Alberta Premier Danielle Smith speaks to reporters at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 12, 2025. Ben Curtis—AP© Ben Curtis—AP ...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith backed the bill to lower the number of signatures needed to have a referendum on independence, but doesn't support splitting from Canada.

The province of Alberta, Canada, home to more than four million people, is under a state of emergency, as nearly 100 wildfires burn, dozens of them out of control.

And finally: Alberta makes up only about 10% of Canada’s parliament, the House of Commons. But economically, the oil-producing province contributes 17% to the country’s GDP.

The pandemic took the conservative party in the oil-rich province of Alberta far to the right. An election on Monday will test if voters, traditionally among Canada’s most conservative, will follow.

An advocacy group in Alberta, Canada, is trying to educate residents of the province about what it argues would be the benefits of breaking off from the country to join the U.S. as its 51st state.

In Alberta, the blazes have brought back bad memories of 2016 when a raging wildfire destroyed 2,400 buildings in Fort McMurray, Alberta, the heart of Canada’s oil sands region with the third ...

When Alberta hiked the province's minimum wage to $15 an hour in the fall of 2018, it was the highest rate in the country. But nearly six years and a pandemic later, the minimum wage hasn't budged ...

The province of Alberta, Canada's main fossil fuel producer, on Thursday paused approvals of new renewable electricity generation projects over one megawatt, prompting protests from green groups.

A post-apocalyptic tale of survival amid a zombie outbreak is the latest Sunday night hit from HBO — and Alberta, Canada, couldn’t be happier. “The Last of Us,” which airs its Season 1 ...