With the number of people living on the city's streets possibly on the rise, mayor Don Iveson said Thursday the lack of affordable housing is the biggest issue facing Edmonton in the coming years. “If ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man prepares to move his belongings as police and cleanup crews prepare to tear down homeless encampments in Edmonton on Friday ...

A man given five years in prison for beating another man to death at an Edmonton homeless shelter has been located after walking away from a treatment centre. Edmonton city police on Friday evening ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An encampment in the heart of Edmonton as seen on November 15, 2022. (Kory Siegers/CBC - image credit) Edmonton advocates are ...

Last winter, Cleo Pinnock had an overnight bed at a local shelter but she had to find somewhere else to be between seven in the morning and seven at night. “It's freezing with nowhere to go — nowhere, ...

Once homeless, jobless and addicted, Hilarie Fortune is now a part of the outreach ministry at Sacred Heart Church of the First Peoples in Edmonton, Alberta. The parish planned to serve a free meal to ...

A doctor who has been working with some of Calgary's most vulnerable citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic is worried homeless shelters won't have enough space to keep everyone safe once the cold ...

A passerby discovered the frozen body of a homeless man in a park next to an Edmonton subway station February 3. It was one of the coldest nights of the year, with temperatures falling to -37 C. Apart ...

Professional hockey doesn’t get much of the spotlight in October. Not with the NFL in full swing, and certainly not with an epic World Series captivating the nation. But one of hockey’s biggest ...