Edmonton Folk Music Festival unveiled on Wednesday a lineup headlined by banjo and fiddle masters Allison de Groot and Tatiana Hargreaves, Ukrainian quartet DakhaBrakha, Old Crow Medicine Show and genre-mixing Ben Harper.

Five days after saying a United Conservative candidate who compared transgender students to feces in food could be given a second chance, leader Danielle Smith has repeated the woman wouldn’t sit in caucus if her party forms government.

Three people have been arrested in connection with a violent assault in April that left the victim with life-threatening injuries.

A three-year-old boy died in northern Alberta Tuesday night after he was hit by the driver of a pickup truck in the town of Slave Lake.

Mandatory evacuation orders for the towns of Fox Creek, Little Smoky, and Swan Hills were lifted on Wednesday.