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  EDMONTON -- An Edmonton family was out enjoying the warm weather and making lemonade for a good cause this past weekend. The Lemoine family was raising money to support their displaced grandparents at a pop-up lemonade stand at the corner of 153 Street and 94 Avenue in Edmonton. Asia Lemoine told CTV News Edmonton in an interview that her grandparents lost everything because of the devastating Citadel Mews fire that happened on May 6. “My six-year-old daughter wanted to raise money to...

This weekend, the provinces new cases counts trended downwards but the number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care units continued to rise to record-setting levels. There are currently 186 COVID-19 patients in Alberta ICU, the highest number to date. The 11 highest ICU patient counts of the pandemic have all been recorded this month. Sunday saw another 1,140 new COVID-19 cases, the eighth straight day the daily new case count has been below 2,000.  More than 1.8 million Albertans have n...

On May 3, Jasper RCMP were called about a man who had entered a home near Patricia Street by pretending to work at a cable company.

A man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a Redwater woman.

  An Edmonton student is one of three recipients of the University of British Columbias prestigious Presidential Scholarship. The award secures Grade 12 St. Francis Xavier student Georgia Simkin $5,000 for her first year starting in September, and is renewable the following three years for a total of $40,000. "I feel so honoured," Simkin told CTV News Edmonton. "Definitely grateful for everybody who helped me with my education." The Catholic school wrote Simkin a letter of reference, outli...

The premier said he expects the province to surpass the 50 per cent mark of eligible Albertans to have had at least one vaccine dose in the day. "We should be, at some point in June, pushing 70 per cent of the eligible population vaccinated ... if so, that bodes very well for a broad reopening later this summer," he said.  "We have a ways to go yet." Kenney said his governments reopening plan will be tied to the percentage of population to get vaccinated as well as hospitalizations.  "We...

  EDMONTON -- Former city councillor and federal cabinet minister Amarjeet Sohi is throwing his hat into the race to be Edmonton’s next mayor. “Edmonton holds a special place in my heart,” said Sohi in an announcement Monday morning. “It has given me so much and now I want to give back to Edmontonians.” Sohi has lived in Edmonton for 40 years. “I immigrated to this city with nothing but the love of my brother and sister-in-law,” the mayor hopeful added. “I learned to speak...

  EDMONTON -- Hospitalizations due to COVID-19 in Alberta declined Saturday after setting multiple records earlier this month. In a limited update over Twitter, the province’s top doctor reported that 686 people were in hospital with COVID-19 – a decrease of 32 patients since Friday. Hospitalizations have been declining everyday since they spiked to 741 patients on Wednesday. Saturday marked the largest decrease in the number of people in hospital with COVID-19 since that spike. Accor...

  EDMONTON -- One resident in South Edmonton’s Lansdowne neighbourhood first noticed coyotes in the park near her house this winter. “We’ve never seen them in the park,” said Wendy Rabel. “Only ever down and more towards the university farm.” The past few weeks sightings are sometimes happening several times a day. “They’ve become a lot more comfortable so they’re taking naps in the trees and there was one lying out in the soccer field this morning just sunning itself so...

Charges are pending against a man after an assault at an LRT station and a rifle was found in his possession, according to Edmonton police.