Calgary

The City of Calgary declared a state of local emergency over the city’s constrained water supply on Saturday, a day after officials revealed that work to repair a burst water main is expected to take three to five weeks longer than initially expected. Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek said she signed the paperwork to declare the […]

Saskatchewan’s finance minister was ordered to apologize Monday after she sent the Speaker a text accusing him of letting the legislature devolve into an “Opposition puppet show.”  Donna Harpauer delivered the apology in the house after Speaker Randy Weekes said the minister had messaged him saying government members can’t push back during chamber debates and that as […]

Former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi came out of political retirement on Monday, announcing a run for Alberta’s NDP leadership to challenge what he termed an “immoral” United Conservative government. “This government is like nothing I’ve ever seen before,” Nenshi told The Canadian Press in an interview prior to the announcement. “They’re not only incompetent. They’re […]

Rachel Homan has won the Canadian women’s curling championship with a dramatic 5-4 win over Jennifer Jones. Homan and teammates Emma Miskew claimed the fourth Scotties Tournament of Hearts victories of their careers, but first since 2017. Jones, needing to draw to the button on her final rock, came up just short, allowing Homan to […]

A day after eliminating a heavyweight from contention, Kate Cameron continued her climb into Canadian women’s elite curling by reaching the national championship’s semifinal. Cameron’s team out of Winnipeg’s Granite Curling Club downed Alberta’s Selena Sturmay 6-4 in a playoff game Saturday to get to Sunday’s semifinal in Calgary. After halting Kerri Einarson’s run of […]

Hockey Hall of Famer Lanny McDonald suffered a cardiac event Sunday after returning from the NHL’s all-star game in Toronto. The 70-year-old wrote in an Instagram post Monday on the Calgary Flames alumni account that two nurses heading to their own flights at Calgary International Airport helped him when he was in distress. “It’s true […]

A 29-year-old woman from Calgary has been charged in a hit and run in Regina early December 2. At about 1 a.m. that day, officers were sent to a report of a sick or injured person on the 1100 block of Rae Street. They found a woman laying on the ground at an entrance to […]

Saskatchewan’s Opposition N-D-P is raising questions over a contract the government signed with a private clinic in Calgary to offer mammograms.  The province is to pay Clearpoint Health Network two-million dollars to provide one-thousand mammograms until March 2025.  Public disclosure documents show the company’s subsidiary, Surgical Centres Inc., donated more than 14-thousand dollars to the […]

The Saskatchewan Roughriders have released their depth chart for Friday’s game in Calgary against the Stampeders. Trumaine Washington starts at CB, replacing William Poole III who was released by the team this week. DE Bryan Cox Jr. returns to the lineup and will serve as a Designated American. Cox Jr. has been out since Week […]

It was a barnburner at the Brandt Centre with the Regina Pats emerging with a 5-4 win over the Calgary Hitmen. Regina scored four times in the third period to pick up the win. In a span of 26 seconds, Zackary Shantz and Braxton Whitehead scored for Regina to give the Pats the lead. Dru […]