The Russian pavilion will not be part of the 2023 Edmonton Heritage Festival, the Edmonton Heritage Festival Association (EHFA) board announced on Friday.

The shigella outbreak in downtown Edmonton has made 31 people sick since it was reopened by Alberta Health Services in March.

Almost one-quarter of Edmonton’s downtown office real estate is empty, according to a report on Canadian Office Figures released Tuesday by the Canadian Board of Real Estate. Edmonton’s office vacancy rate in the core in Q2 stands at 24.1 per cent, about six per cent higher than it was three years ago.

CBC News is retracting a report alleging someone in Premier Danielle Smith’s office emailed Crown prosecutors to question and challenge the handling of cases involving COVID-19 protests in Alberta that blocked traffic at a U.S. border crossing for more than two weeks.

A motorcyclist was killed in east Edmonton Wednesday afternoon after the driver hit a city bus, police said.