Alberta News

EDMONTON — Before Canadian Khalid Hashi and his team began their work in Somalia, the country of about 15 million people who mostly speak Somali and Arabic only had information about COVID-19 in one language.

Edmonton forward Jesse Puljujarvi has been deemed eligible to resume all team activities, the Oilers said Saturday in a release.

CALGARY — The Western Hockey League says it has approval from the Saskatchewan government to play a 24-game East Division season in a hub in Regina starting next month.

CALGARY — A judge has reserved his decision on whether to grant bail to a man charged with first-degree murder in the hit-and-run death of a Calgary police officer. Police allege that Amir Abdulrahman, 19, was a passenger in an SUV that Sgt.

CALGARY — A court has been told that a man leading an inquiry into alleged foreign-funded anti-Alberta energy campaigns should be allowed to continue his work because accusations of bias are unfounded and his investigation is in the public interest.

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — A judge says a northern municipality must resume transferring emergency medical calls to a provincial dispatch centre by noon on Saturday.

CALGARY — A plan to spend $1.7 billion over the next seven years to develop the Odyssey underground mine to extend the life of the Canadian Malartic Mine's open pit operation in western Quebec has been approved by its owners.

EDMONTON — Alberta and the federal government say another $400 million in funding is available to help clean up inactive oil and gas sites in the province. The money includes $100 million for clean up in Indigenous communities.

CALGARY — A two-week trial has been scheduled in the tax evasion case of former Conservative member of Parliament Rob Anders. His lawyer appeared in Calgary court to enter not guilty pleas on his behalf. The trial is to start Oct. 25.

CALGARY — Canadian accounting and consulting firm MNP LLP says it will buy part of Deloitte's Canadian business in a new deal between two of the country's largest professional services firms.