Alberta News

Alberta has recorded its highest single-day increase in COVID-19 cases in almost three months with 678 new infections. Daily cases haven't reached levels that high since mid-May when the province was battling a third wave of the pandemic.

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — The puck drops Friday on a women’s world hockey championship more than two years after the last one. Who’s counting? American forward Kendall Coyne Schofield is, for one.

EDMONTON — A judge has issued an arrest warrant for a man who failed to appear in court Wednesday on charges related to an attack on two Muslim women in an Edmonton parking lot.

CALGARY — Farmers in the Maritimes are pitching in to help their drought-stricken Prairie counterparts facing a "devastating" situation.

CALGARY — Atco Ltd. says Dennis DeChamplain, chief financial officer of both Atco and Canadian Utilities Ltd., died unexpectedly from coronary failure on Monday.

CALGARY — Unvaccinated students and staff at three Alberta universities will have to get regular COVID-19 rapid tests to attend campus this fall.

CALGARY — The Calgary Stampeders' season has gone from bad to worse. Head coach Dave Dickenson said Tuesday the club is placing veteran quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell on the six-game injured list with a broken fibula.

LEDUC, Alta. — A Lac La Biche woman will be back in court later this week after a weekend assault in Leduc left a man dead. RCMP, Fire and EMS were called to the scene on Sparrow Drive near Airport Road at around 3 p.m.

CALGARY — Many Alberta post-secondary schools are not requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for students and staff even as others across the country are making different choices.

EDMONTON — Alberta's police watchdog says a suspect in an alleged hostage taking was alone when he was fatally shot by officers during a weekend standoff at an oilfield battery site.