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Alberta's Progressive Conservative party this weekend selected its three candidates for a provincewide Senate election to be held this spring.

The family of Whitney Houston, who died suddenly this weekend, has issued a statement calling her death both "devastating" and an "unimaginable tragedy," just as news broke that Houston's daughter was taken to hospital.

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

Whitney Houston was found dead in the bathtub of her Beverly Hills hotel room, ABC news reported Sunday citing paramedics who had rushed to the singer's aid but found her "lifeless." Otto Von Bismarck, who listed smoking 100,000 cigars and drinking 5,000 bottles of champagne among his lifetime goals, must be spinning in his grave.

Lambton County Warden Steve Arnold says economic development officials are looking at all the opportunities available since the Keystone XL pipeline project was rejected by the United States.

Lyndon Rush, from Humboldt, Sask., reacts to his run following the four-man World Cup bobsled event in Calgary, Alta., Saturday, Feb.

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Twenty-eight people were injured, three critically, when a Red Arrow passenger bus enroute to Edmonton from Fort McMurray rolled over Friday afternoon near Redwater, Alta.

RCMP say alcohol and excessive speed were factors in a crash early Saturday morning that claimed the life of a 17-year-old Stettler, Alta., girl.

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.

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.

Mexican government officials called the man accused of beating Sheila Nabb a "monster" but said the resort city of Mazatlan remains a safe place for Canadian tourists.

Moving data to the cloud is a trend that will continue to spread, and it's not only a solution for large enterprises.

Alberta Premier Alison Redford and Deputy Premier Doug Horner applaud after Finance Minister Ron Liepert delivers his budget speech in Edmonton on Thursday.

The man wanted by RCMP in the shooting of two officers earlier this week was about to turn himself in when police, eavesdropping on his phone call to his parents, arrested him first, his best friend told CBC News on Friday.

A clearer picture is emerging of a chain of events that began with an alleged domestic dispute last week and culminated in a shootout that left two police officers wounded, one man dead and another on... No new taxes.

No new taxes. No hike in sin taxes. More money for the severely disabled. More money for education.

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

It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime for a nine-year-old Calgary boy, his father and his uncle on a month-long sailing adventure from Mexico to the Hawaiian Islands.

Next to them is the assembly line, where dozens of 18-metre-long mobile housing units are rapidly taking shape, with workers using overhead cranes to raise completed walls and roofs into place.