The Saw Creek blaze that triggered evacuations in and around the community of Lytton, B.C., is now being held, the provincial wildfire service reported on Tuesday.
LETHBRIDGE - Police and a university in southern Alberta were pulled Tuesday into the investigation of a fatal police shooting in Montreal after the accused gunman was identified as a student at the school.
EDMONTON - Mike Babcock returned to the NHL’s coaching ranks Tuesday, bringing a Stanley Cup and a checkered past to the Edmonton Oilers team desperate to win it all in the Connor McDavid era.
CALGARY - A dispute that began with snarky social media posts between Alberta's premier and Calgary's mayor escalated Tuesday into a full on government-to-government standoff.
MONTREAL - Messages of sympathy and support poured into a multicultural Montreal neighbourhood on Tuesday, as locals reflected on a horrific shooting outside a hotel from one day earlier that left three people dead.
A Montreal police officer was shot dead and another was injured when they responded to a 911 call on Monday morning about a shooter at a hotel in the city's Côte-des-Neiges district.
VICTORIA - Criminal charges of robbery and assault have been laid after separate attacks in Victoria, including the beating of an imam, although police say the crimes were random.Ìý
A kayaker has drowned in British Columbia's Okanagan Lake, while another is presumed dead after being swept away in the Columbia River near Castlegar, both within a two-day span.
SASKATOON - Police have identified a Jet Ski rider who went missing in the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon over the weekend as a 32-year-old man visiting from Mexico.
DELTA - Canadian border authorities have seized more than half a tonne of opium found hidden in industrial paper rolls in a cargo container in a Metro Vancouver port site.Ìý
SQUAMISH - Police in British Columbia's Sea to Sky region are again urging backcountry users to be prepared after five rescue calls this weekend, including one fatality.
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EDMONTON - Alberta is lowering the minimum price for booze following a weekend tit-for-tat social media sniping exchange between Premier Danielle Smith and Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas.
REGINA - A man who witnessed a shooting that left two Mounties seriously hurt in a Saskatchewan city says the alleged gunman got into a fight with his neighbour over a shed before police arrived.
Three prison guards in British Columbia were sent to hospital, one needing chest compressions in the ambulance, after inhaling what they believed to be fentanyl powder that was "sprayed" around a cell by a combative inmate during a fight with…
WINNIPEG - Manitoba’s government says it is eyeing new rules to mandate unit pricing in grocery stores in order to shine a light on producers who reduce the size of a product while keeping the price the same.
OTTAWA - A trustee for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights has resigned over an upcoming exhibit at the Winnipeg institution about displaced Palestinians.
VANCOUVER - An evening cricket match in Vancouver's Kitsilano neighbourhood was interrupted by a man who used bear spray on the players, then broke a man's arm in a subsequent fight.Ìý
VANCOUVER - The long road to recovery from a broken leg to playing in his first FIFA World Cup match has been a learning experience for defender Moïse Bombito.
SURREY - Police in Surrey, B.C., say a trafficking investigation has led to the discovery of large quantities of illicit drugs, charges against a 24-year-old man, and the deportation of two others.Ìý
Parks Canada crews are at work in Alberta's bat caves, spreading a blend of bacteria to try to save the flying night mammals from a deadly, and accelerating, fungal infection.
EDMONTON - Heavy rains and localized flooding in and around the city of Edmonton have officials asking residents to conserve water as their systems reach capacity.
LYTTON - British Columbia's wildfire service says a wildfire burning near Lytton has been growing away from communities, and that weather has been helping in the fight against it.
CALGARY - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says "the fun police have struck" Calgary while the federal Opposition Leader says the city is "smothering country music culture" after it announced it's dialing down the sound for the Calgary Stampede…
OTTAWA - Delaney Baie Pridham scored in the third minute as the Ottawa Rapid extended their unbeaten streak to three games with a 1-1 draw against AFC Toronto on Sunday in Northern Super League action.
EDMONTON - Hobbled by more than just low oil prices, Alberta's NDP finance minister limped into the legislature in a cast to deliver a devastating budget.
EDMONTON - A survey of spending over the last fiscal year by Alberta's provincial politicians indicates taxpayers are footing the bill on everything from bison steak dinners to a pack of gum.
CALGARY - Ten years ago this week, the United Kingdom voted to quit the European Union, setting off years of political turmoil and economic pain that persist to this day.Ìý
CALGARY - The Saskatchewan Roughriders prevailed on a blustery night and repelled a late Calgary Stampeders push in a 40-37 overtime win Saturday in the CFL.
Judith Urquhart said she's doing what she has to do to remain focused and prepare for the possibility that a wildfire could force her to evacuate, five years after her home was destroyed by a different blaze.
EDMONTON - An Alberta man who took up dancing on street corners as therapy following a head injury has attracted the ire of Mounties but also support from people who feel his moves bring nothing but smiles.
Alberta's Opposition NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi says Premier Danielle Smith should fire her office's executive director for posting a social media diatribe criticizing First Nations chiefs.
CALGARY - Four months to the day from an upcoming referendum on whether Alberta should stay in Canada, about 35 people rallied Friday at a Calgary hotel ballroom to formally launch a campaign to convince voters it's time for the province to s…
VANCOUVER - The operator of the Red Chris gold and copper mine in northwestern B.C. says it is applying safety lessons learned from a collapse last year that trapped three workers to a planned expansion of underground operations.
