Tag: News/Canada/Edmonton

Brandon Rideout had to wear fishing waders Saturday afternoon to take a walk around his basement. It’s flooded with about two feet of sewage water, and it stinks — bad. Family photos, Christmas decorations and artwork by his two children…

A man serving a life sentence for a murder outside a Grande Prairie bar is appealing his conviction. In June, Nicholas Richard Harris was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years in connection to the…

How do you get to Sesame Street?  An Edmonton-based Métis filmmaker is on the iconic children’s show’s radar and he’s hoping a summit in New York City on Monday with some of the show’s creators will be his ticket.  “We’ve…

Members of the Somali community in Edmonton organized a memorial Friday for the woman who dedicated her life to telling their stories. Local politicians, community leaders and high school friends were among the roughly 50 people who gathered to mourn and…

Field testing Alberta’s new kindergarten to Grade 4 curriculum, which was to begin in September, has been “paused” by Education Minister Adriana LaGrange. LaGrange said she is committed to implementing a new K-12 curriculum, but didn’t offer any specific timelines for when that…

Passengers on a WestJet flight to Edmonton had an unexpected scare Friday evening as their plane blew its two front tires while landing. The flight was WS 3362 from Fort McMurray to Edmonton. There were 70 passengers on the flight.…

A 58-year-old man was killed Friday in a collision in Lloydminster between a semi truck and a pickup truck, police say. RCMP said the incident happened around 4 p.m. Friday at 67th Street and 75th Avenue in Lloydminster. The pickup truck driver was…

Nathan Helfrich planned to celebrate his birthday with his twin brother the night he was stabbed to death by a stranger at a north-Edmonton bus stop. The man who killed him pleaded guilty to manslaughter and robbery Friday in Edmonton Court of…

Edmonton’s new police station and operations facility won’t open as scheduled this year, after engineers discovered leaks in the roof, city officials said Friday.  Construction on the $107-million Edmonton Police Service Northwest Campus started in 2016 is complete but “issues”…

Spidey wore a raincoat and hundreds of spectators wore smiles at the 2019 K-Days parade wound its way through downtown Edmonton on Friday morning.  The parade is the official kick-off to the 10-day summer festival at Northlands, which includes live…