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.

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.

Alberta covers a massive area with diversity that may surprise anyone unfamiliar with the province’s unique geography.

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.

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.

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

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.

The Alberta government is seeding a new investment vehicle with $2 billion as part of a plan to boost the province’s resource investment fund tenfold to at least $250 billion by 2050.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is calling for a joint Canada-U.S. NORAD base in northern Canada to bolster Arctic security. Smith says she pitched the idea at a recent meeting with fellow premiers and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. She says the base could be similar to the Canadian NORAD Region headquarters in Winnipeg.

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.

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,