Alberta News

CALGARY — Gabby Wood says her curling team is ready for anything this season after facing the No. 1 women's team in the world.

CALGARY — An analysis of race-based data shows Calgary police used a disproportionate amount of force against Indigenous and Black individuals in the city last year.

It's a dinosaur that roamed Alberta's badlands more than 70 million years ago, sporting a big, bumpy, bony head the size of a baby elephant. On Wednesday, paleontologists near Grande Prairie pulled its 272-kilogram skull from the ground.

Alberta Health Minister Adriana LaGrange says there's more work to be done before a new compensation contract for the province's doctors is finalized.

CALGARY — Calgary police fired stun guns at a man and punched him in the head before he was put in restraints and died, investigators with Alberta’s police watchdog said Wednesday.

EDMONTON — Increased Indigenous participation in Alberta's labour market could boost the province's GDP by between two and three percentage points, the equivalent of $8 billion to $11 billion annually, according to the findings of a new report.

Canada's wildfire season is on track to be the second largest in at least the past two decades, trailing only last year's record-breaking season, federal officials said Wednesday.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia economist Lars Osberg's latest book on the widening gap between the very richest and the rest argues the trend is creating disappointed Canadians prone to distrusting one another and their governments.

CALGARY — When electric utility BC Hydro launched a procurement process earlier this year seeking new sources of clean energy for the province's power grid, it included a specific requirement: projects must be at least 25 per cent owned by First Nati

EDMONTON — Premier Danielle Smith says she plans to reinforce the right to decide whether to receive a vaccination or other medical treatment in changes to the Alberta Bill of Rights.