Alberta News

BONNYVILLE, Alta. — Police have laid charges in the fatal shooting of two men on a rural road in eastern Alberta last week. Anthony Bilodeau, who is 31 and from Glendon, Alta.

EDMONTON — Alberta's chief medical officer is warning of prescription-dispensing abuse for drugs that are possibly, but not conclusively, linked to fighting COVID-19.

Calgary's mayor says organizers have done an extraordinary job transforming a downtown convention centre into a temporary homeless shelter during the COVID-19 pandemic, but he believes hotel rooms would have been a better option.

CALGARY — Police in Calgary are looking into alleged threats connected to COVID-19. Police say a Chinese restaurant received an anonymous threat on March 14 that is believed to have been motivated by the outbreak.

SUNDRE, Alta. — A man and a woman are dead in what appears to be a murder-suicide in central Alberta. Sundre RCMP responded to a report of sudden deaths at a rural home near the town, which is about 100 kilometres northwest of Calgary.

EDMONTON — The Alberta Medical Association says it's irresponsible for the provincial government to go ahead with its health-care restructuring as doctors battle the COVID-19 pandemic. Association president Dr.

EDMONTON — Alberta's education minister, in her first public comments since laying off more than 20,000 people in an email on the weekend, resisted Opposition calls to reverse her decision.

Jennifer Auger wants to continue the legacy of her husband after his death from complications of COVID-19 by opening a group home for at-risk youth in their northern Alberta community. Shawn Auger, a father of three, died Monday at the age of 34.

CALGARY — A final investment decision clearing the way for construction of the long-delayed Keystone XL Pipeline was greeted with relief on Tuesday by an Alberta oilpatch where production has grown faster than pipeline capacity.

CALGARY — Imperial Oil Ltd. is reducing its spending for this year by $1 billion, including a $500-million cut to its capital spending plan as it deals with the COVID-19 pandemic and crash in oil prices.