Alberta News

CALGARY — Air Canada is slashing six major routes out of Calgary this winter, in part due to an industry-wide pilot shortage that the carrier says threatens its "overall operational stability.

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is blasting federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault over comments he made about capping emissions.

CALGARY — Researchers say the amount of opioids and other illicit drugs found in a monitoring of Alberta wastewater jumped in June.

LETHBRIDGE, Alberta (AP) — Bill Peters has been hired as the coach of the Western Hockey League’s Lethbridge Hurricanes, the former Calgary Flames coach's first job in North America since it emerged four years ago that he directed racial slurs at a p

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — Bill Peters is being given a second chance by the Lethbridge Hurricanes, but not by the former player who was the target of his racism.

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — Mounties say a mother and son who disappeared while rafting in southern Alberta have been found safe.

Some Alberta communities are pushing back against the provincial government's six-month pause on approvals of new renewable energy projects.

CALGARY — New documents suggest the Crown corporation behind the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is facing an uphill battle to finish the project on schedule in spite of mounting internal and external pressure to do so.

CLARESHOLM, Alta. — Mounties say an Ontario woman is dead after a plane crashed in a southern Alberta field. RCMP say emergency crews responded to a call Monday of a plane crash near Claresholm, Alta., about 130 kilometres south of Calgary.

BANFF, Alta. — RCMP in Banff, Alta., say the body of an overdue hiker from Calgary has been found on a mountain near the national park's townsite.