With the busy travel season ahead, officials are asking travellers to plan ahead to avoid delays at airport security. Dec. 20 will be the busiest travel day of the year at Edmonton International Airport, which is expecting 25,000 people to be flying that…
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Alberta RCMP seek public’s help in identifying human remains
Alberta RCMP are asking for the public’s help in identifying three people whose remains have been discovered in Alberta over the past 40 years. RCMP unveiled facial reconstructions of the remains in Edmonton Wednesday. The reconstructions are based on “our best estimates…
Lewis Farms rec centre, west LRT first targets in Edmonton city budget debate
Deliberations aimed at reducing Edmonton’s city budget Wednesday were marked by contentious motions that could see the $321-million Lewis Farms Recreation Centre get put on on hold. Coun. Sarah Hamilton suggested the move as council debated projects in the proposed supplemental…
Extreme cold, lots of snow expected in northern Alberta
Time to hunker down and bundle up. Communities across northern Alberta are expected to get slammed with heavy snow Thursday afternoon as an arctic air mass throws much of the province into a deep freeze. Snowfall warnings were issued by…
Snow warnings end, but extreme cold gripping Alberta’s northern reaches
Time to hunker down and bundle up. Some communities in northern Alberta are under weather warnings because of a cold arctic air mass bringing extreme cold temperatures. But warnings issued by Environment Canada earlier Wednesday about heavy snow expected Thursday…
Edmonton police forensic investigators to test speedy DNA technology
The Edmonton Police Service will test a novel technology that processes DNA samples in a couple of hours instead of the days or weeks often required by conventional laboratories. The Forensic Services Branch will take part in a 90-day pilot…
Deaf woman’s tweet about Peloton spoof snags Ryan Reynolds attention
When Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds tweeted out a new, boozy spoof of the much-ridiculed Christmas commercial for the Peloton exercise bike, Crystal Jones couldn’t get the joke. Jones is deaf and Reynold’s online ad mocking the viral commercial featuring the now-infamous…
‘I cried over every page’: Edmonton author pens ‘pre-dementia love letter’ to her daughters
Rhonda Hoffman remembers some of the early signs that her mother was facing dementia: forgetting things, like a name that would usually come back to her, but didn’t; mixing fact with fiction; confusing things. But one of the most jarring…
OPINION | Kenney goes to Ottawa seeking gold, returns with participation medal
He was like the month of March: came in like a lion and left like a lamb. Premier Jason Kenney’s much-anticipated two-day visit to Ottawa this week ended with a “frank” but civil chat with Prime Minister Trudeau, and an…
Kenney goes to Ottawa seeking gold, returns with participation medal
He was like the month of March: came in like a lion and left like a lamb. Premier Jason Kenney’s much-anticipated two-day visit to Ottawa this week ended with a “frank” but civil chat with Prime Minister Trudeau, and an…