Alberta News

Each summer, a multitude of Edmonton festivals suit practically any taste. For belly laughs and bewilderment, there's the famed Edmonton Street Performers Festival downtown, running from now through July 12.

CALGARYa 'Canada's citizenship minister says it's a challenge to get immigrants to fit into society when only one-quarter of them actually take advantage of free language training.

The J.R. Simplot Co. is starting a new company with a Canadian-based partner to help farmers and producers better track products with a computerized data management system.

Alberta Prairie Railway offers a fun day excursion. I started hyperventilating as I stood above the narrow chasm of rock known in Canmore's Rat's Nest Cave as the laundry chute.

Camrose RCMP are investigating a suspicious death after human remains were found in the debris of a farmhouse fire last month.

This fish tale was no flight of fancy. But WestJet officials initially weren't about to bite when told one of their Boeing 737s hit a fish in flight.

July 7, 2009 photo of 238-lbs of cocaine hidden in a truck en route to Canada. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested 32-year-old Calgary, Alberta resident Kevin Marocchi.

Alberta's request for extra health care dollars is not in the cards, unless it becomes a have-not province, a senior federal Conservative indicated Monday, as the provincial and federal Conservative caucuses met in Calgary.

The Fort Saskatchewan RCMP are requesting assistance to locate the following individual: Jerry DACH age: 64 years of Lamont, Alberta.

A 54-year old man from Stony Plain, west of Edmonton was killed Tuesday morning when the pickup truck he was driving collided with an ambulance on Highway 28, near Smoky Lake.

A construction worker collapsed and died while working on a bitumen refinery north of Edmonton, Alberta.

Clouds track south over Cougar Ridge in Calgary on Wednesday. A tornado watch for Calgary lasted for about four hours on Wednesday afternoon when three funnel clouds were spotted in and around the city.

Police are trying to explain why eight cows were shot and left in a field just outside a landowner's property in eastern Alberta.

Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach announces on Tuesday in Calgary the cancellation of liquor tax increases implemented in April.

A consumer co-operative based in the United Kingdom is joining a small First Nations community in Alberta in its fight to stop the expansion of oilsands development in the province.

An ambulance transporting a patient from Smoky Lake to Edmonton swerved off the road Tuesday, then over-corrected and slammed into a pickup truck.

Media are seen outside a home near 73 Street and 164 Avenue where a woman was found dead.

The number of building permits issued in Canadian municipalities "soared" in May, but economists warned Monday the flurry of activity won't last.

Gasoline prices this summer are expected to drop below their current levels, which already seem like a bargain compared to what Canadian motorists were forced to pay a year ago.

Strathcona RCMP may have to think like James Bond if they're going to catch a real-life Goldfinger who walked out of an Edmonton bank with over $200,000 in gold bars.