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.

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.

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 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.

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

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,

Police say a man wanted for murder in a 2018 Toronto shooting that killed an up-and-coming rapper and a 28-year-old man has been arrested in Alberta.

Alberta receives over a quarter of its revenues from the oil and gas industry, with the total amount for this budget year estimated at some C$20.3 billion, or around $14 billion. That appears to be an uncomfortably high degree of dependence on oil and gas revenues for the provincial government.

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 Alberta government is sending a delegation to the U.S. National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. Affordability and Utilities Minister Nathan Neudorf, Health Minister Adriana LaGrange and Mental Health and Addiction Minister Dan Williams, along with three staff , are scheduled to attend the event next Thursday.

The largest exporting province rejecting a ‘Team Canada’ approach against Donald Trump doesn’t position the country well to negotiate with a second Trump administration.