Shannon Williams

Grammy award-winning country singer Luke Combs plays Commonwealth Stadium on Saturday, May 29, 2027, one of just two Canadian dates on his 12-show My Kinda Saturday Night Tour. Treaty Oak Revival, Avery Anna, Shenandoah and Wyatt McCubbin open. Tickets go on sale August 21.

The Alexander Spa Hotel opens at 300 Spring Creek Drive in Canmore in early 2027. Adults-only, 45 suites, a 13,000-square-foot spa, geothermal heating, and an underground tunnel to The Malcolm Hotel next door. It's the second of three hotels planned on land the Kernick family has owned since the 1920s.

Calgary police are asking for help identifying a woman believed responsible for a July 18 arson in the 1800 block of 42 Street S.E. Investigators say a piece of paper was lit and placed under a detached garage door, causing about $50,000 in damage. The suspect is believed to frequent Forest Lawn.

Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi says Premier Danielle Smith should cancel or postpone the October 19 referendum, arguing Canada needs to project unity during the trade war. Smith's office says the vote proceeds because hundreds of thousands of Albertans signed petitions demanding it.

Lordco Auto Parts has opened in the old Peavey Mart building at 64 Carry Drive SE, its seventh Alberta store and the 87th in a Western Canada network. Eighteen people work there, 17 of them hired locally, under a manager who transferred from Revelstoke. It is open seven days a week, and the public grand opening is Saturday, September 12. Here are the hours, what the store actually carries, and what it means that a big box empty since the Peavey Mart collapse has a tenant again.

Medicine Hat households pay 7.000 cents a kilowatt-hour. The default rate in Calgary and Edmonton is 12.01. The City's own calculation for this quarter came in at 4.47 cents — below the 7-cent floor written into its rate bylaw, so residents pay the floor, and the margin helps fund a multi-million-dollar dividend back to the City. Here is how the only municipally owned generation, distribution and retail utility in Alberta sets your rate, what it saved you in 2025, what the October 1 reset does, and why December 31 matters more.

Calgary police are asking for help identifying a black SUV with chrome window trim seen fleeing the Southland CTrain Station parking lot around 1 a.m. on August 25, after a woman was sexually assaulted. Investigators believe she did not know the man before the attack.

The Saskatchewan Drive home once owned by Peter Pocklington, the Oilers' first owner and the man who traded Wayne Gretzky, is among nearly 300 properties on Edmonton's 2026 tax auction list. It's listed at $1.98 million, but that isn't what it would cost at auction on October 29.

Snow fell along Highway 40 near Kananaskis Village on Sunday, the same day Sunshine Village in Banff and Kicking Horse posted their first snow photos of the season. Fall doesn't officially begin for another three weeks.

Starting October 1, every new solar panel supplied in Alberta carries a $14 environmental fee, and panels are banned from landfills. A typical 20-panel home system adds about $240. Panels already installed aren't affected. Industry says the fee is nearly five times what it costs to recycle a large TV.