Alberta News

CALGARY — Calgary police say a nine-year-old girl died after a multi-vehicle collision that happened on the morning of Boxing Day. Police responded to reports of a pharmacy robbery at Pharmasave Millrise at around 9 a.m.

EDMONTON — Naheed Nenshi is still looking to find his feet — and a seat in the legislature — after six months on the job as leader of Alberta's NDP.

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is eager to show that her government can finally put the pieces of a dismantled provincial health-care system back together again in the new year.

CALGARY — Jason Bradley spent 20 years of his career as ranch manager at a 50,000-acre grazing operation in west-central Alberta, so he understands why people react with skepticism to the idea of raising a herd of cattle on a working solar farm.

A forecaster says ripe avalanche conditions are expected to persist across much of British Columbia for the rest of the week.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — As Gwen Perry prepares for a Christmas without contact from her son, who is locked inside a notorious Newfoundland jail, she wants people to understand that many inmates need help, not incarceration.

EDMONTON — Police say a man is facing charges after a food bank truck was stolen in Edmonton two days before Christmas.

EDMONTON — RCMP say a man died after officers tried to arrest him on outstanding warrants near Edmonton. Police were called Monday to a rural home southeast of the city in Beaver County.

MONTREAL — Immigrants are increasingly choosing to stay in Quebec, according to a new report from Statistics Canada, but the same isn't true in the Atlantic region, which continues to lose newcomers to the rest of the country.

EDMONTON — Alberta's top court has dismissed an appeal by a man found guilty of stabbing his estranged wife 17 times.