Adam Harrison

A 35-year-old man drowned Saturday afternoon after jumping from a cliff into the Highwood River at Nature's Hideaway campground, about 30 kilometres southeast of Calgary. It's at least the fourth drowning at that spot since 2005. After a death there in 2019, the family asked for warning signs or restricted access. The cliff sits on public land beside a private campground, and no one has clear authority over it

About 4,400 flight attendants walked off the job early Sunday, grounding roughly 600 flights and suspending bookings through August 5. Passenger rights under the strike are narrower than most travellers expect, and one common reaction to a seven-hour phone queue forfeits them entirely.

Environment Canada warned of gusts up to 90 km/h across Edmonton, St. Albert, Sherwood Park, Spruce Grove, Stony Plain, Fort Saskatchewan and Camrose County on Sunday. The warning carried a specific caution that recent heavy rainfall has left trees more likely to come down, in a region that has already passed a 73-year summer rainfall record.

Elections Alberta needs at least 60,000 workers for the October 19 referendum, and hiring closes October 10. All positions are paid, training is paid, and applicants can be as young as 16. Applications route automatically to the returning office for your electoral division, so where you live decides who reviews you.

City council has approved a $10.4 million arts hub at 92 Street and 118 Avenue with a 200-seat black box theatre, artist-in-residence space, a marketplace and 24 affordable housing units for artists. The city is providing the land and $3.3 million. The site is the same one where a planned arts centre was demolished more than a decade ago.

A Taber business donated billboard space to Forever Canadian, the campaign against Alberta separation, and Thomas Lukaszuk posted his thanks over the weekend. Two months earlier the town ordered a pro-separation billboard removed as a nuisance, the sign stayed up anyway, and people were threatening to boycott Taber corn.

I finally got to check out Marvel: Crisis Protocol for myself at GenCon 2026 and I'm liking what I saw. Let's chat about why.

A 16-second video posted July 31 showed examples of online hate the Edmonton Police Service wanted people to report, including comments about deportation. It reached 171,000 views before police deleted it, and they haven't said why. Constitutional lawyers argued most of what it showed isn't criminal. The portal it pointed to is still open, still accepting complaints about conduct EPS itself defines as non-criminal.

A supervisor at a private school in northern Alberta is charged with assault with a weapon after a boy was disciplined with a belt. RCMP say the practice, known as the strap, was used at three Mennonite schools in the area and was written into a collective constitution signed by parents. The Supreme Court ruled implements out of bounds 22 years ago.

Alberta RCMP issued 1,107 tickets and removed 90 impaired drivers from provincial roads between July 31 and August 3. There were 28 injury collisions and five fatal ones. Speeding tickets were less than half what officers wrote over the May long weekend, and injury collisions still went up.