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.

Police are searching for the driver of a Jeep Grand Cherokee after the SUV was driven through the side of a home in southeast Edmonton early Wednesday morning.

About two weeks after a 17-year-old boy was arrested at West Edmonton Mall’s World Waterpark, two more people are facing allegations that they groped females in the wave pool.