NEWS & SPORTS FOR MAY 6TH/2024
UPDATE: -If you're in east-central and southeast Alberta, get ready for some rain! Rainfall warnings are in effect for Red Deer, Ponoka, Innisfail, Stettler, Coronation, Hanna, Drumheller and Oyen, along with the counties of Camrose, Red Deer, Lacombe and Flagstaff. Forecasters say those regions will be looking at 50 t...
May 06, 2024
NEWS & SPORTS FOR MAY 3/2024
-After running into some serious backlash over the Bill that would have granted them sweeping power over municipalities, the province now says it wants to work WITH local governments on it. Municipal Affairs Minister Ric McIver says not only do they want to hear about possible amendments to Bill 20, but he wants to cla...
May 03, 2024
NEWS & SPORTS FOR MAY 2ND/2024
-Parkland RCMP have charged a 29-year old Edmonton man in connection with the alleged child luring and sexual assault of a youth . Mounties say they began investigating a complaint on April 22nd, and with the help of the ZEBRA Centre, searched an Edmonton home and vehicle April 24th. The arrest was made shortly afterwa...
May 02, 2024
NEWS & SPORTS FOR MAY 1/2024
-Edmonton police are hoping the public can help them identify a "person of interest" in the recent fire that destroyed the historic Hangar 11 last week. Officials say it was only one of two such buildings left from the Second World War, and now it's gone. The fire is considered suspicious, and police have pho...
May 01, 2024
NEWS & SPORTS FOR APRIL 30/2024
-Edmonton police have issued Canada-wide warrants for a suspect in three drive-by shootings investigators believe are connected with extortions involving South Asian home builders. The incidents all happened in December. In one case, someone fired shots at a bedroom window of a home in the Cy Becker neighbourhood of Ed...
Apr 30, 2024
NEWS & SPORTS--APRIL 29/2024
-The ALERT team's ICE-unit has charged a Calgary school principal with offences related to child sexual abuse materials. Investigators say the suspect allegedly uploaded those materials through Skype, while a number of phones and computers have since been seized from the man's home. They say some were also foun...
Apr 29, 2024
NEWS & SPORTS FOR APRIL 26/2024
-A 33-year old Constable with the St. Paul RCMP detachment is facing counts of child exploitation offences. The ALERT ICE-team say their investigation began last November, after the suspect allegedly uploaded some exploitation videos to Snapchat. And they say they seized evidence from the suspect's home compute...
Apr 26, 2024
NEWS & SPORTS FOR APRIL 25/2025
-A big seizure of animals in distress on a property in Mountain View County this week, has put a major strain on the Alberta SPCA. The organization was called to help RCMP during an investigation, and SPCA Peace Officers took 82 animals into care. Among them were 56 dogs, ten sheep, nine llamas, four chickens and three...
Apr 25, 2024
NEWS & SPORTS FOR APRIL 24/2024
-Edmonton police are releasing a series of surveillance videos of suspects in those home builder extortion schemes. It's known as "Project Gaslight", where South Asian home builders are being told to come up with cash, or their projects and homes will be set on fire. Investigators say several arsons are linke...
Apr 24, 2024
NEWS & SPORTS FOR APRIL 23/2024
-A judge has ruled a class-action lawsuit can proceed against the Catholic Church and a priest who used to work in Edmonton. It's being led by residential school survivor Sphenia Jones, after the priest in question allegedly described evidence of unmarked graves as lies and manipulation during one of his sermons. ...
Apr 23, 2024