A downtown Edmonton Chinese food restaurant has been shut down for the second time in three weeks, after health inspectors found evidence of cockroaches and unsafe food handling. Alberta Health Services issued a closure notice to Urban China at 10604 101st Street on Sept. 18. A previous AHS order closed the restaurant on Aug. 30. In both…

Restaurateur Nate Box wants to establish three new businesses in a historic building in the Highlands neighbourhood — but he’s relying on the generosity of Edmontonians to make it happen. Box, who owns several other casual dining restaurants including District Cafe and Bakery, Salz, Little Brick and Burrow, has plans for a new restaurant, deli and boutique liquor…

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley will deliver a keynote address to the 2018 International Pipeline Conference in Calgary on Tuesday morning.  The speech comes one day after federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer outlined his plan to get the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion back on track, including the appointment of a ministerial special representative to lead a renewed…

The last thing a satisfied WestJet customer expected to get when she sent the company a glowing review was a referral to a suicide hotline. But at least it shows that Juliet — the name given to the airline’s new, artificial intelligence Facebook chatbot — cares. The customer, who didn’t want to be identified because she sells…

Washington’s Department of Ecology wants the Canadian government to fix what it calls “deficiencies in critical areas” of its spill response plan for a spur of the Trans Mountain pipeline that runs through the state. When Canada purchased the Trans Mountain pipeline and assets for $4.5 billion in May, it also bought the Puget Sound line, which carries Alberta…

A grieving family is pleading with Alberta Health Services to make a life-saving treatment for heart attack patients available in Red Deer — before another patient dies in central Alberta. When Grant Hay, 55, returned home from a gruelling day at work feeling nauseated and short of breath, his wife took him to the hospital…