Lacombe

It came down to a final measurement but Rachel Homan and Team Canada held on to beat Korea 6-5 Saturday night in the final of the 2024 Pan Continental Curling Championship in Lacombe.

Homan tied the game up at 5 in the ninth end and then stole one in the tenth to pull out the victory over the defending champs from South Korea who went home with silver this year. Homan's rink is the first Canadian team to win the tournament in its three-year history.

Team China won the women's bronze medal on Friday with a 7-3 victory over Japan.

As Daylight Saving Time ends, it’s time to set your clock back an hour this weekend.

Alberta clocks will turn back one hour early Sunday morning, as 2 a.m. becomes 1 a.m.

While setting your clock back, Central Albertans are also reminded to check their smoke alarms.  

Canada's spy service tracked the flow of its intelligence reports across government and studied how other agencies handled them as part of an investigation into leaks of classified information about foreign interference, a newly released memo shows. 

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service described the "tireless efforts" in the memo prepared for staff who were keen for an update on the probe into unauthorized disclosures to the media. 

Canada’s Team Brad Gushue placed fourth overall, after a 10-8 loss to Team Shuster of the United States in the men's bronze-medal game Friday (Nov. 1) afternoon at the Gary Moe Auto Group Sportsplex.  

The loss marks the first time the Canadian men's team will not reach the podium at this event.  

A new team of Alberta Sheriffs will work alongside RCMP to mitigate crime throughout communities in Central Alberta.  

The provincial government is expanding the Alberta Sheriffs’ Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods (SCAN) unit with the creation of a new team of investigators in Red Deer.   

Canada’s Team Rachel Homan will go for gold at the Pan Continental Championships after a 6-5 victory over China’s Team Rui Wang at the Gary Moe Auto Group Sportsplex Friday (Nov. 1) morning.   

With the win, Homan, vice-skip Tracy Fleury, second Emma Miskew, lead Sarah Wilkes, alternate Rachel Brown, and national coaches Viktor Kjell and Renee Sonnenberg advance to Saturday’s (Nov. 2) 3 p.m. championship game against South Korea’s Team Eunji Gim.  

Ports in British Columbia could potentially be paralyzed again starting next week, as the latest labour dispute has triggered a provincewide lockout notice from employers against a union of more than 700 foremen.

The BC Maritime Employers Association says in a statement that it will "defensively" lock out members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 514 starting Monday at 8 a.m., shutting down all cargo operations provincewide but leaving cruise ships and operations for grain vessels unaffected.

What started as a regular week for Eckville local, Barbara Olsen turned out to be anything but ordinary.  

Olsen purchased her weekly Lotto Max and Extra ticket, and checked the numbers after the draw, like usual, but this time she won $250,000 on the Sept. 13 Extra draw.   

On Oct. 28, around midnight the Wetaskiwin RCMP responded to a 911 call of male that had been stabbed at a residence in Wetaskiwin . 

When officers arrived on scene, they called for a high priority response from EMS.

While officers were applying pressure to the stab wound, the fell unconscious and stopped breathing.

Officers started CPR on the victim, who then regained consciousness.

Due to the victims deteriorating condition, police suspected he would not survive the wait for EMS and as a result, transported the victim to hospital themselves.