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Fort McMurray residents are looking for answers from Alberta's premier today on improvements to Highway 63.

More than 100 licensed practical nurses and health care aides are set to strike at an east Edmonton care centre Tuesday morning.

From motor vehicle crashes to serious falls and even a car plowing into a coffee house, emergency responders throughout the province were kept busy over the Victoria Day long weekend — as was to be expected.

Fourth-generation farmer Kirk Harrold is harvesting the sun to power his farm northeast of Edmonton with help from the Alberta Agriculture program "Growing Forward."...

The Alberta government will soon make an announcement on twinning Highway 63, says the province's transportation minister.

A year after he was fired from the Calgary Parking Authority, new details have emerged about former general manager Dale Fraser’s compensation during his tenure, and the payout he received after leaving the city agency.

A 12-year-old girl is dead after an ATV accident west of Edmonton.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says some bags of salads that are distributed to restaurants, hospitals and nursing homes need to be thrown in the garbage because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

CALGARY — Police are investigating after the body of a 23-year-old Lethbridge woman was found floating face down in a lake in Waterton Lakes National Park.

A combination of chilly temperatures and police enforcement made for a quiet start to the May long weekend at one popular campground west of Calgary.

If Alberta were its own country, it would be No. 3 in the world based on the United Nations' global measure of income, education and life expectancy, according to an Ottawa think-tank.

Two years after a grisly warning was spray painted on to a garage door belonging to a Calgary family, their home was pierced by six gunshots.

A chance to move a habituated bear from Canmore ended tragically after RCMP shot and killed a large black bear on Policeman’s Creek trail on Sunday.

City officials are telling a group of guerrilla gardeners who planted potatoes on a vacant lot in southwest Calgary to pull up stakes. Donna Clarke and several volunteers planted potatoes on a vacant lot next to her home on 17th Avenue S.W.

Health Minister Fred Horne says the Redford-government will “ensure the financial resources are available” to fund an independent public inquiry into medical system queue-jumping — but it’s unclear how much the probe will cost.

Alberta Premier Alison Redford is set to visit Fort McMurray Tuesday to talk with local politicians about ways to speed the twinning of Highway 63.

Calgary police sent out 10 units Monday morning to break up a large street brawl that erupted near a downtown lounge.

Alberta’s teachers are calling on the provincial government to ensure that grants for schools keep up with the annual inflation rate.

Better get used to dandelions, because, for the most part, they’re here to stay. While the city does spray to kill the sunny, yellow broadleaf weeds in parks and playing fields, staff are remaining picky about which areas are treated.

Fire crews are at the scene of a gas station in Calgary’s busy Beltline area after a minivan struck a gas pump, which started a fire and small explosion. The van struck the pump around 10:48 a.m.

It's been a deadly long weekend on the highways in northern Alberta, with two people dead in separate crashes near Grande Prairie.

Calgary's often bubbly mayor has a new portrait to chew over.

Alberta’s former top public safety official says he warned the government months before the Slave Lake fire that it was ill-equipped to protect the public in the event of a major disaster.

Police are investigating after gunshots were fired at a house in Monterey Park late Saturday night.