CALGARY - Calgary council has decided not to add the cost of 12 new transit peace officers to next year's budget.

Alberta's privacy watchdog says he's "stunned" by a report the city has lost an average of one laptop a month that could contain personal data.

EDMONTON - Mayor Stephen Mandel says he's concerned by an auditor's report indicating officials have only looked into the circumstances of one of 48 missing city laptops to see if personal data was lost.

EDMONTON - The Leduc man who died in a fiery crash outside Hinton Thursday was an animal lover who enjoyed fishing and camping, his family said Monday.

CALGARY - Warrants for attempted murder have been issued for two people after an improvised explosive device was left at a Rundlehorn Drive NE home over the weekend.

CALGARY - Council's first two attempts to trim the city budget have failed, as aldermen refused to cut grants Monday morning to partner agencies like the zoo, Talisman Centre and Tourism Calgary.

EDMONTON - Edmonton's Influenza Assessment Centre will close at midnight Monday. It's closing because of a significantly decreased volume of patients seen at the centre located at the Duggan Health Centre over the past week, says a news release from Alberta Health Services.

After a two-year, $70-million makeover, Edmonton's second-largest enclosed mall is taking its new slogan-- "Let your light shine" --quite literally.

While everyone was gushing over Southgate Centre's expansion and fancy new decor this summer, Kingsway Mall was putting the finishing touches on a pretty extravagant makeover of its own on the other side of the city.

EDMONTON - While Canadians rang up their seventh increase in retail sales in nine months, Albertans' spending remained flat in September. But that's better than the previous two months when Alberta sales posted monthly declines, according to Statistics Canada figures released Monday on retail trade.

EDMONTON - Employment Minister Hector Goudreau vowed his government will continue to press the Workers Compensation Board to improve the fairness of its processes in the wake of a hostage-taking at the WCB's Edmonton offices, but says he's not advocating an overhaul.

EDMONTON - Patrick Clayton, the man accused of holding nine people hostage at the Workers' Compensation Building in an October standoff, will go to the Alberta Hospital for an assessment of his mental state.

A few longtime residents of Rio Terrace community still recall the day a swimming pool built on the top of the river bank at a local fitness club cracked and slipped down the slope.

The head of the RCMP wants to make it easier to fire culpable cops and plans to petition Parliament for a broader variety of officer punishments.

The Grey Cup show will go on, but the weeklong celebrations won't be the same without the defending champions competing in the CFL final on home turf, say dejected diehard Calgary Stampeders fans.

For the first time since the Great Depression, teams from Montreal and Regina will clash for Canadian pro football supremacy. Back in 1931, the Montreal Winged Wheelers blanked the visiting Regina Roughriders 22-0 at Molson Stadium.

EDMONTON - Is it any wonder Nikolai Khabibulin has a bad back, given the number of times he has carried the Edmonton Oilers? As for his return, the goaltender could be back in the lineup tonight. Or not. That's the thing with back injuries, they come and go at their preferred pace.

With apologies to Corb Lund, the real Hurtin'Albertans are not a band, they're the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers after the Chicago Blackhawks have blown through town.

EDMONTON - If only walls could talk. Instead, it was up to a few of the Edmonton Oilers veterans to offer some insight as to what was discussed in a long Sunday morning meeting with head coach Pat Quinn.

MONTREAL - And this was the team that was supposed the give the Montreal Alouettes trouble? Never has a trip to the championship game appeared so easy.