notice.

A committee of council has put the brakes on a plan for the city to run transit service out to the International Airport, at least for the time being.