Two people were assessed by paramedics Monday afternoon after they narrowly escaped a fire inside an apartment building northeast of downtown Edmonton.

A man was charged after police officers found a homemade explosive device during an arrest in west Edmonton on Sunday.

A dayhome operator has been charged with the second-degree murder of a seven-month-old Alberta boy that was in her care. Charges against Kyra Renee Backs, 29, were announced by Mounties on Monday.

Emergency crews were called to a gas station in west Edmonton Sunday night to probe a suspicious package.

Alberta’s premier is coming under fire for comments she made online about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a few months before getting the province’s top job.