Alberta News

Edmonton police have laid charges against a man who is accused of forging the signature of Edmonton Oilers star Connor McDavid on authentic team jerseys, then selling them to score big profits.

Calgary police have laid two animal cruelty charges against a man accused of killing a cat with a baseball bat. The animal was found dead when officers answered a call to a southeast apartment block Tuesday evening.

EDMONTON — Firefighters had to use inflatable boats to rescue six people after their vehicles became trapped in a flooded Edmonton underpass during a heavy rain storm.

MASKWACIS, Alta. — Alberta RCMP are investigating the deaths of a young brother and sister found in a body of water on private property near Maskwacis. Police began looking for the toddlers in the early evening on Wednesday.

CALGARY — Dave Dickenson warned that the Calgary Stampeders can't take a winless team lightly.

SWAN HILLS, Alta. — A large spill of crude oil and produced water at a Cardinal Energy facility near Swan Hills is being cleaned up. The Alberta Energy Regulator has few details about Saturday's spill on its compliance reporting website.

CALGARY — The wife of a German tourist who was shot in the head while driving on an Alberta highway told police she remembers hearing a pop and then smelling the strong odour of gunpowder before her husband drove off the road.

CALGARY — Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd. is reporting second-quarter income from continuing operations of $21.6 million, a decrease of $1.9 million from the second quarter of 2018.

CALGARY — The CEOs of nine Alberta natural gas producers have released an open letter to Premier Jason Kenney asking him to show "bold leadership" in supporting a plan to restrict production to boost low gas prices.

CALGARY — A man is in Calgary police custody after officers say a cat was beaten to death with a baseball bat. Police say they were called Tuesday evening to a apartment building in the southeast community of Penbrooke Meadows. Duty Insp.