Edmonton, Canada Travel News

A petition signed by 3,500 Edmontonians urging city council to free Lucy the elephant from the Valley Zoo will be presented at City Hall on Tuesday.

Lucy is 34 years old. But a zoo in Edmonton won't let her retire. Lucy the elephant is sick.

The first non-American franchise of The Melting Pot chain is scheduled to open on the southside of Edmonton in late January.

Sunset Center's 2009-10 season was designed to bring an assorted collection of cultures to Carmel.

Irene Madoche is all smiles in crown, sash and funny glasses at a surprise party held in honour of her 50-year career at local radio stations.

Doug Sauve, owner of Fin's Seafood, with a piece of Pacific halibut: Entering its 16th year, Fin's has a staff of 28 and a 14,000-square-foot facility in Sherwood Park.

Former television game show host Bob Barker, left, meets Lucy the elephant for the first time at the Valley Zoo on Thursday, accompanied by elephant handler Jackie Buck.

The biggest surprise is how many Newfoundland accents I have heard. There truly is backwards time travel -- at least into the 1980s -- and it is called the West Edmonton Mall .

Edmonton, Alberta, Constables Keane Block, far left, and Tina Klenke talk to possible applicants on Wednesday at a job fair at Qwest Field and Events Center.

Season 8, Episode 19 of 30 : Western Canada Zay visits western Canada, a vast landmass that is home to a mere 9 million people.

It's a partnership that has last for years and continues to flourish with the 20th anniversary on the horizon.

Shelley Tookey's e-mail moniker is appropriately "almost-never-at-home." For the past 40 years, most weeknights, she's been hard at work in her Edmonton dance studio, Shelley's Dance Company.

Lucy with Maureen Anderson in March 2009. Anderson is a zoo antendant who spents a lot of time with Lucy trying to enrich her time at the zoo.

The father of slain eight-year-old Woodstock, Ont. girl Victoria Stafford will make his way into Sherwood Park Thursday, as he finishes up his cross-country bike tour in support of Child Find.

Lucy the elephant -- come on down! Bob Barker meets Lucy the elephant at Edmonton's River Valley Zoo yesterday.

Bob Barker goes on up to Edmonton Television host Bob Barker during his last taping of The Price is Right show held at the CBS television city studios on June 6, 2007 in Los Angeles.

A miniature 3D circus created by influential American sculptor Alexander Calder forms the centrepiece of an exhibition of his early works coming this fall to the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Edmonton's Valley Zoo says an independent veterinarian has ruled that moving the city's lone elephant could threaten the animal's life.

A miniature 3D circus created by influential American sculptor Alexander Calder forms the centrepiece of an exhibition of his early works coming this fall to the Art Gallery of Ontario.

At least one Alberta bar is trying to beat the recession - and a law that sets minimum prices to dissuade binge drinking - by offering students cold, hard cash to come in and wet their whistles.