Alberta News

BROOKS — Canadian Pacific Railway crews are cleaning up a 17-car derailment south of Brooks. The train went off the tracks late Monday, with no injuries reported.

STONY PLAIN, ALTA. — One person is dead after a train collided with a vehicle in Stony Plain, Alberta. Parkland RCMP says they received a report of a collision between a train and a vehicle in Stony Plain at 3:56 p.m. local time.

EDMONTON — A police officer has been sent to hospital after a car crash in northeast Edmonton.

CALGARY — The Alberta NDP leadership race formally began Monday, with Calgary legislature member Kathleen Ganley the first to announce she wants the top job.

OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith defended her controversial new suite of proposed transgender youth policies Monday as federal Liberals accused her of pushing an anti-LGBTQ agenda.

CALGARY — The City of Calgary says it has received notice of a recall petition against Mayor Jyoti Gondek, but it adds that the petition would need more than a half-million names in the next 60 days to remove her from office.

CALGARY — Hockey Hall of Famer Lanny McDonald suffered a cardiac event Sunday after returning from the NHL's all-star game in Toronto.

EDMONTON — The first rule of being on a winning streak is you don’t talk about being on a winning streak. At least, that's the mantra inside the Edmonton Oilers dressing room.

Alberta and two prominent business groups have released formal responses to a proposed federal emissions cap as the province's environment minister was slated to meet with her federal counterpart.

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