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Calgary Home With Trump Flags Egged and Hit With Dog Feces, Owners Say They Fear for Their Safety
Edmonton's New $80M Islamic Elementary School Opens, Billed as Canada's Largest Faith-Based Development
Calgary Motorcyclist Killed on McKnight Boulevard Identified as PUBG Mobile Creator Farooq Ahmad
Edmonton Police Clock 79-Year-Old at 147 km/h in 80 Zone on Whitemud Drive
The City of Edmonton Is Hiring 35 Roles Paying Up to $136,046, and Some Need No Degree
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Edmonton Woman Whose Dogs Killed 11-Year-Old Kache Grist Sentenced to Two Years of House Arrest
Crystal MacDonald has been sentenced to two years of house arrest for criminal negligence causing the death of 11-year-old Kache Grist, who was killed by her two Cane Corsos in April 2024. The Crown had sought five years in prison. The dogs had injured three people and killed two pets before the attack.
Edmonton Police Seek Last of Seven Suspects in Whyte Avenue Assault
A 36-year-old man was assaulted by a group of seven men near Whyte Avenue and 108 Street shortly before midnight on July 4. Six suspects have been arrested. Police are asking for help identifying the seventh, described as having large dark tattoos on his left forearm and left bicep.
Phil Darlington Leaves Global News Edmonton After Eight Years, Amid Corus Layoffs
Weather specialist Phil Darlington is no longer appearing on Global News Hour at 6, and his Global News bio now lists him as a former employee. Neither he nor Corus has said why. His exit follows a summer in which 28 Alberta positions were cut and Edmonton's technical production moved to Toronto.
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Calgary's Universities and Colleges Are Hiring 180+ Roles: U of C, Mount Royal, Bow Valley and SAIT
Four Calgary post-secondaries have more than 180 positions open between them. Mount Royal alone has 51, most of them campus jobs starting at $15.45 an hour. The University of Calgary lists roughly 100 more, including a supervisor role at the Olympic Oval.
Calgary Flames’ Final Saddledome Game Sells Out in Under a Minute
The Calgary Flames' final regular-season game at the Scotiabank Saddledome, against Vancouver on April 10, 2027, sold out within minutes of single-game tickets going on sale Monday. Fans who queued for half an hour beforehand still missed out.
Calgary Drug Bust: ALERT Seizes Record $1M in Cash and $1.2M in Drugs Including Fentanyl
ALERT's Calgary organized crime team searched a home in Skyview on July 30 and recovered more than $1 million in cash, believed to be the largest single seizure in the team's history, along with roughly 3,000 grams of suspected fentanyl, 7,000 grams of MDMA and 2,000 grams of methamphetamine. Two people are charged.
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City of Red Deer Is Hiring 19 Roles, Including Eight Police Jobs You Don't Need to Be an Officer For
The City of Red Deer has 19 positions open, from a Parks Labourer to a Maintenance Planner at $45.29 an hour. Eight of them are civilian roles inside the RCMP detachment, which the City hires directly. Several went up in the past week.
Lethbridge's Whoop-Up Drive Bridge Fire Closes Westbound Lane, Engineers Say Structure Is Safe
Eleven firefighters were called to the Whoop-Up Drive bridge at about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday for a fire in scaffolding and construction materials under the deck. Nobody was hurt. The City closed the outside westbound lane Thursday as a precaution while engineers finish their assessment.
Lethbridge's Chinook Regional Hospital Is Getting a $320M Cardiac and ICU Expansion
Alberta Infrastructure has committed $320 million to redevelop the cardiac catheterization lab at Chinook Regional Hospital and more than double critical care capacity. Intensive care goes from 16 bed spaces to 26 and the coronary care unit from 4 to 28, for 54 in total. Design work starts this month, construction in October 2027, completion at the end of 2031.
Grande Prairie Marks Overdose Awareness Day With 1,157 Purple Flags, One for Every Albertan Lost Last Year
Purple flags line the street outside the Montrose Cultural Centre for International Overdose Awareness Day, one for each of the 1,157 people who died of accidental opioid poisoning in Alberta in 2025. Twenty-four of those deaths were in Grande Prairie.
Labour Day 2026 Alberta: What's Open, What's Closed, and Whether You Get Paid
Labour Day falls on Monday, September 7 this year, the latest date it can land. Alberta has no law stopping retailers from opening on statutory holidays, so most stores will be. Here's what's actually closed, what runs on reduced hours, and how holiday pay works.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Mocks Canada With a West Edmonton Mall Submarine Joke as Trade War Escalates
Scott Bessent told CNBC that Canada can't fight a trade war with a country 13 times its size, asking whether it would "take their two submarines from the Edmonton Mall and sic them on us." The mall operated four submarines from 1985 to 2005. They were broken up for scrap in 2012.
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Jimmy John's Is Opening Its First Calgary Location Near the University of Calgary This Fall
Jollibee Edmonton: 10 New Restaurants Planned in Major Expansion
Shake Shack’s First Canadian Drive-Thru Opens in Calgary August 27 With Alberta-Exclusive Menu Items
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