Multiple people are facing charges following an RCMP investigation into multiple scams.The RCMP's Southern Alberta District Crime Reduction Unit (SAD CRU), in partnership with Raymond RCMP and the Western Canada Lottery Corporation, investigated a series of reported frauds involving a technique called the "Manual ...

VULCAN, AB - A man has been arrested following an RCMP investigation into stolen vehicles in Vulcan.On April 7, 2024, Vulcan RCMP responded to a complaint of a stolen vehicle at a property in rural Vulcan County. Upon arrival, police say a man fled the property in a stolen GMC Sierra pick up truck and was arrested shor...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Henry Armstrong Award, which aims to support Canadian Indigenous musicians, is returning for its third iteration.The award is in the form of a $10,000 bursary and a 12-month mentorship program, which helps develop, elevate and support the diverse talents in the Canadian Indigenous music community.M...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A central Alberta man has been charged by the Lethbridge Police Service (LPS).The LPS says on April 15, 2024, members of the Crime Suppression Team responded to a report of fraud after a 75-year-old woman was the victim of an alleged grandparent scam.According to police, the victim had been contacted b...

Multiple people are facing charges following an RCMP investigation into multiple scams.The RCMP's Southern Alberta District Crime Reduction Unit (SAD CRU), in partnership with Raymond RCMP and the Western Canada Lottery Corporation, investigated a series of reported frauds involving a technique called the "Manual ...

VULCAN, AB - A man has been arrested following an RCMP investigation into stolen vehicles in Vulcan.On April 7, 2024, Vulcan RCMP responded to a complaint of a stolen vehicle at a property in rural Vulcan County. Upon arrival, police say a man fled the property in a stolen GMC Sierra pick up truck and was arrested shor...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Henry Armstrong Award, which aims to support Canadian Indigenous musicians, is returning for its third iteration.The award is in the form of a $10,000 bursary and a 12-month mentorship program, which helps develop, elevate and support the diverse talents in the Canadian Indigenous music community.M...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A central Alberta man has been charged by the Lethbridge Police Service (LPS).The LPS says on April 15, 2024, members of the Crime Suppression Team responded to a report of fraud after a 75-year-old woman was the victim of an alleged grandparent scam.According to police, the victim had been contacted b...

COALDALE, AB - Officers are on scene of what they describe as a "serious motor vehicle collision."The Coaldale RCMP says it occurred on Highway 845 south of Highway 519 on Nolan's Bridge.Three vehicles were reportedly involved in the collision, although further details are not available at this time.Traffic c...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Researchers at the University of Lethbridge (U of L) will use half a million dollars for a series of new studies.Environment Minister Rebecca Shulz says the Government of Alberta will give a grant of $500,000 to allow the university to look into key environmental issues."We're joining forces with ...

The provincial government has unveiled plans with the Alberta Medical Association on a new compensation model for rural generalist practicians and family physicians.Minister of Health Adriana LaGrange says the province has heard the worries from Albertans of not being able to find a family doctor, or trouble getting in...

EDMONTON, AB - The Alberta government is offering a 7.5 per cent wage increase in the midst of collective bargaining, with government workers calling for a 26 per cent bump.More than 22,000 members of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) fall under the negotiations that began this year, including workers in...

Medicine Hat is more likely to receive federal cash through proposed legislation that requires approval from the Alberta government for deals with Ottawa, municipal affairs minister Ric McIver said Tuesday."There is upcoming no money flowing to Medicine Hat, and there's the problem," McIver told CHAT News.&qu...

EDMONTON, AB - Documents released under Alberta Freedom of Information laws confirm the United Conservative government was talking with the coal industry for years about relaxing a policy that protected the Rocky Mountains from open-pit mines. The documents also show the province was talking about opening those landsca...

The tourism industry is back and better than ever.Travel Alberta reports that international visitors spent $2.53 billion in the province in just the first three quarters of 2023. In the last year before the COVID-19 pandemic began, international tourism spending totalled $2.28 billion for all of 2019.Minister of Touris...

The Alberta government must produce thousands of documents on its attempts to encourage coal mining in the Rocky Mountains after a judge threw out a bid to block their release. In denying the government's request for a judicial review into an order to provide the documents, Justice Kent Teskey warned the province that ...

COQUITLAM, B.C. - A hearing for AllanSchoenborn, who killed his three children in 2008, has ended with an abrupt adjournment after his lawyer told the British Columbia Review Board he would no longer appear in front of its current panel. Lawyer Rishi Gill says he continues to represent Schoenborn, who was found not cri...

OTTAWA - A 1970s Canada Post building in Alberta and stone Quebec City army barracks dating back to 1856 are just some of the public lands the Liberal government plans to turn into homes. The idea, outlined in the federal budget released Tuesday, is to use federally owned sites across the country to help ease the Canad...

OTTAWA - The Métis Nation - Saskatchewan is pulling its support for a federal bill that proposes to enshrine its self-government over concerns about the other two groups it recognizes. President Glen McCallum says the legislation is holding the group back, and its members made the decision to pull support after...

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - The Union of Canadian Correctional Officers says prisons have become "overwhelmed" by a surge in drone drops of weapons and drugs, driving a wave of violence in correctional facilities. Union members plan to protest outside the regional headquarters of the Correctional Service of Canada in ...

OTTAWA - Quebec Liberal MP Pablo Rodriguez says he deplores the tone taken by the leader of the Parti Québécois, who referenced dark moments in Canadian history to justify the party's push for independence. Paul St-Pierre Plamondon told a news conference Tuesday that the history of francophones in Canada ...

VICTORIA - Emerson the elephant seal is back in Victoria after defying attempts to relocate him and swimming more than 200 kilometres to return to his preferred urban habitat to moult. The Fisheries Department says the 225-kilogram seal swam an "astonishing" average of 34 kilometres a day during a six-day jou...

HONOLULU (AP) - As wildfires ripped across Maui last August, the head of the emergency management agency dragged his heels about returning to the island amid the unfolding crisis, while a broad communications breakdown left authorities in the dark and residents without emergency alerts, according to a report released W...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he strongly supports a proposal from House Speaker Mike Johnson to provide aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Republican Speaker Johnson, facing a choice between losing his job and funding Ukraine, notified lawmakers earlier that he would forge ahead for votes o...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that he will move to dismiss impeachment charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a move that would end the Senate trial before arguments even begin. Schumer, D-N.Y., said that the two articles of impeachment brought against th...

LeBron James is going back to the Olympics for the first time in 12 years. Stephen Curry is headed to the games for the first time. Kevin Durant will go there with his eyes on history. And they're just part of a star-studded roster the Americans have assembled for the Paris Games. USA Basketball announced its men's Oly...

BANGKOK (AP) - Myanmar's jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest as a health measure due to a heat wave, the military government said. Suu Kyi, 78, and Win Myint, the 72-year-old former president of her ousted government, were among the elderly and infirm prisoners moved from ou...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Former U.S. Sen. and two-term Florida Gov. Bob Graham, who gained national prominence as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee in the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks and as an early critic of the Iraq war, has died. He was 87. Graham's family announced the death Tuesday in a sta...