Edmonton News

An Air Canada Boeing 767-300, registration C-FCAE performing flight AC-898 from Edmonton,AB to London Heathrow,EN with 142 people on board, was enroute at FL360 over the Hudson Bay at about N61.3 W90 at about 06:30Z, when the aircraft encountered turbulence causing injuries to a flight attendant, who was unable to continue duties.

Police say a female prisoner used a lens from a pair of eyeglasses to take a fellow prisoner hostage at the Edmonton courthouse.

As an adult he became famous as Kai, the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker, his celebrity taking a turn toward notoriety when he was arrested in Philadelphia last week and charged with killing a New Jersey lawyer.

Natasha Stewart, niece of Barry Stewart who was stomped to death by his cellmate in the Edmonton Remand Centre, is appalled that the man who killed her uncle is suing the province.

Firefighters continue to fight a wildfire in north Strathcona County where high winds are carrying embers up to 500 metres and lighting new fires.

Distance wasn't the only difficulty Susann and Hajime Sakaguchi have had to overcome in the course of their own love story.

While Zazulak says the RCMP have evacuated a number of homes in the area and are not yet allowing residents to return home, Parkland County has stated via Twitter that no evacuations have taken place.

Mandel, 67, was expected to announce his plans last month during a state-of-the-city address, but instead lashed out at the what he called a penny-pinching and short-sighted provincial government.

An amusement park worker has spent more than two days aboard a Ferris wheel - smashing the world record for the longest ride.

A decade after Alberta's mad cow crisis, there's been a sharp decline in the number of cattle producers in Alberta, due in part to an aging population, drought, rising feed and labour costs, the rising value of the dollar and BSE.

Nigel Wright has resigned as Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief of staff, following revelations he wrote a $90,000 cheque to repay improperly claimed housing expenses for Senator Mike Duffy.

Business owners in Pigeon Lake are looking forward to this year's season after most of the provincial campground closed early last year for renovations.

A group of six campers was rescued Sunday morning after becoming lost when they wandered away from their campsite near Gorge Creek Trail.

One woman sustained life-threatening injuries in the incident that started in the parking lot of a nearby McDonalds around 6 p.m. Police say a man asked for money from two people, stabbing one of them.

The six-year-old Black Angus was one of a small herd Peaster had bought the year before for his grain farm and feedlot near Wanham, in Alberta's Peace Country.

Wildrose Official Opposition Leader Danielle Smith has requested the RCMP conduct a criminal investigation into the actions of Edmonton-Manning MLA Peter Sandhu.

Mild temperatures and sunny skies brought thousands of people to 104th Street on Saturday as the City Market moved outside for the first day this year.

A 25-year-old Red Deer woman was killed on Saturday when she was thrown from a vehicle that rolled on the QEII Highway near Ponoka.

Residents of the Cambridge Lofts on Jasper Avenue have started a petition to block a strip club from opening up in the building.

The man who was found not criminaly responsible for stomping his cellmate to death at the Edmonton Remand Centre is now suing centre staff.