Alberta

Veterans Affairs Minister and Alberta MP Kent Hehr said the advance payment from the federal−provincial disaster assistance agreement will be in Alberta’s hands by early July.

Beyond our table, the Ottawa River sparkled. We could not have picked a better place to talk about the forces of good and evil.

Residents of Fort McMurray were allowed to return earlier this month, four weeks after a wildfire cut the city in two and forced more than 80,000 residents to flee.

The pipeline has spilled an estimated 380,000 litres of light petroleum.

Travis Lane has been growing weed since high school, when his first pot plant swiftly withered and died in his bedroom closet. By the time he was 20, he had cultivated a small basement grow-operation.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley received a resounding vote of confidence at her NDP convention in Calgary on Saturday, after promising to move ahead with a minimum wage hike to $15/hour

The Alberta NDP are hosting their largest-ever convention in Calgary this weekend as the province reels from its slumping economy and the aftermath of the Fort McMurray wildfire.

As a huge wildfire raged, Alberta's labour market continued to struggle last month — job losses mounted, the unemployment rate surged and total hours worked hit their lowest mark in 30 years.

The Fort McMurray wildfire has disrupted global oil supplies even more than the ramped up attacks in May by militants in Nigeria, a U.S. government energy agency said on Thursday.

"Today there continues an existential threat to this industry," Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said in a speech at the Calgary Petroleum Club.

Most said the thought of dramatic changes occurring on Earth were overwhelming. Worse still, they felt powerless to change the course of history.

Alberta plans to continue the provincial wolf cull for the foreseeable future, but announced Wednesday that it intends to restore habitat to ease pressure on the endangered caribou

An out of control wildfire in northern Alberta has prompted Cenovus Energy Inc. to evacuate its Pelican Lake heavy oil facility.

The bill gives the province the power to levy a tax on home and business heating bills and on gasoline at the pumps.

Energy Minister Marg McCuaig−Boyd says the petrochemicals diversification program, which provides $500 million in royalty credits to the sector, has attracted local and international applicants.