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After two years of pandemic-restricted Canada Day events, the celebrations in Calgary will look much similar to years past, with events scheduled at three new downtown locations.

There’s a flurry of activity at Stampede Park as workers get all the vendors and rides set up before the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth begins.

A controversial symbol has been removed from a marked Calgary Police Service SUV after questions from CBC News alerted the service to its existence, weeks after a direct order from the city’s police commission to stop displaying the thin blue line on police uniforms.

A Calgary man who defrauded investors out of tens of millions of dollars has been taken into custody after a judge convicted him in a decades-long Ponzi scheme. 

Make reservations, plan on walking or taking transit and don’t come without a back-up plan if you are thinking of spending your Canada Day long weekend in the tourism hotspot of Banff.

A study released Thursday from the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary followed 17 astronauts before and after their space flights.

Calgary police have released security camera footage Thursday morning of a suspect they believe may be involved in setting two house fires in the northwest community of Varsity in May and June.

Calgary police have released security camera footage Thursday morning of a suspect they believe may be involved in setting two house fires in the northwest community of Varsity in May and June.

After a two year hiatus due to the pandemic, the Stampede parade is returning to the city’s streets with 92 entries and more than 4,000 participants.

Ten people mostly from Edmonton and Okotoks, Alta., are facing 139 charges after a fentanyl superlab was shut down south of Calgary last July, the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT) said in a release on Wednesday.

Alberta’s continuing care homes are preparing for a further easing of restrictions as the province lifts public health orders related to COVID-19 for the sector at the end of the June. And while the overarching orders — put in place by Alberta’s chief medical officer of health — will be rescinded, several key rules including mask and isolation requirements are still mandated through Alberta Health Services policies.

For years, senior Calgary Transit officials have told city council that it would cost $400 million to add turnstiles or other measures to Calgary’s CTrain system to keep out those who don’t actually pay a fare.

Media personalities, former politicians and industry officials gathered at Calgary’s BMO Centre on Tuesday as part of an event called Alberta Relaunch, billed as a conference focused on shaping Alberta’s economic future.

The United States is facing an “uncomfortably high” risk of falling into a recession, says Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of Canada, but Alberta could be insulated from the worst impacts if that happens.

City-owned Enmax has finally released the number of customers it has on load limiters.

With the race to lead the United Conservative Party still in its early days, a new poll suggests more Albertans would consider voting for that party than the Opposition NDP in the 2023 provincial election.

Calgary is facing an opioid crisis and drug use is now common at train stations. So why are people choosing transit to use?

The very same force pushing inflation up — high oil prices — provides Alberta’s government with an incredible capacity to help.

Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Lich has been re-arrested for breaching her bail conditions, one of her lawyers has confirmed.

A woman associated with a parade float that appeared in a southern Alberta rodeo over the weekend that depicted a man with a fake beard and a turban says the display had “absolutely nothing to do with racism” — but the head of a local Sikh cultural centre disagrees.

A lingering winter snowpack in Alberta’s Rocky Mountains means skiers and snowboarders can spend this week — including Canada Day — on the slopes.

The emergency texting number from Calgary Transit has been soaring in popularity as the security situation on local trains deepens anxiety.

Ramifications of drought, climate change and skyrocketing fertilizer prices have left some Alberta farmers with limited resources coming into this year’s growing season. Here’s how one young scientist is hoping to change that.

Organizers of the Sundre Pro Rodeo said the entry was not approved to be in the parade and did not pass through any registration.

The Advanced Coronary Treatment (ACT) Foundation, which provides CPR and automated external defibrillator (AED) training in more than 1,800 Canadian high schools, is now offering a opioids overdose response training program, which it hopes to rollout in high schools across the country.

The Alberta Court of Appeal has granted the appeals of four convicted Alberta multiple murders, now giving them the chance to apply for parole after 25 years.

Bathtub Bikes is a community bike store that takes bikes destined for the landfill, or sat for decades covered in cobwebs in the back of someone’s garage, and gives them new lives.

Smith’s key policy idea seems designed to plunge Alberta into a constitutional mess, raising the question: how much conflict with Ottawa do conservatives want?

The establishment of the IRO was a call to action in the city’s White Goose Flying Report that was released in 2016 — a municipal response to the National Truth and Reconciliation Commission report. 

Instead of a red ribbon cutting, Highfield Farm celebrated the opening of its greenhouse by cutting a garland crafted from greenery and weeds.