Alberta News

EDMONTON — The Alberta government says it has completed a plan to manage oilsands development in an area near the Fort McKay First Nation that supports traditional land uses and maintains its ecological integrity.

CALGARY — The cancellation of the Keystone XL oil export pipeline has resulted in a second oilsands company posting a multimillion-dollar impairment charge in its fourth quarter earnings report. Calgary-based Cenovus Energy Inc.

EDMONTON — The pastor of an Edmonton-area church that had been holding Sunday services with as many as 300 people has been charged with violating COVID-19 health rules.

EDMONTON — Public protest has persuaded the Alberta government to U-turn on a major section of its economic road map and reinstate a policy that has kept open-pit coal mines out of the Rocky Mountains for almost 45 years.

CALGARY — A snow penguin protest that generated buzz in Edmonton is now in Alberta's biggest city.

CALGARY — The Montreal Alouettes have signed Canadian offensive lineman David Foucault. The native of Lasalle, Que.

CALGARY — The Alberta Court of Appeal has ruled that a trial judge erred by not applying consecutive parole eligibilities for two men convicted in the slayings of three family members.

CALGARY — Police in Calgary are crediting advances in forensics for identifying and arresting a suspect in a cold case. Tara-Anne Landgraf was 37 when her body was discovered by a passerby in August 2007.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Monday that his province's state of emergency will not be extended, while authorities in Quebec, Alberta and Nova Scotia began lifting COVID-19 restrictions.

CALGARY — The Alberta Court of Appeal has upheld the sentence for a man who killed two people and their young grandson.