The suspect in the stabbing deaths of a mother and child outside a school last week has died in hospital, police said Thursday. The man was shot by Edmonton police last Friday after a 35-year-old woman and her 11-year-old child were stabbed outside Crawford Plains School in the southeastern part of the city. “Investigators have…

The Alberta government says it is providing funding to Edmonton police for people in custody to access recovery-oriented health supports. Nicholas Milliken, minister of mental health and addiction, says the province is to spend $17 million over three years to bring in an additional 14 positions to the police force’s social services program. The government plan…

EDMONTON—Thousands of somber Edmonton Police Service (EPS) officers in blue dress uniforms marched in rows of eight along the downtown streets of Edmonton today, accompanying the bodies of Constables Travis Jordan and Brett Ryan, who were killed in the line of duty earlier this month. The two-and-a-half kilometre procession was part of the regimental funeral…