Hinton Mayor Nicholas Nissen says housing had been a pressing issue in the town of 10,000 before the wildfire as its population is growing like the rest of Alberta. Now with the influx of displaced people from Jasper, he says the Alberta community on the doorstep of Jasper National Park anticipates its housing market will be “under pressure for the foreseeable future.”

Alberta politicians reacted to the decisive victory of former U.S. president Donald Trump, who was elected as the 47th president of the United States on Tuesday.

Warrants have been issued for two women in connection with a theft at a local animal shelter.

An Uber driver is in hospital after a stabbing in north-central Edmonton on Tuesday night.

The Alberta government is asking rural municipalities to send letters naming oil and gas companies that aren’t paying their property taxes, but one rural leader says there’s no hope for enforcement.