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Jason Kenney says he will not run for United Conservative Party leadership, effectively putting an expiration on his time as premier of Alberta.

Jason Kenney says he will not run for United Conservative Party leadership, effectively putting an expiration on his time as Premier of Alberta.

Edmonton’s only women’s tackle football team starts its first full season since 2019 with a win against the Calgary Rage.

A river runs through it and that means the City of Edmonton has a lot of bridges. How many you ask? The answer may surprise you.

Joseph Bilodeau, who was 16 when he witnessed the shooting deaths of two Métis hunters, testified in court Friday.

Edmonton police have charged a 36-year-old man with murder in two deaths in Chinatown, near downtown.

Back in 1991, it was the heated matchup of two teams taking and receiving walloping blows that almost defy logic when examined under the sport’s current lens. That Battle of Alberta in particular was mean, nasty and downright violent.

Cottage owners and farmers who say a proposed feedlot threatens the water quality of a popular lake are to gather this weekend to discuss how they can keep making their case to the regulatory body that will rule on the project.

COVID-19 led to Canadian parks and green spaces being flooded with a sea of visitors. Now heading into the third summer of the pandemic, park officials are once again preparing for the crowds and all that comes with them.

Premier Jason Kenney’s decision to resign as leader of the United Conservative Party has set the stage for a tumultuous contest for the job, leading to questions about what’s to come. 

Premier Jason Kenney’s decision to resign as leader of the United Conservative Party has set the stage for a tumultuous contest for the job, leading to questions about what’s to come. 

Starting Sunday, people can expect to see more transit peace officers on foot patrolling LRT platforms from 7 a.m. to 1 a.m., a new city report on transit safety shows.

Veteran journalist Nancy Carlson takes the helm of CBC Edmonton’s supper hour show, reporting weekdays on breaking news and current events in Alberta’s capital city.

The suspect was arrested Wednesday after officers were called at around 4 p.m. to an aggravated assault in the area of 106th Avenue and 98th Street.

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney will remain at the helm of the United Conservative Party until a new leader is chosen, the UCP caucus said on Thursday.

United Conservative Party MLAs are meeting in Calgary today to plot next steps after Premier Jason Kenney announced his intention to resign as party leader.

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, at the founding convention of his United Conservative Party in 2018, said he’d consider members’ input on policy but the bottom line was simple: “I hold the pen.”

After a new park or green space to change things up? We’ll then you’re in luck. We’re hooking you up with a map teeming with green space gems in and around Edmonton.

Premier Jason Kenney insisted for months he’d be satisfied with getting the most simple of majorities of 50 per cent of the vote plus one ballot in the leadership review. But, after receiving a paltry 51.4 per cent of the vote, he decided to step down as leader. It now means that Alberta is set to have its sixth premier in 10 years.

Edmonton Elks and Calgary Stampeders players will be in a legal strike position as of 12:25 p.m. MT on Thursday, the CFL said on social media Wednesday.

The Wood Buffalo RCMP has brought in a new unit to focus on investigations into sexual assault and domestic violence. 

Kenney faces a judgment unlike any other in his 25-year political career. It could end his time as premier of Alberta, compromise the future of the party he co-founded in 2017, and set the province on 12 months of political chaos leading up to the May 2023 provincial election. 

Jason Kenney resigned as United Conservative Party leader Wednesday after receiving 51.4 per cent approval of his leadership from United Conservative Party members.  

Jason Kenney resigned as United Conservative Party leader Wednesday after receiving 51.4 per cent approval of his leadership from United Conservative Party members.  

Jason Kenney announced his resignation as United Conservative Party leader Wednesday after receiving 51.4 per cent approval of his leadership from United Conservative Party members.  

Jason Kenney announced his resignation as United Conservative Party leader Wednesday after receiving 51.4 per cent approval of his leadership from United Conservative Party members.  

A First Nation in Alberta says new archival work has helped explain numerous discoveries of human remains that they now believe are the unmarked graves of residential school students. 

Sarah Sansom told a jury trial in Edmonton on Tuesday that alcohol consumption had previously caused problems in her marriage with Jacob Sansom, who had quit drinking two years before his death.

Alberta’s education minister hopes elementary school teachers will volunteer to pilot test draft curriculum in three new subjects next year – French immersion and francophone language arts and science.

Alberta’s chief medical officer of health says the high number of COVID-19 deaths in the past few weeks are likely the tail end of the Omicron BA.2 subvariant surge.

After the Edmonton 3×3 basketball team split after travelling the world for years, its captain is now playing for Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia, and is developing the country’s 3×3 basketball program.

The last time the Flames and Oilers met in the playoffs was in 1991. The hairstyles and outfits were different, but the rivalry was the same, leaving Red Deer, Alta. as a true community divided.

Alberta’s utilities watchdog has shut down a plan from a power transmission company to give ratepayers a refund, saying the small cash payout proposed by AltaLink would ultimately cost consumers millions more than it returned.