Category Archives: Local News
RCMP investigate homicide in Maskwacis
A 34-year-old man died on Friday night in a home on Samson Cree Nation, and RCMP are investigating the death as a homicide. Maskwacis RCMP recieved a report about a stabbing just after 10 p.m. ...
Jun 05, 2023 File Photo: Maskwacis RCMP Detachment
EPS adds online reporting for hate incidents
The Edmonton Police Service's Hate Crime and Violent Extremism Unit is launching online reporting for hate incidents. Today, June 5, 2023, the EPS is announcing the expansion of online crime reporting...
Jun 05, 2023
Wildrose Amusements to undergo safety inspection following incidents in Stony Plain
Over the weekend, the Town of Stony Plain made the decision to shut down rides at its Farmers' Days exhibition following two incidents that sent attendees to hospital. Alberta Health Services s...
Jun 05, 2023
EPS seek public's assistance in locating missing teen in North Saskatchewan River
Edmonton Police are looking for the public's assistance in locating a 14-year-old teen who was last seen in the North Saskatchewan River. On Sunday June 4, at approximately 5:00 p.m., a group o...
Jun 04, 2023
Alberta ends provincial state of emergency over wildfires
After exactly four weeks, Alberta is ending its Provincial State of Emergency. The state of emergency had been declared on May 6. It expired at 11:59 p.m. Saturday. Public Safety ...
Jun 04, 2023 SWF081 fire, located at Chipewyan Lake
27 year old man found dead in Bow Valley Wildland Provincial Park
RCMP are investigating the death of an Edmonton man on a hiking trail near Canmore. On Sunday, Mounties were called to Bow Valley Wildland Provincial Park by Kananaskis Mountain Rescue. A medic...
Jun 04, 2023
Grande Prairie child dies after struck at intersection
A child has died in northwest Alberta after they were struck by a truck pulling a camping trailer. RCMP say they responded to a crash in Grande Prairie on Friday afternoon. Police say a child w...
Jun 03, 2023 Downtown Grande Prairie. File photo.
Human remains found in a rural area near Duffield and Paul First Nation
RCMP in west central Alberta say they have found human remains in a rural area near Duffield and Paul First Nation, 75 km northeast of Drayton Valley. On May 27, RCMP received a report of human...
Jun 03, 2023
Alberta wildfires: evacuations in the north as dry conditions persist
Alberta's spring wildfire season continues to be one of its toughest on record. According to Alberta Wildfire, 553 wildfires have burned 1,100,000 hectares of land in Alberta as of June 1, a land area...
Jun 02, 2023 Black Mountain wildfire in the Rocky Mountain House Forest Area in 2022. Photo submitted by Melissa Story.
Bomb threat at Edmonton Catholic Junior High School
At approximately 8:15 a.m. this morning, Friday, June 2, 2023, police responded to a bomb threat received by phone, at Cardinal Leger Catholic Junior High School. Multiple resources from EPS Northwest...
Jun 02, 2023 Edmonton Catholic Schools
