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Sylvan Lake and a 13-year-old girl from Red Deer died.Alberta RCMP media relations Cpl. Troy Savinkoff said EMS found the girls Sunday morning at the Best Western hotel in Sylvan Lake, a resort town about 15 kilometres west of Red Deer.Savinkoff said there was a male parent nearby, but wouldn’t provide further details, adding the children’s next of kin were notified.

Edmonton Police Service has charged two adults in relation to the death of  the eight-year-old girl, whose body has not been found.On Monday evening, police in the west end stopped by to check in on the wellbeing of a child at a home near 87 Avenue and 165 Street.Police said the child was nowhere to be found and began investigating. There were “suspicious circumstances” and EPS said the homicide section took over early the next morning.

Read more: Strathcona County RCMP officer dies in collision northeast of Edmonton The funeral and procession will take place Thursday April 20, at Millennium Place in Sherwood Park, Alta. The procession will begin from Bethel Lutheran Church at 10 a.m., with the regimental funeral starting at 11:30 a.m.

Sylvan Lake in central Alberta.One of the girls was 13-year-old Olivia Dawn Johnson from Red Deer, and the other was a 12-year-old girl from Sylvan Lake.“The hole Olivia has left in our hearts and in our lives is enormous, and our family is still trying to come to terms with the reality of not having her bounce into the house, spunky and smiling,” the family said in a statement to Global News on Thursday.“We are heartbroken and devastated by the loss of Olivia.”The family said the teenager was a compassionate soul, always generous with her kindness and caring for others. She loved to laugh, and her sense of humour was contagious, often making others laugh right along with her, the family said.“Olivia was a talented young woman with a bright future ahead of her.

A Mountie died early Monday morning in a collision that occurred in Strathcona County, just east of Edmonton, according to the RCMP.

A five-year-old boy who was in the care of Alberta Children’s Services died after being attacked by dogs on a First Nation north of Slave Lake.

‘Ridiculously dangerous’ speeder caught 117 km/h over the limit: Edmonton police chief As a result, 36-year-old Michael Peterec, of Kelowna, B.C., was charged with one count of dangerous driving contrary to Section 320.13 (1) of the Criminal Code.Due to it being a Criminal Code charge rather than a regular traffic ticket, RCMP said it’s up to a judge to determine the fine amount along with other recommendations such as a licence suspension, though that is all determined on a person’s past driving history and other related offences.“There is no excuse for excessive speeding on our streets and highways,” Alberta RCMP traffic Insp. Chris Romanchych said in a news release.“Travelling at rates beyond the posted limit puts you, and those you are sharing the road with, at risk.”Mounties said although there was no collision, an Alberta RCMP traffic forensic collision reconstructionist was consulted and provided a detailed report for use in court as expert evidence to support the Criminal Code dangerous driving charge.

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Anti-hate experts are raising concerns after a picture of weapons, ammunition and body armour seized at the border protest at Coutts, Alta. showed patches belonging to a neo-nazi group in Canada.

Teenage girl dies after being stabbed at school in Leduc, homicide investigation underway On Tuesday, the girl was identified as Jennifer Winkler.STARS Air Ambulance landed beside the school and airlifted Winkler to the University of Alberta Hospital in critical condition, but she died from her injuries.The victim and the suspect knew each other, police said.The suspect left the school after the stabbing but was arrested without incident at 12:20 p.m.On Tuesday, police announced Dylan Thomas Poutney, 19, is facing one count of first-degree murder.He remains in custody and is scheduled to appear in an Edmonton court on Tuesday.Winkler’s family created a GoFundMe to help cover the cost of her funeral.

Leduc, south of Edmonton.The violent incident happened at Christ the King School, which is part of the Saint Thomas Aquinas Roman (STAR) Catholic Schools division.The 17-year-old victim was airlifted in life-threatening condition to an Edmonton hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries.RCMP said it responded to the school following a 911 call at 9:58 a.m. about a violent assault.

helicopter crash in northern Alberta on New Year’s Day.Spirit River RCMP said officers were dispatched after receiving the call from an Emergency Location Transmitter on Jan. 1, from an area near Grande Prairie, Alta.An ELT helps rescuers find aircraft and people in distress following an aircraft impact with terrain.RCMP said in a media release Saturday that the transmitter signal had come from a Robinson R44 helicopter, a common design.The downed helicopter was located in a farmer’s field in the Birch Hills County area, which is northeast of Grande Prairie.When RCMP arrived on scene all four occupants were declared dead.“It appears to be a family of four,” said Sgt.

Tesla as it sped south on Highway 2 between Edmonton and Calgary this past summer.Court records indicate Leran Cai, 20, had a first court appearance in Ponoka Provincial Court on Dec. 11.On top of the criminal charge, Cai is accused of speeding and RCMP said he also received a 24-hour licence suspension for fatigue in connection with the alleged July 9 incident, in which drivers and police noticed a 2019 Tesla Model S operating with no driver in sight.Witnesses claim the man behind the wheel and his passenger were asleep with their seats fully reclined, as their Tesla travelled up to 150 km/h on the freeway near Ponoka, which is about 100 kilometres south of Edmonton and 200 kilometres north of Calgary.

American tourists in Alberta? RCMP investigating possible breaches of COVID-19 restrictions American visitors have been able to use a loophole allowing them to travel through Canada on the way to and from Alaska. Crackdown on ‘Alaska-loophole’ welcomed by Alberta border community “RCMP attended the hotel and as a result of their investigation, they found a second individual in his presence, a female from Calgary, and found him to be breaching the requirements to quarantine while he travelled through Alberta so he was issued a ticket under the Alberta Public Health Act,” said RCMP Cpl.

accused of killing a family doctor at a walk-in clinic in central Alberta is to make his first court appearance on Wednesday.Deng Mabiour of Red Deer, Alta., is charged with the first-degree murder of Dr. Walter Reynolds, a 45-year-old father of two.The 54-year-old suspect is also charged with assault with a weapon and assaulting a police officer.

@BillBlair’s office on the video made public tonight from the police crusier’s dashcam of the RCMP’s arrest of Chief Allan Adam where he is tackled and punched https://t.co/bcXXYZMhNm #cdnpoli #RCMP pic.twitter.com/V9AZxKxk8Y— Mercedes Stephenson (@MercedesGlobal) June 12, 2020Alberta Justice Minister Doug Schweitzer said he would look into what occurred in Fort McMurray.“I’m asking for details,” he told Corus Entertainment’s The Roy Green Show.

— More to come…— With files from Caley Ramsay, Global News

Athabascan Chipewyan First Nation was at a casino in Fort McMurray with his wife and niece on March 11, sources told Global News, adding when the family left the casino, they went to their truck where Adam’s wife was driving and Adam was a passenger.Sources say that an RCMP officer approached the family about an expired tag on their vehicle licence plates.They go on to say an RCMP officer laid hands on Adam’s wife and Adam objected. A second RCMP officer then arrived on the scene.An altercation occurred and, in the course of that altercation, the two RCMP officers are alleged to have assaulted Adam.

A southern Alberta man is facing a fine after defying a quarantine order from Alberta Health Services related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.