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Emergency personnel assisted in a water rescue in southwest Edmonton Saturday evening. According to police, a 911 call was received after multiple witnesses observed a dog splashing around in a storm water drainage pond for the Chappelle Garden neighbourhood near Crawford Way in southwest Edmonton. Witnesses reported to police that they were worried the dog was struggling so they went to rescue it, at which point they realized the dog was actually pawing at a woman in the pond. Police told ...

  EDMONTON -- Starting Saturday, Alberta Precision Laboratories will only test specific samples for COVID-19 variants of concern. The provincial health lab sent a notice to health care providers Friday saying it will only test samples from specific populations, including hospital and emergency room patients, patients involved in outbreaks, health care staff and people who have recently travelled internationally. Since Feb. 3, the lab tested all samples of COVID-19 detected in Alberta for v...

“It was not a consensual fight,” Haruun Ali, a community advocate and candidate running for Edmonton’s Ward Papastew in the upcoming municipal election, told CTV News Edmonton in an interview. “It was a brutal assault that took place as the boy was trying to come home from school,” he added. Ali said he found the entire press conference difficult to watch. “He has broken the trust with the community,” Ali shared. “The way that (fixing trust) starts is not by going onto TV a...

“Our investigation currently shows this began as a consensual school yard fight and was part of an ongoing dispute between a group of male youths that reportedly started late last year.” The police chief also called for calm from community members after kids involved in the assault have received threats online. Haruun Ali, a community advocate and candidate running for Edmonton’s Ward Papastew in the upcoming municipal election, agreed with the chief’s comments about threats. “Any...

EDMONTON -- Fire crews brought a grass fire west of Warburg, Alta., under control Friday afternoon. Officials told CTV News Edmonton that the grass fire was reported at 11:39 a.m. and brought under control just after 1 p.m. Highway 39, between Range Road 33 and Range Road 34, was partially closed because of smoke limiting visibility for drivers. Firefighters from Warburg and Thorsby, Alta., responded to the fire. Keven Lefebvre, Leduc County fire chief, said in an interview with CTV News ...

  EDMONTON -- Parkland County residents are concerned a day after a neighbour was charged with several firearm offences and accused of making threats against infrastructure and the public. Kelvin Maure is facing a total of 34 charges, including impersonating a police officer and being in possession of an explosive substance. "In January 2021, Maure displayed escalating behaviour leading investigators to believe he presented a threat to critical infrastructure, police, and the public," Thur...

Seven new deaths were reported Friday in a limited Twitter update given by Dr. Deena Hinshaw. Approximately 19,000 tests were completed in the province, Hinshaw said, leading to the positivity rate increasing to 10.6 per cent. ST. ALBERT BECOMES HOT SPOT REGION St. Albert has now reached the threshold for additional targeted restrictions with a case rate of 375 per 100,000 residents and 261 active cases. While St. Albert was the only city to be added to the hot spot list, Hinshaw said num...

  EDMONTON -- The temporary shelter at Edmonton Convention Centre closed its doors on Friday after six months of use.  The Tipinawâw shelter opened Oct. 30 as a place for hundreds of the citys homeless to safely shelter during the winter months of the pandemic.  The shelter was to have closed at the end of March, but city councillors voted to fund the facility for another 30 days, until April 30. "It was important to find a large space that could accommodate as many people as possible,...

EDMONTON -- The biggest auction in the 60 year history of a local company starts Monday. From a 1940s antique car, to 50 foot long motorhomes, and rows upon rows of truck tractors, to massive earth moving machines and cranes of every shape and size, it is an auction for the ages south of Edmonton at Ritchie Brothers in Nisku. “Potentially a record breaking auction,” says Trent Vandenberghe, Ritchie Brothers Regional Sales Manager. After months of planning the auction begins online, on ...

  EDMONTON -- Memorial Composite High School will shift to online delivery due to increasing COVID-19 cases connected with the school. Thirty per cent of the student population and 25 per cent of staff are self-isolating at-home as a result of being identified as close contacts, Parkland School Division said in a statement to media Friday. At-home learning will start Monday and continue until May 14. In-person learning will resume on May 17 school board officials said. According to the Pa...