The medical lead at Alberta Health Services’ Indigenous Wellness Core has resigned after a job offer to the province’s former chief medical officer of health was revoked.

The southwest leg of Anthony Henday Drive will be slow going for more than two weeks as crews close a pair of bridges over the North Saskatchewan River.

A 17-year-old boy has been arrested after seven girls reported that he sexually assaulted them in the wave pool in West Edmonton Mall.

Areas northwest of Edmonton were evacuated late Wednesday afternoon due to flash floods.

Across the country, Canadians honoured National Indigenous Peoples Day Wednesday. In Edmonton, those celebrations took to city streets with a block party and a new crosswalk, while Indigenous culture filled the local science centre.