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The death of 33-year-old Trokon Dousuah following a charity mixed martial arts bout is raising questions about regulations in place to govern combative sports in Alberta and what changes are needed to maintain fighter safety. 

Alberta RCMP are investigating the death of a 33-year-old fighter following a charity combative sports event outside Edmonton on Saturday.

More than a year after a man was trapped and fatally burned inside a south Edmonton smokehouse facility, 26 workplace safety charges have been laid in his death against Sofina Foods Inc., based in Markham, Ont.

An Alberta company has lost the right to manage its own well sites after the provincial regulator ruled the operations pose a safety risk and must be abandoned by the operator. 

Canada's top court has declined to hear the appeal of one of two men found guilty in the deaths of two Métis hunters who were shot and killed in northeastern Alberta.

An Alberta scaffolding company has been ordered to pay $350,000 in workplace safety penalties after a worker at a pulp mill in Peace River, Alta., died in a fall.

A recreation facility equipment supplier will pay $200,000 in workplace safety penalties after one of its workers died at a hockey arena in a small town east of Edmonton.

Justice Carrie Sharpe, who led a fatality inquiry into the death of Tim Hague after he was knocked out in an Edmonton boxing match in 2017, has made 14 recommendations for changes to the way combative sports are regulated in Alberta.

Alberta government proposing bigger fines for illegal slaughter and sale of meat

An Alberta RCMP constable has admitted to harassment and discreditable conduct for telling a fellow officer she was a “money-chasing piece of trash” for filing a formal sexual assault complaint against another Mountie.

The Alberta Court of Appeal issued a decision Thursday in the case against Joseph Donald Skelly, overturning a previous sentence that would have seen the retired butcher serve his time at home.

A contractor is facing workplace safety charges after an employee died in a fall through a roof near Fort McMurray last year.

The Alberta government is investing $112 million for the construction of interim housing for Albertans who lost their homes when a wildfire ripped through the community of Jasper.

A statement issued Thursday by the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) provided more details on the final moments leading to the death of Hoss Lightning, a 15-year-old boy shot by RCMP last week in Wetaskiwin, Alta.

The homecoming for Jasperites returning to their wildfire-ravaged town will mark the beginning of a challenging effort to rebuild what was lost to the flames.

An Edmonton woman who alleges that she was sexually assaulted at a northern Alberta work camp, then dismissed for reporting the abuse, is suing her former employer and the man she holds responsible for the attack. 

A wildfire that roared into the community of Jasper, Alta., late Wednesday, incinerating vast stretches of the townsite, has grown to 36,000 hectares.

As retailers warn that sales of contraband tobacco products have undermined their profits, investigators caution that the supply chain is vast, highly profitable and resistant to enforcement efforts, despite a recent spike in sizable seizures across the province.

Government officials say at least 10,000 people were forced to evacuate from the Jasper townsite after a wildfire moved dangerously close to the community late Monday night.

Shell Canada has announced it will forge ahead with a pair of carbon capture projects in Alberta, as recent setbacks for other proposed projects in the sector cast doubt on the technology.