Alberta News

EDMONTON — As United Conservative Party members prepare to cast ballots on the fate of Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, 19 former conservative legislature members say they support him.

Calgary police say they have charged a youth with second-degree murder in the death of a teen whose body was found in a suburban greenspace last week.

CANMORE, Alta. — Robin McKeever has been named head coach of Canada's cross-country ski team following 12 years coaching the country's decorated Para Nordic program.

CALGARY — One person has died in a house fire in Calgary's southeast Forest Lawn neighbourhood. Firefighters were called to a fourplex on the 2600 block of 39th Street at about 10:10 p.m. Monday.

VANCOUVER — West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. says it will cut production capacity and jobs at an Alberta pulp mill and change the type of pulp output.

NISKU, Alta. — An independent association of counties and municipal districts says it opposes the Alberta government's proposal for a provincial police force because it fails to demonstrate how that would increase service levels in rural areas.

CALGARY — Suncor Energy Inc.

CALGARY — Canadian energy company TransAlta Corp. says it has signed a deal with Meta, formerly known as Facebook, to sell the technology giant power generated at a planned U.S. wind project.

CALGARY — A University of Calgary study says there may be a link between the density of certain oil and gas operations and increased health risks for nearby pregnant women and their babies.

CALGARY — A price tag in the tens or hundreds of billions of dollars, and a project scope akin to that of the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the 1800s.