Canada's major airports will soon have new X-ray scanning gear for carry-on baggage that officials say could speed up the trip through security and make it easier to spot potential threats.

An older brother of the man killed during a police chase in Hinton, Alta., says his family just wants to get the body home to Saskatoon before getting caught up in whether the police chase was justified.

A political adviser, who apologized last week for an online comment that mocked Alberta's premier, has quit his job with the Wildrose Alliance.

Saskatchewan Roughrider fans are gearing up for a road trip to this weekend's Grey Cup in Calgary.

Calgary has been hit by a fungus that can kill several species of trees that are popular in suburban backyards.

Twenty years after a unanimous House of Commons resolution to end child poverty in Canada by 2000, one in 12 children in Alberta still live in poverty, the lobby group Public Interest Alberta said Tuesday.

September saw a 25 per cent jump in the number of Albertans receiving employment insurance benefits, according to figures released Tuesday by Statistics Canada.

Ottawa says it plans to invest $63 million in a large-scale carbon capture and storage project in Alberta.

Saskatoon police are warning the public to watch out for Grey Cup ticket scams.

The federal government is not protecting rivers and groundwater near the northern Alberta oilsands, affecting people living as far upstream as Yellowknife, according to a new report.

A teenager wanted in connection with a homemade bomb attack in Calgary was arrested Monday night as he stepped off a bus in Manitoba.

Homeowners can expect a $54 property tax hike in the coming year, as well as improved snow clearing on some residential streets, as part of a budget passed by city hall on Monday night.

The latest Parks Canada survey of caribou numbers in Jasper National Park shows a drop of 30 per cent between 2008 and 2009.

Teemu Selanne scored the shootout winner as the Anaheim Ducks beat the Calgary Flames 3-2 on Monday night.

Officials have ordered the demolition of a southwest Calgary house that partly collapsed Monday afternoon during renovations.

Calgary city council rejected adding funding for new transit peace officers on its first day of budget deliberations, keeping the proposed property tax increase at 4.8 per cent for now.

Alberta Liberal Leader David Swann is standing by comments he made about how the rollout of the province's H1N1 vaccination program may have created delays that resulted in deaths.

Flames captain Jarome Iginla looks to build on his first hat trick of the season and help Calgary end its recent struggles against the lowly Ducks in Anaheim on Monday at 7 p.m. PT.

A sit-in at federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice's constituency office in Calgary ended after eight hours Monday with the arrest of seven protesters.

A single mother who recently realized her dream of opening a vegetarian restaurant could lose the business after a serious case of the flu.