A helicopter pilot who was helping fight fires in northern Alberta was killed in a crash on Wednesday.

Brandon and Jared Vanderlinden are the lone Edmontonians among the 50 athletes Canada is sending to Cologne, Germany, to compete in the eighth annual World Dwarf Games.

A cyclist was rushed to hospital in Edmonton Wednesday afternoon following a crash with the driver of an otherwise empty school bus.

The government agency defines smoke hours as time spent with a reduction in visibility below 9.7 kilometres.

Motorcycle crashes that resulted in death or serious injury have reached a 10-year high compared to the first half of the past 10 years, Edmonton police data shows.