Alberta News

Alberta didn't live up to the terms of a deal it has with the Northwest Territories to inform it about threats to its shared watershed after two major oilsands tailings spills, the territory's environment minister said Friday.

EDMONTON — A man who worked as a correctional program officer is accused of sexually assaulting an inmate at the federal Edmonton Institution for Women.

CALGARY — The Calgary Flames' trade deadline deals Friday included the NHL's first swap of brothers. The Flames got Nick Ritchie from the Arizona Coyotes and sent his older brother Brett to the desert.

EDMONTON — Ken Holland thinks the Edmonton Oilers got "pretty close" to fulfilling their trade-deadline wish list, despite being up against the salary cap.

CALGARY — A Calgary man charged with murder in the death of a woman whose burned body was found in a park last month had completed his sentence for a similar killing less than a year ago.

EDMONTON — Alberta’s health minister says he appreciates that a $1,400 round-trip car service trip by his top administrator looks pricey, but it’s actually value for money.

Calgary police say a 36-year-old man is facing two charges in a hate-motivated crime. Police say protesters disrupted a Reading with Royalty event early last month at the Seton Library in the city's southeast.

CALGARY — Suncor Energy Inc. has taken another step toward streamlining its business, signing a deal to sell its offshore assets in the North Sea to Equinor UK Ltd. in an agreement valued at about $1.2 billion.

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada says it tossed out an Alberta man's robbery-related convictions because the verdicts were unreasonable and cannot be supported by the evidence.

CALGARY — Parkland Corp. says it will not go ahead with its plan to build a stand-alone renewable diesel complex at its refinery in Burnaby, B.C.