Alberta News

CALGARY — Returns to shareholders will be a higher priority as Enbridge Inc. completes its large capital projects, company executives told investors Tuesday, punctuating the strategy with an increase in its dividend.

Calgary police say they have charged a man with a double murder dating back more than 20 years. Police say two people entered a home in the city's southeast on July 11, 1994, and Barry Christian Buchart and Trevor Thomas Deakins were shot and killed.

RED DEER, Alta. — The Canadian junior hockey team says it will resume its selection camp on Tuesday after completing a 14-day quarantine. The camp was suspended on Nov. 26 after two players and one non-core staff member tested positive for COVID-19.

AIRDRIE, Alta. — Telly Bear says he is feeling better but his wife is too traumatized to go out by herself after they were followed from a gas station and attacked north of Calgary.

EDMONTON — Alberta’s chief medical officer of health says the latest round of health restrictions in the province isn't getting the job done on high rates of COVID-19. Dr.

CALGARY — Shares in junior oil and gas producer Cardinal Energy Ltd. rose eight cents or 12.3 per cent on Monday to 73 cents after it announced billionaire oilman Murray Edwards stands to nearly double his stake in the company to about 18 per cent.

EDMONTON — The Edmonton Football Team has extended the contract of general manager and vice president of football operations Brock Sunderland through the 2023 season. The CFL team said Monday the extension was finalized earlier this year.

EDMONTON — The University of Alberta has started a clinical trial to try to fight a syphilis outbreak in Edmonton and across northern Alberta.

CALGARY — Efforts have begun to immortalize the late Turk Diggler, a wild turkey whose jaunts through several Calgary neighbourhoods delighted many as the COVID-19 pandemic's first wave upended normal life.

CALGARY — The Calgary Stampeders have re-signed receiver Andres Salgado. Salgado, a Mexico City native, appeared in 15 regular-season games for the Stampeders during the 2019 season and recorded one special-teams tackle.