Новости за 15.08.2020

Businesses on Whyte Avenue that rely heavily on foot traffic from festivals have had to pivot since COVID-19 forced the cancellation of large events.

A vigil was held in Red Deer on Friday night to pay tribute to a doctor who was brutally killed at the walk-in clinic he worked at. Sarah Komadina reports.

Floyd, a handcuffed Black man, died after a white officer, Derek Chauvin, pressed his knee against Floyd's neck for nearly eight minutes on May 25 as Floyd repeatedly said he could not breathe and as bystanders pleaded with officers to help him.

Despite increased pressure from families like John McCall's and others, Ottawa has yet to loosen the limits on who is allowed to enter the country.

Saskatoon police arrested a 37-year-old robbery suspect after chasing him through yards on Friday night.

Two people are in hospital following an incident late Friday where a pickup truck hit workers repairing train tracks east of Edmonton.

Francis, speaking to a crowd gathered at St. Peter's Square on an official Catholic feast day, said he was closely following negotiations between the three countries over the dam.

A huge forest fire that prompted evacuations north of Los Angeles flared up Friday afternoon, sending up an enormous cloud of smoke as it headed down to the desert floor and the California aqueduct in the Antelope Valley.

The Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service is warning people about the dangers of a wood-burning fireplace after dousing a blaze at home on Friday night.

The closure took effect at 11 p.m. Friday and is expected to remain in place until 5 a.m. Monday.

One motorcyclist died after he and two other drivers were cut off by a truck in Saint-Nazaire-d'Acton, in Montérégie, police say.

Despite policies on the books for years that require officers across the United States to stop colleagues from using excessive force, there has been little or no effort to teach officers how to intervene, law enforcement officials and experts say.

With soaring costs and lower revenues, restaurants are being forced to get creative about how to feed the bottom line.

The opposition party has said they would like the election delayed in the hope that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern loses some of her lustre once hardships caused by an extended lockdown begin to bite.

One flight was to Toronto, one arrived from Edmonton and one arrived from New Delhi.

A community in northern Alberta is investigating whether one of its employees made a racist comment in a private group on Facebook.

The new numbers bring the country's total cases and deaths from COVID-19 to 121,605 and 9,020, respectively

Here’s Jesse Beyer’s Friday, Aug. 14, 2020 Global News at 6 weather forecast for Edmonton, Alberta and the surrounding area.

The City of Lethbridge has rolled out a new online portal that allows residents to see where power outages are happening and what the status of the outage is on an interactive map.

"In every case, once identified ... management, staff, and linked hospital team resolved to correct the issue within the resources available."

A webcast of Global News Hour at 6 Edmonton with Breanna Karstens-Smith and Gord Steinke from Friday, Aug. 14, 2020.

Firefighters were called to the 100 block of Chaparral Terrace S.E. at about 3 p.m. for reports of a fire.

"There's so many things you can do the hiking is fantastic, the mountain flowers, the alpine flowers are just fantastic this time of year."

The Edmonton Minor Hockey Association has outlined how teams will play this season. To start, there will be more cleaning and no traditional games . Fletcher Kent reports.

It’s been just over a week since the deadly explosion in Beirut killed more than 170 people and its effects continue to radiate into Edmonton’s Lebanese community. One Edmonton man with close ties to those in the country is raising funds for the families of the first responders who died in the blast. Chris Chacon...