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The City of Calgary is asking for around $1.3 billion in new and continued investments in the upcoming provincial budget, but the premier’s warning of spending restraint is raising questions around how much will be fulfilled. Topping the city’s budget wishlist is a $53 million provincial contribution to extend the …

Calgary city council met for a scheduled public hearing meeting on Tuesday, but it was an off-agenda topic that took up most of the questions for councillors and the mayor from reporters. A notice of a recall petition against Mayor Jyoti Gondek was filed late last month, and was confirmed …

Calgarians continued to spill into city hall Friday to share their thoughts on the city’s proposed strategy to address housing affordability, but one recommendation in the plan garnered more attention than others. It’s the second straight day of public feedback at an extended city committee meeting all focused on ‘Home …

There is growing pushback amongst residents in Hillhurst to a proposed residential development on a vacant lot along 10 Street N.W., formerly home to the Kensington Manor apartment building. The Kensington Manor building was demolished in April 2020 after it was deemed structurally unsafe and tenants of the seven-storey building …

A woman suffered significant injuries after being hit by a vehicle along Macleod Trail in southwest Calgary early Friday morning. According to police, the woman, whose age was not released, was walking westbound in the crosswalk on the north side of the 42nd Avenue S.W. intersection at around 1:50 a.m. …

With high temperatures above 20 C expected this weekend in Calgary, bars and restaurants along the popular 17 Avenue are welcoming the return of patio weather. “Finally, this weekend is finally the beginning of a full, full patio season,” Ernie Tsu, president of the Alberta Hospitality Association said. But there …

An agreement in principle for a new event centre and development in Calgary’s Rivers District is expected to cost $1.22 billion, with funds coming from the city, the province and the Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation (CSEC). Here’s how the numbers break down. The city will be putting up $537.3 …

There’s new life on the horizon for the historic Eau Claire and Bow River Lumber Co. building. It was moved from its original downtown location along Barclay Parade S.W. in October 2021 to make way for flood mitigation work in the area and has been sitting in a temporary location at a parking lot …

Mian Khalid Jan has watched in agony as devastating floods raged through his home province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan. For 24 hours he couldn’t sleep, eat, or work. Jan is in Calgary, but much of his family, including his brother and sister, are among hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis who have been …

The last of Calgary’s original model of bus traps could be gone in the next year or so. The traps — essentially a pit dug into a road that prevents anything but a transit bus from passing through — have been a fixture in Calgary since the 1970s. The City of Calgary …