Beyond Local

EDMONTON — Alberta’s police oversight agency says an Edmonton police officer is facing assault charges after a use-of-force investigation.

Stettler RCMP stated they will continue the search of Buffalo Lake for missing Airdrie resident 17-year-old Ajay Purba.

LETHBRIDGE, Alberta (AP) — Bill Peters has been hired as the coach of the Western Hockey League’s Lethbridge Hurricanes. It emerged four years ago that he directed racial slurs at a player while working in the minors.

Data supplied by the department upon request say 43,046 chargers have been funded through both programs, but only 7,644 are working.

The country's biggest airline confirmed Wednesday it will no longer offer non-stop flights from Calgary to Ottawa, Halifax, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Cancun, or Frankfurt as of the end of October due to ongoing fleet and crew constraints.

Environment Canada says 35.3 mm of rain fell in Banff as of Aug. 27 compared to the monthly average of 60.1 mm.

There was four times the amount of carfentanil present in waste water in June compared to earlier in the year, said Dr. Monty Ghosh, an internist, addictions specialist and assistant professor at the University of Calgary and University of Alberta.

Some Alberta communities are pushing back against the provincial government's six-month pause on approvals of new renewable energy projects.

“We might be (in) a bit of a quiet relief rally for the last week of the month, but probably setting up for some more fireworks in the next few weeks.” 

Okotoks' Jaica Tipper is trading in albums pressed decades before she was born as the new owner of the Beatnik Bus.