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  EDMONTON -- A new record has been set for the Canadian lottery – beating out the previous jackpot by $3 million. The Lotto Max jackpot is at $70 million plus an additional 47 Maxmillions draws for $1 million each. No one has claimed the previous $70 million winning ticket, but 23 of the 47 Maxmillion prizes were won. Six of these Maxmillions were sold to winners in the prairie provinces. There are still four ticket holders from Alberta who haven’t claimed their million-dollar prize....

  EDMONTON -- Alberta and TC Energy have announced the official termination of the Keystone XL project, leaving the provinces final costs on the failed pipeline at an estimated $1.3 billion. The Alberta government ended its involvement in Keystone XL after U.S. President Joe Biden revoked the pipelines permit in January. In a news release, TC Energy said it terminated the project after consulting with the Alberta government. Final costs to the government "are expected to be materially wit...

A 24-year-old man is dead after he crashed his motorcycle on the Yellowhead Trail Wednesday morning, the Edmonton Police Service said.

  EDMONTON -- Police will not return to Edmonton public schools in the fall in the form of school resource officers. Instead, the division is looking to hire people who work with youth, have cultural sensitivity and anti-racism training, and experience in risk assessment and suicide prevention to fill a new role it is calling safety coaches. And if candidates are missing some of those qualifications, theyll be provided with training in those areas and more before hitting the halls in Septe...

  EDMONTON -- Edmonton’s 104 Street will feature local entertainment, extended patios, food vendors and an outdoor market starting Saturday. For 15 weeks, Al Fresco on 4th will take over 104 Street from Jasper Avenue to 102 Avenue for the entire weekend, from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.  There will be a road closure in front of the Mercer building similar to A Taste of Al Fresco, the March event designed to help local businesses recover financially from COVID-19. The 104 Street promenade is de...

  EDMONTON -- Police are investigating after two cyclists were hit by a Range Rover while they were standing on the side of the road in southwest Edmonton. Officers responded to the collision around 4 p.m. Sunday near Wheeler Place and Whiston Road, according to police. “Upon arrival, members found two cyclists on the ground at the side of the road in medical distress,” said EPS in a news release. A group of four cyclists had stopped and were talking on the side of the road when the c...

Volunteers, a Royal Canadian Air Force helicopter, and the RCMP are searching for a missing teenager who fell into the Beaver River on Saturday morning.

  EDMONTON -- Dozens of Canadian lawyers have requested the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigate the Canadian government and the Catholic Church for crimes against humanity. Fifteen lawyers made the official request following the discovery of an unmarked burial site at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. Brendan Miller, special counsel at Foster LLP based in Calgary and one of the lawyers who filed the request, told CTV News Edmonton that while the discover...

  EDMONTON -- RCMP are investigating a fatal collision that happened Sunday evening west of Edmonton on Highway 16. Officers were called to the crash around 7:30 p.m., it happened in the westbound lanes of Highway 16 at Highway 779, according to RCMP. Police did not say how many vehicles were involved in the crash, or how many people were injured, just that the collision was fatal. Parkland County RCMP are asking officers to travel slowly on Highway 16 westbound as officers investigate, o...

Alberta reported another 293 cases of COVID-19 as the province administered over 3 million vaccine doses.