3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (572+ words) New grants worth $15 million to help address family violence have arrived on the scene because of wise counsel from rural Alberta, the minister of children and family services says. Emergency family violence shelters in small-town Alberta “created the impetus” for…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (198+ words) COLD LAKE - Over 70 long-barrel firearms have been seized by RCMP following a search warrant of a vehicle in Cold Lake. On Aug. 19, at about 3:50 a.m., RCMP conducted a traffic stop on 50th Avenue in the City of Cold Lake. "As a result…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (195+ words) KANANASKIS – Thousands of dollars have been donated to help return the body of a woman found on Tent Ridge in Kananaskis Country back to the Philippines. As of Friday (Sept. 4), a GoFundMe campaign to fly Mariel Cendana Surat’s body to…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (136+ words) EDMONTON — The father of an 11-year-old boy killed by two large dogs says he doesn’t want the animals’ owner to go to prison. Wesley Grist made the comments today at a sentencing hearing in Edmonton for Crystal MacDonald. MacDonald was…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (237+ words) Alberta Special Events Equipment Rentals and Sales LTD. has pleaded not guilty to all ten charges in the 2024 fatal Busby tent collapse. The company pleaded not guilty on Wednesday, Aug. 26, in the Westlock Court of Justice to ten charges relating…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (459+ words) CANMORE – Crowds packed Quarry Lake and Rundle Forebay reservoir over two hot July weekends, spilling vehicles looking for a spot onto nearby roads and leading to 319 parking tickets. Municipal enforcement officers issued 188 tickets from July 17-19 and another 131 from July 24-26 during…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (271+ words) A person has died following an altercation with Airdrie RCMP outside the town of Irricana on Friday, July 3, Around 6:20 p.m., Airdrie RCMP were dispatched to an open-line 911 call on Highway 9 in Irricana. RCMP arrived on scene and located a male suspect....

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (152+ words) HALIFAX — Halifax police and volunteer search crews continued searching Sunday for a missing newborn after a woman who appeared to have just given birth showed up the night before at a local hospital. Halifax Regional Police were alerted at 9:40 p.m.,…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (447+ words) WINNIPEG — A man who spent decades behind bars for an axe murder in Manitoba has had his day parole revoked because he lied about being Métis. Jack Wayne Bender, 74, was granted day parole last month. He had been incarcerated since…...

4+ mon, 1+ day ago   (613+ words) Weinstein, the former Hollywood honcho who has been imprisoned on various sex crime convictions since 2020, watched quietly as the two sides made their closing arguments about whether he raped hairstylist and actor Jessica Mann in a New York hotel in…...