The RCMP says the helicopter patrols are monitoring the Prairie border to search for and target all illegal activity along the 49th parallel, including illegal border crossing, smuggling and drug trafficking in and out of the country.

The Alberta government says a retired judge has been appointed to oversee a review of the province's police watchdog and Crown prosecution service.

EDMONTON - Alberta's government is introducing a new child-care funding formula in an effort to make $15-a-day the flat rate for children kindergarten age or younger.

Any Canadian response to U.S. tariffs will be regionally fair and equitable and not single out Alberta, Canada's main oil-producing province, Canada's Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said on Wednesday.

Canada’s top oil-producing province of Alberta plans to boost its wealth fund roughly tenfold to C$250 billion ($173 billion) by 2050 in a bid to wean itself off volatile natural resources revenue.

Canada's federal government has assured Alberta that it will not bear a disproportionate burden of any retaliatory tariffs imposed in response to potential US import levies.

For almost 50 years, the Alberta government has invested natural resource royalties in the Alberta Heritage Fund to help reduce reliance on those resources — namely oil and gas. The government wants to grow the fund to $250 billion by 2050.

Alberta will introduce a flat monthly fee of $326.25 for full-time licensed child care, or $15 per day, starting April 1. This change is part of the $3.8-billion Canada-Alberta Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement,

Two very different weather situations will occur across Michigan later today and tonight as a fairly strong Alberta Clipper storm system tracks across the Upper Peninsula.

The special licences grant hunters with the highest bid the opportunity to hunt year-round for a specific animal.

EDMONTON - The Alberta government is sending a delegation to the U.S. National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C.

Former Appeal Court justice Peter Martin was hired in November to conduct the review, Alberta Justice spokeswoman Heather Jenkins says