Officials have ordered the demolition of a southwest Calgary house that partly collapsed Monday afternoon during renovations.

Calgary city council rejected adding funding for new transit peace officers on its first day of budget deliberations, keeping the proposed property tax increase at 4.8 per cent for now.

Alberta Liberal Leader David Swann is standing by comments he made about how the rollout of the province's H1N1 vaccination program may have created delays that resulted in deaths.

Flames captain Jarome Iginla looks to build on his first hat trick of the season and help Calgary end its recent struggles against the lowly Ducks in Anaheim on Monday at 7 p.m. PT.

A sit-in at federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice's constituency office in Calgary ended after eight hours Monday with the arrest of seven protesters.

Calgary police are ready for this week's Grey Cup festivities in the city. Inspector Blair White says planning started in September on how to keep the peace during the party-like atmosphere. "We have mostly in the downtown it's going to be beat officers and the mountain bike team. Then the game itself up at McMahon Stadium on November 29th is going to be filled with pay-duty officers just like ...

Tourism Calgary is expecting a lot of people to come to the city for the Grey Cup - especially people from Saskatchewan. Spokesman Marco de Iaco says Riders fans are always expected during Grey Cup festivities, but he expects more will come to the city now that the Riders are in the big game, and it's the neighboring province. He says 15,000 to 20,000 visitors are expected to come to Calgary for ...

City council has approved spending $350,000 on a graffiti abatement program, $200,000 of which will come from the city's "rainy day fund." The program helps private landowners who are victimized by damage from graffiti and currently have to pay for the clean up themselves or face fines from the city. Alderman John Mar was hoping to have a program worth $750,000, but he came up $400, 000 short in ...

An emergency landing at Springbank Airport Monday afternoon. The landing gear on a light plane failed to engage so the pilot was forced to make a belly landing. The plane ended up on its nose and the pilot walked away from the crash. The Cessna 310 has since been taken off the runway and to a hanger.   Watch video courtsesy of Quinn Gardner:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ...

Warrants have been issued for two men wanted in relation to a bomb scare in the northeast community of Rundle. One of the suspects is a known member of the Aryan Guard in Calgary, and police say the victims in this case know the offenders, and share the same values and beliefs. Police were initially called to an apartment complex on Rundlehorn Drive on Saturday morning over complaints of gunfire ...

Alberta’s H1N1 vaccination program will open up to the general public on Monday.

Farmers and ranchers shouldn’t be blamed for low-flying aircraft suspected of being used by big game hunters, a rancher says.

A Rocky Mountain House trucking firm will appear in court in December facing environmental charges for waste burning.

Two people face drug trafficking charges after Rimbey RCMP busted a marijuana growing operation on Wednesday near Gull Lake.

Students from the Samson Band High School and the Muskwachees Cultural College in Hobbema take to the streets in Hobbema on Thursday to celebrate National Addictions Awareness Week.

This past year's spring drought has continued to have ripple effects beyond the fall harvest. Chole Cartwright owns Hummingbird B+B and hay farm near Bottrel. She still has hay sitting in her shed since she decided not to sell it to a hay plant, but keep it in the area for the local market.[...]

Thanks to some good years and proper fiscal management, the Town of Cochrane will be able to deal with a rough 2010 and prepare for brighter times ahead, said the Mayor. Mayor Truper McBride said Nov.[...]

The Cochrane Environmental Action Committee (CEAC) and its members are a testament to the power a small group of dedicated citizens can wield. As 2009 draws to a close, so to does the 20th anniversary of CEAC.[...]

Reagen Sulewski sports@cochranetimes.com The Cochrane Movie House will temporarily close up shop for two days to finish renovations, but some movie buffs will get a sneak peak at the brand new layout of the theatre this week.[...]

Cochrane's cowboys had a rough ride at the Canadian Finals Rodeo. Three local cowboys were in competition at the CFR in Edmonton from Nov. 11 to 15, brothers Tanner and Baillie Milan in steer wrestling, and Steven Turner in bullriding, with none of them coming away with a championship.[...]

CALGARY - Calgary council has decided not to add the cost of 12 new transit peace officers to next year's budget.

Alberta's privacy watchdog says he's "stunned" by a report the city has lost an average of one laptop a month that could contain personal data.

EDMONTON - Mayor Stephen Mandel says he's concerned by an auditor's report indicating officials have only looked into the circumstances of one of 48 missing city laptops to see if personal data was lost.

EDMONTON - The Leduc man who died in a fiery crash outside Hinton Thursday was an animal lover who enjoyed fishing and camping, his family said Monday.

CALGARY - Warrants for attempted murder have been issued for two people after an improvised explosive device was left at a Rundlehorn Drive NE home over the weekend.

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Larry Gilmour, 55, unsuccessfully panhandles former federal Liberal leader Stephane Dion in downtown Victoria, where Dion attended a meeting on homelessness in November 2007.

VICTORIA – All B.C. residents are now eligible for the H1N1 influenza vaccine, and the provincial health officer is hoping that available supplies available around the province are used up as soon as possible.

Finance Minister Colin Hansen has extended an extra break for new homes from next year's harmonized sales tax. VICTORIA – The B.C. government is giving a bigger break to new home buyers in the latest move to ease the impact of next year's harmonized sales tax.

A plan to triple the size of the emergency room at the Kootenay Lake Hospital became a little more real with the hospital announcing it awarded the contract for the project.