Alberta News

CALGARY — Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley has defended her party's proposal to increase corporate taxes, saying it would provide a "stable, thoughtful" economic plan for the province.

CALGARY — Five days after saying a United Conservative candidate who compared transgender students to feces in food could be given a second chance, leader Danielle Smith has repeated that the woman wouldn't sit in caucus if her party forms government

EDMONTON — Officials in Alberta say there has been significant progress in the fight against wildfires in the province due to rain, cooler weather and the efforts of firefighters.

EDMONTON — Dozens of people gathered at a church Wednesday to bid an emotional farewell to a mother and her child who were stabbed to death outside an Edmonton school earlier this month.

CALGARY — National linebacker Jordan Herdman-Reed has signed with the Calgary Stampeders. The 29-year-old has played in 69 regular-season CFL games over five seasons with the B.C. Lions and Saskatchewan Roughriders.

CALGARY — United Conservative Leader Danielle Smith says her party would bring in legislation to prevent government from increasing personal or business taxes without approval from Albertans.

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CALGARY — It's one of the key issues at the ballot box in the Alberta election, but the two main rivals vying to run the province's sprawling health system can't agree on the diagnosis, let alone the cure. The provincial election is on Monday.

EDMONTON — Wildfire officials say more than 10,000 square kilometres of land has burned in Alberta this year as dozens of wildfires continue across the province.

CALGARY — The Calgary Flames promoted from within and gave former player Craig Conroy his first job as an NHL general manager. The Flames introduced the 51-year-old from Potsdam, N.Y., at packed news conference Tuesday at the Saddledome.