Alberta

A wildfire that forced 80,000 people in northern Alberta to flee more than a year ago has finally been extinguished.

The National Energy Board will hold hearings in British Columbia and Alberta to review proposals by Trans Mountain for its detailed pipeline corridor through the two provinces.

Calgary MP Darshan Kang resigned late Thursday from the Liberal caucus after sexual harassment allegations from a second woman became public.

Where some see only a jumble of rusted pipes and black tanks jutting from a weed-infested yard in a prairie grain field, Tyler Visscher sees opportunity.

Alberta conservative leadership candidate Jason Kenney is being offered help to set up a meeting with students who are in gay-straight alliances at school.

Canadian lawyers acting for the widow of an American special forces soldier have filed an application in Alberta seeking enforcement of a massive U.S. damages award against Omar Khadr.

Rebel's Charlottesville coverage has been followed by more than a week of questions about how conservative political parties engaged with the site in the past and how they will do so in the future.

A constituency association in southern Alberta is standing behind the area's embattled member of the legislature. who has resigned from his party's caucus following a bevy of negative headlines.

Three Canadian Conservative MPs, including the party leader, have moved to distance themselves from the far right website, The Rebel. Leader Andrew Scheer was not immediately available to comment.

The United Conservative Party MLA, described by the CBC as a "fiscal firebrand," is due back in court this September on the hit-and-run charge. He announced he was leaving his party on Tuesday night.

With a new United Conservative Party, a leadership race underway, and summer poll results that show they could win in 2019, right-wing Albertans are positively giddy, Sheila Pratt writes.

"I should have been more careful in reviewing them before signing off," said Alberta MLA Derek Fildebrandt."I take the custodianship of taxpayers money with the utmost seriousness."

Fildebrandt started out the day in a defensive posture, saying there was nothing wrong with renting out his subsidized Edmonton apartment through Airbnb when he wasn't using it. He later apologized.

Concerns over water and wildlife are heating up as a B.C. company gets ready to log part of the Highwood river valley in Kananaskis Country this winter.

A number of disgruntled PC’s have been talking about creating a new centrist party while those on the other side of the spectrum have already received approval on the name, Alberta Advantage Party.