Edmonton Sun - Local (3 hours ago)
Do the Oilers need a new head coach? Vote in our daily poll! Regarding Tuesday’s Sun front page headline, the police are going to go where the criminals are to improve public safety. That’s pure genius. How did they ever come up with such a brilliant idea? Glenn Krause (It’s so crazy, it just might […]
ReadCityNews - Calgary (4 hours ago)
Calgary police handed out more than 150 tickets over two weekends as officers increased enforcement against dangerous driving associated with car meets held across the city. Police say many of the violations were tied to gatherings promoted on social media, where drivers engage in risky behaviour including excessive speeding, stunting and operating...
ReadCityNews - Calgary (5 hours ago)
A child is in hospital with serious injuries after they were struck by a truck while riding a scooter on Tuesday afternoon. Emergency crews were called to the community of Taradale in northeast Calgary around 4:45 p.m. for reports of someone being struck by a vehicle. Calgary police say a child who was riding a […]
ReadCBC - Edmonton (5 hours ago)
A major spring storm with strong winds is expected to hit east-central and southeastern Alberta starting Thursday. A special weather statement issued by Environment Canada on Tuesday noted that the storm is predicted to bring extreme winds, with gusts up to 100 km/h anticipated.
ReadCityNews - Calgary (6 hours ago)
Edmonton firefighters were needed to put out the flames after a crash between a car and the LRT in Edmonton that sent one person to hospital Tuesday afternoon. Edmonton Fire Rescue Services tells CityNews a Tesla was on fire in the aftermath of the collision near the Whitemud Drive and 66/75 Street overpass. Edmonton police […]
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (7 hours ago)
Edmonton police are asking for the public’s help to identify five suspects in a late-April robbery at a jewelry store in Bonnie Doon Shopping Centre. Police said officers responded at roughly 3:20 p.m. on April 27 to a report of a robbery at a jewelry store at the Bonnie Doon Shopping Centre near 83 Street […]
ReadCityNews - Calgary (7 hours ago)
Imperial Oil is conducting engagement on plans for parcels of land in southeast Calgary that used to be the site of one of its former refineries The land in Lynnwood Ridge was an industrial refinery in the 1920s and became a residential neighbourhood in the 1980s after the City of Calgary purchased the land. However, […]
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (7 hours ago)
Homelessness in Edmonton is a humanitarian disaster. Nearly 4,000 Edmontonians lack permanent housing and suffer through deplorable living conditions on our streets. Edmonton's unhoused population doubled after the pandemic, mainly due to sharp rent hikes and evictions. Emergency room visits, frostbite amputations, and deaths of houseless people...
ReadCityNews - Calgary (8 hours ago)
A brazen daylight shooting outside a busy northeast Calgary grocery store has left an innocent bystander in hospital and a city councillor outraged. Emergency crews were called to the parking lot of the North Hill Co-op on 16 Avenue NE around 7:50 p.m. for reports of a shooting. Officers arrived to find two men suffering […]
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (8 hours ago)
This in from the NHL’s top insider Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman, his take on the Vegas Gold Knights blocking the Edmonton Oilers from negotiating with fired Vegas head coach Bruce Cassidy. “It’s weird,” Friedman said today on the Fan Hockey Show in Toronto. “There’s no question about it. Let a guy go and move on. That’s […]
ReadCBC - Edmonton (10 hours ago)
"I can confirm David Parker is not co-operating with the investigation and he has refused to sign a statutory declaration confirming that he will comply with my direction to cease and desist with respect to the list of electors,” chief electoral officer Gordon McClure said in a statement on Tuesday.
ReadCBC - Edmonton (10 hours ago)
Keyera Corp. has closed its deal to buy the Canadian natural gas liquids business of U.S. firm Plains All American Pipeline LP despite a challenge launched by the federal competition regulator. The company says it completed the acquisition Tuesday for $5.3 billion including closing adjustments.
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (10 hours ago)
NHL insider Frank Seravalli was on the Kevin Karius show on Edmonton Sports Talk Radio this morning, digging into the Vegas Golden Knights withholding permission from the Edmonton Oilers talking to coach Bruce Cassidy, whom Vegas fired late in the 2025-26 regular season. Seravalli raised the spectre that Vegas is so far blocking Edmonton’s...
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (12 hours ago)
A senior woman from Edmonton is dead from injuries she sustained after she was inadvertently struck by her own car on Sunday afternoon. Edmonton police say they responded at roughly 2:30 p.m. on May 10 to a report of an incident at a home near 142 Street and 92A Avenue where a 65-year-old woman was […]
ReadCityNews - Calgary (14 hours ago)
The founder of a pro-separatist group in Alberta that's been accused of publishing the personal information of nearly three million Albertans to an online database is allegedly "not cooperating” with at least one of the investigations into the breach. Elections Alberta, which is one of three bodies investigating the alleged leak of the province's...
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (14 hours ago)
This in from NHL insider Frank Seravalli, news that the Vegas Golden Knights are for now withholding permission for the Edmonton Oilers to negotiate with coach Bruce Cassidy, whom the Knights fired late in the 2025-26 regular season. “League sources say Oilers have sought permission to interview Bruce Cassidy as they contemplate significant...
ReadCityNews - Calgary (15 hours ago)
A former Winnipeg hockey coach who lured a teen player into an inappropriate sexual relationship by exploiting past trauma was sentenced Monday to six years in prison. Provincial court Judge Jerilee Ryle told Madison Biluk the harm she caused demanded denunciation. “The offending was not a one-time lapse in judgment. It persisted for 16 months...
ReadCBC - Edmonton (17 hours ago)
Public health officials have been clear that the hantavirus outbreak is not another COVID-19. But despite reassurances from experts in Canada and abroad that the vuris is not easily transmissible between humans, news of the passengers exposed on the MV Hondius cruise ship has triggered memories of the COVID-19 pandemic and fears of mass infections...
ReadCalgary Herald - Local (17 hours ago)
With the war in the Middle East threatening the global supply of oil, most Canadians appreciate the urgent need for a new pipeline to our West Coast and others to the east — entirely within Canada. Albertans are understandably frustrated after a decade of Liberal policies that have blocked access to world markets for oil […]
ReadCalgary Sun - Local (18 hours ago)
Advertise who foot the bill Since Alberta Oil will be paying the entire cost of the ALTO High Speed Rail Line between Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto, can we at least, please, get some return for our investment, with an advertising message along the side of the train? I'm thinking of the following message in large […]
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (19 hours ago)
It’s time, Danielle, to deal with those pesky cities. You know: those with elected mayors, councils, and school boards who dare to think they can plan their roads, manage their libraries, and seek federal funding to fill the budget holes you’ve skilfully created. Worst, perhaps, is they seek to promote education which encourages critical...
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (22 hours ago)
It’s well known that many Edmonton Oilers aces were playing hurt in the first round against the Anaheim Ducks, but it’s now clear we can add Evan Bouchard to that list. Late in the second period of Game 1, big Ducks forward Cutter Gauthier bashed Bouchard into the boards, with Bouchard’s face hitting the glass. […]
ReadCityNews - Calgary (A day ago)
A man is dead, and another is fighting for his life in hospital after a shooting in the parking lot of a northeast Calgary grocery store on Monday night. Emergency crews were called to the parking lot of the North Hill Co-op on 16 Avenue NE around 7:50 p.m. for reports of shots fired. When […]
ReadCityNews - Calgary (A day ago)
Books that were banned from school libraries by the Alberta government after being deemed inappropriate for children were flying off the shelves at a recent Calgary book sale. The books sold out within the first weekend of the Calgary Reads Big Book Sale at the Calgary Curling Club after being pulled from some Alberta school […]
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (A day ago)
NHL insider Frank Seravalli was on Oilers Now with Bob Stauffer on Monday, repeating his prediction that the Edmonton Oilers will likely replace head coach Kris Knoblauch. Seravalli fleshed out his opinion from last week with a detailed critique of Knoblauch’s work, essentially that Knoblauch picked the wrong assistant coaches and failed to move...
ReadEdmonton Sun - Local (A day ago)
Should the Forever Canadian question be put to voters? Vote in our daily poll! I see the Premier is at it again. She has now decided to give the Parliamentary secretaries another $500 per month for travelling expenses along with their salary of approximately $125,000 per year plus a gold-plated medical card. Yet the premier […]
ReadCityNews - Calgary (A day ago)
A weekend tragedy east of Calgary has renewed scrutiny of a rural intersection long considered dangerous by those who live nearby. Two Calgary women are dead following a two-vehicle crash that happened Sunday morning at the intersection of Highway 9 and Highway 564, just east of Delacour. A man and child in the same vehicle […]
ReadCBC - Calgary (A day ago)
A Calgary man who left his ex-girlfriend disabled after attacking her with a sword and cutting off three of her fingers, has been placed on 30 court-ordered conditions, including an ankle monitor, designed to protect the community following the end of his prison sentence.
ReadCityNews - Calgary (A day ago)
A health warning has been issued for possible measles exposure at a Southern Alberta hospital last week. Alberta Health Services (AHS) says a person with measles was in the Claresholm Hospital emergency room on May 6, between 1:30 p.m. and 8:15 p.m., potentially exposing others who were there at the same time. Anyone who was […]
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (A day ago)
A urinal is a beautiful thing, not only for its stately form, white brilliance, and soothing sounds, but also for its utility. So you can imagine my disappointment when I went to use the washroom at the newly renovated pavilion at Hawrelak Park. There is no men's or women's, only a huge room with about […]
ReadCityNews - Calgary (A day ago)
Tickets for the 113th Grey Cup in Calgary this fall are now on sale. The CFL championship game is happening at McMahon Stadium on Nov. 15, and will cap off a week of football‑themed festivities across Stampede Park. It’s the sixth time Calgary has hosted the game, and the first time since 2019. Tickets are […]
ReadCityNews - Calgary (A day ago)
The Alberta government has shot down a request for a raise from the province’s top elections official. Chief electoral officer Gordon McClure told a legislature committee that he has faced an “unprecedented” workload since he took the job in 2024. He asked for a three per cent pay bump. McClure and Elections Alberta have facilitated more...
ReadCalgary Herald - Local (A day ago)
Alberta is running out of water. The province’s touted new data centres will need lots of water in addition to their energy requirements. So, what to do? Build a dam on the South Saskatchewan River north and east of Medicine Hat. Take a look at Lake Diefenbaker. Way to go, Saskatchewan, 1958. Premier, if you […]
ReadCityNews - Calgary (2 days ago)
Six men have been charged with intentionally damaging vehicles during private sales across Alberta with the goal of purchasing them at a cheaper price. The Edmonton Police Service alleges the buyers would show up in a group of two or three and distract the seller while damaging or tampering with the vehicle. The suspects then […]
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (2 days ago)
Come for the mystery, stay for the absolutely excellent last line. A new play by Calgary's James Odin Wade at Workshop West Playwrights' Theatre combines taut dialogue, intense emotion and a gripping narrative that keeps the audience on the edge of its seat until the surprising final scene. It's a satisfying end to the WWPT […]
ReadCalgary Sun - Local (2 days ago)
Road to nowhere Every few hundred years when the world is in desperate need of a courageous visionary leader, one such leader suddenly appears from the shadows and takes charge on the world stage. With vigour and determination, he proclaims a new world order must be constructed and the old order pushed aside. His vision […]
ReadCBC - Edmonton (2 days ago)
Go Public has learned of more than 30 passengers who were denied compensation after WestJet cancelled flights and blamed safety-related maintenance. Flight data suggests the airline swapped in aircraft requiring maintenance shortly before those cancellations — a practice the regulator called out four years ago.
ReadCBC - Edmonton (2 days ago)
Spring seeding is underway and as farmers spend long hours in the tractor planting their crops, they're facing hefty increases to the cost of fuel and diesel. They're already concerned about the 2027 crop year year too, since many will be making those large fuel and fertilizer purchases in the months ahead.
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (2 days ago)
There’s been a volcanic eruption of rumours around the future of Edmonton Oilers head coach Kris Knoblauch but will the Oilers pull the trigger and bring in a new coach? I suspect that’s going to happen, and, as much as I hate to say this, I see few other obvious paths for the Oilers to […]
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (2 days ago)
The oft-repeated motto, “Once an Oiler, Always an Oiler” hits differently just now, with the Edmonton Oilers crashing out of the 2026 playoffs, but three Edmonton Oilers alumni killing it. One of the three is likely to win a Stanley Cup in his new NHL home next month. Brett Kulak, Taylor Hall and Ryan McLeod […]
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