Alberta News

CALGARY — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she expects the private sector to lead the way on potentially bringing nuclear power to the province, but her government would set up a Crown corporation if needed.

KYIV — A 23-year-old Calgary man who has been fighting for Ukraine faces a painful recovery after receiving burns to nearly 30 per cent of his body in a Russian drone strike on Canada Day.

EDMONTON — North America's oldest and largest theatre festival has set a record for most tickets sold in its 43-year history.

EDMONTON — The group representing Alberta teachers says hopes are high that a deal will be reached as mediated talks resume before the school year gets underway.

EDMONTON — Former Alberta politician Thomas Lukaszuk is a man on a not-so-lonely mission to keep Canada from splitting. "This has become a full-time job.

CALGARY — This year, municipal candidates in Calgary and Edmonton face a decision they've never had to make: whether to join a political party. But the choice represents more than the embrace or rejection of a new political system.

EDMONTON — It wasn't lost on some people marking Ukraine's Independence Day during a festival at Alberta's legislature grounds on Sunday that their loved ones were still defending their own sovereignty back home.

MISSISSAUGA — Aphrodite Deng almost stole the show at her first-ever CPKC Women's Open. The 15-year-old from Calgary shot a 2-over 73 in the fourth round to finish 4-under overall as the low amateur at the Canadian national women's championship.

EDMONTON — Alberta's wasteful purchase of children's pain and fever medicine three years ago helped inform the province's decision to charge some people $100 for a COVID-19 vaccine shot this fall, Premier Danielle Smith said Saturday.

WINNIPEG — Some trappers are expecting "catastrophic losses" to their food and financial security this year, as Canada's second-worst wildfire season on record sent swaths of remote boreal forest up in flames.