Professional zeal on the part of homicide investigators turned to confusion when the perpetrator in what looked like photos of a homicide, which were found in a Calgary landfill, turned out to be actor Dan Aykroyd.

But instead of being proof of a horrific crime, the photos turned out to...

Superhuman tests of endurance are nothing new to Calgary running man Martin Parnell.

But attempting to run the Calgary Marathon in full lacrosse gear in under four hours for childrens' charity Right to Play, may have shown the seemingly limitless man a taste of what mere...

It was a tweet that went where no Calgary Stampede tweet had gone before, as the festival that promotes old-fashioned western values made effective use of modern technology, to invite astronaut Chris Hadfield to be this year's parade marshal.

And when the social media-savvy Canadian commander of the International Space...

Ralph Klein's humble beginnings could not possibly have foreshadowed the impact he would have on Alberta and the imprint he would leave on Alberta politics.

Klein, Officer of the Order of Canada, Member of the Alberta Order of Excellence, former journalist, Calgary mayor, Alberta premier, and unapologetic Tory, died in...

He is the lamb in the lion's den.

Vincent St. Pierre is an opinionated, straight-talking blogger, who never shies away from stirring the pot and he's ahem, a Liberal.. in Calgary..

But he doesn't just thrive in what would typically be a hostile environment, he blogs about it...

School dispatchers were overwhelmed and key crisis managers were never alerted, as shots rang out during the fatal HUB Mall armed robbery, according to recommendations in University of Alberta reports into the mass killings.

The massive number of calls coming into the University of Alberta Protective Services centre...

Mindy, a tattoo-clad, aspiring embalmer/funeral director from Rocky Mountain House is Alberta's last addition to the inaugural edition of the Bachelor Canada.

But although her prospective career path may paint a dark picture of the Albertan looking for love next week in The Bachelor Canada, her outlook is...

Walk A Mile In Her Shoes strolled back into Calgary on Thursday raising hundreds of thousands to help women, and their children, walk away from family violence.

It was a scene brought to you by the words glitter and sparkle, and the colours red and pink, as the...

Bachelorette Sandy from Wetaskiwin is the latest Albertan to join the cast of The Bachelor Canada.

Compared to some of the other ladies from across Canada revealed this week – there’s a strip club server from Manitoba and a grad student from B.C. – Sandy is positively the...

UPDATE: A press release issued by Calgary police at 7:32 p.m. on Sept. 17, says all three teens pictured have come forward to police and given statements. None are considered suspects

A three-alarm McKenzie Towne condo fire that destroyed dozens of units, vehicles and construction equipment,...

Blaine Alexander Prockiw was charged in a hit-and-run after Mounties approached his family to notify them that his brother had been killed on a highway crash near Smoky Lake over the weekend.

The car Mounties believed was responsible for the death was at the home where the notification was being...

Peter Lougheed, the former Albertan Premier who left an unprecedented mark on the province and country, died on Thursday.

Known for his political accomplishments, his list of achievements certainly didn't stop at politics.

A Harvard graduate, Lougheed also played for the Edmonton Eskimos during the 1949...

Peter Lougheed has died at the age of 84.

The former Alberta premier and Tory leader was, unequivocally, a titan.

He was an Edmonton Eskimos alumni, with a masters degree from Harvard, and with the kind of family and political pedigree the likes of which you don't see...

Critics are fuming and calling for an Auditor General review after an Alberta Health Services offical received a $738,000, 18-month severance package.

Friends of Medicare say AHS official Andrew Will received the massive pay-out in February after he left Alberta health to take the equivalent job in Saskatchewan.

“This is...

Her approval may be down slightly but Alberta Premier Alison Redford is still the country’s second most popular provincial leader, according to the latest Angus-Reid survey.

While Redford’s foe du jour, B.C. premier Christy Clark, is on the opposite end of the spectrum, ranking second last in the country,...

If you think the province is running amok with our finances and you are itching to get your two cents in, well, you just got your chance.

The province is now asking Albertans to weigh in and tell them – among other things – how and when the government should...

The provincial government took a massive leap forward in accountability and transparency when it announced all official expenses would be made public online, said a taxpayers’ watchdog on Friday.

But there is still one glaring part of the puzzle that will be kept out of the public view – MLAs’...

Despite growing tension between Alberta and B.C. over Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline, relations between the two province are still going strong, a senior politician says.

There will always be topics where the two provinces disagree but that’s not necessarily a bad thing, Alberta Deputy Premier Thomas Lukaszuk told...

King Kong climbed down from his tower in the middle of downtown Calgary, grabbed his beautiful maiden and proposed.

Taking part in the Easter Seals Drop Zone event in Calgary on Thursday, Derek Todd, dressed as the gigantic love-forloned gorilla, rappelled down the 30-storie Sun Life Plaza's west tower in...