Beyond Local

As the winter winds howled across the region in recent weeks, dropping temperatures to Arctic conditions, many of the community's homeless have been kept out of the elements, thanks to a temporary housing program organized by local groups.

CALGARY — A judge says the actions of a passenger in the hit-and-run death of a police officer may have been "moderate to minimal" but he still deserves a sentence of five years in prison.

Industry advocate suggests empathy and respect as HBO sets up shop

OTTAWA — Trucks jamming Ottawa streets shut down the core of the national capital on Saturday as a shoulder-to-shoulder crowd packed Parliament Hill to demand the federal Liberal government end vaccine mandates and COVID-19 restrictions, promising to

Alberta's top court has rejected a request to appeal a regulatory decision that denied permits for the Grassy Mountain coal mine in the province's Rocky Mountains.

DRUMHELLER, Alta. — RCMP say a man at a medium-security federal prison in southern Alberta has been charged in the death of a fellow inmate. Mounties say officers responded to a call Wednesday of a serious assault at Drumheller Institution.

If not for six perfect strangers, Andy Kirby may not be here today.

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he will travel to Washington to discuss issues including COVID-19 and pipelines with American leaders.

“Like some animals do, they just disappear and you don’t know where they go or what happened to them, so it’s kind of cool that this collar showed showed up 19 years later,” said Jesse Whittington, a wildlife research and monitoring ecologist with Banff National Park.

“There’s a lot of pro wrestlers out there, a lot of really good talent in Canada and they need places like this to wrestle so getting on these tours, going town to town and building their name is the stuff that’s going to make them successful.”