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Three people have been charged after Edmonton Police Service (EPS) uncovered a drug and catalytic converter trafficking operation at an Edmonton scrap yard.

Back in the summer of 2022, police began investigating A1 Scrap Metal Recycling Ltd. Police say they noticed drug deals happening in the scrap yard, as well as spotting unknown people bringing in catalytic converters.

At the end of November, police searched the business and another residence, where they found the following:

Edmonton Police (EPS) is warning drivers about an uptick in vehicle thefts targeting Land Rovers. 

There have been six recent thefts including these vehicles. It seems as though thieves are specifically targeting 2017 to 2021 editions of the following models: 

• Discovery
• Range Rover
• Sport

According to police, it appears that the people stealing these vehicles are using sophisticated technology to bypass anti-theft systems. 

The intersection of 101 Street and 99 Avenue has been cleared after emergency services were there responding to a collision.

According to RCMP, on early Wednesday (Jan. 25) afternoon, a Chrysler Sebring turning left onto 101 Street collided with a man on a mobility scooter who was in the crosswalk.

The man in the mobility scooter was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, while the driver of the Sebring was unharmed.

The area has been cleared after causing delays for a few hours.

More to come...

HBO's The Last of Us has been filmed all across the province from downtown Calgary and Fort Macleod to the Alberta Legislature Building in Edmonton.

Travel Alberta has created a map with pinpoints showing the locations featured throughout the show's first season.

For example, two prominent Edmonton locations include 108 street and Rice Howard Way in the downtown core. The familiar areas are meant to mimic locations in Boston, Texas, and even Indonesia. 

Alberta, Saskatchewan and the CFIA are working to remove barriers to interprovincial food trade in Lloydminster.

Food trade issues have been a long-time concern for the border city.

A new 2-year pilot program operated by the Lloydminster Chamber of Commerce will ease the challenges faced by food businesses in both provinces.

The goal is for safe food to move into and within the city as if there is no provincial border.

Work from local artists will be on full display in Sherwood Park next month. 

11 artists from the Sherwood Park and Edmonton areas will be featured in Gallery@501in their 'Around You / Near You: Shaped in the Studio' exhibition. 

"We're really excited to discover the work of these 11 artists," said Kris Miller, the gallery curator. "We have partnered with three community organizations, and we came together to collaborate on putting on a show to celebrate the talent these artists have." 

A Fort Saskatchewan ringette team battled through a tough injury to win gold over the weekend. 

The U16 Fort Saskatchewan ICE were in Hinton last weekend to take part in the Friends on Ice tournament. 

The team sailed through their first two games, winning both to advance into a pivotal gold-medal match against Hinton, the host team. 

Things started off fine, but disaster struck for the ICE about halfway in.  

Oilsands executives insist they are all in on cutting emissions and will make big investments in green technology, but they maintain there isn't a place to invest that money yet.

Many companies are coming off a year of windfall profits not because they pumped out more product, but because the war in Ukraine and global supply chain crunches pushed world oil prices way up.

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault has said repeatedly over the last year that the companies need to prove their commitment by putting some of that cold hard cash into climate initiatives.

Global economics and the impact for agriculture were a key focus during the Annual Ag Outlook yesterday.

Brad Magnusson, CEO of Magnusson Consulting Group covered a lot of ground from oil and gas prices to the war in Ukraine, and more. 

A key area of interest is the potential impact of an increase in U.S. acres.

He says the USDA is expecting to see an increase in soybeans, winter wheat and spring wheat, with corn acres jumping 1.9 million acres.

Social Development Minister Karina Gould says Service Canada has "virtually eliminated" the massive backlog of passport applications that were delayed this year because of a surge in demand.

Most new passport applications were being processed on time by October, but thousands of people who applied before then still faced excessive delays.

Gould says 98 per cent of those backlogged applications have now been processed.