Why I quit my day job to become a Bitcoin miner.

A pipeline owned by Paramount Resources Ltd. released an estimated 100,000 litres of crude oil and 190,000 litres of produced water near Zama City, in northwest Alberta, according to an April 11 incident report filed with the Alberta Energy Regulator.

After several years and nearly $100 million of research, engineers say they have developed new technology to extract valuable metals from the waste produced by the oilsands in northern Alberta. Canadian Natural Resources and Titanium Corp. have a proposal to construct a $400-million facility at CNR's Horizon oilsands site to produce titanium and zircon from the materials left over from bitumen production.

After several years and nearly $100 million of research and testing, engineers say they have developed new technology to extract valuable metals from waste products in the Alberta oilsands.

Bill Pendergast has spent the last two years rebuilding his home, which burnt down when a wildfire raged through Fort McMurray, Alberta. Now, he is $1 million richer and able to finish restoring his family home thanks to the Atlantic Lotto.

Candidates will no longer have to pay a $1,000 deposit to stand in federal elections. Citing “openness and fairness,” democratic institutions minister Karina Gould said Monday the government will not appeal an Alberta court decision last month that found the requirement unconstitutional.

Alberta’s oil and gas industry – Canada’s largest producer of fossil fuel resources – could be emitting 25 to 50% more methane than previously believed, new research has suggested. The pioneering peer reviewed study, published in Environmental Science & Technology on Tuesday, used airplane surveys to measure methane emissions from oil and gas infrastructure in two regions in Alberta.

Workers have dipped nets and a naturally occurring chemical into a storm water retention pond near Edmonton in a bid to kill thousands of unwanted goldfish that have made the water body home. Officials say the aquatic invaders are the result of goldfish reproducing after people released their unwanted pets into the wild or flushed them down the toilet.

A photo of a man in Alberta mowing a lawn with a tornado swirling behind him has been causing a bit of a storm on social media. Cecilia Wessels snapped the picture of her husband, Theunis, on Friday evening as the twister passed near their home in Three Hills. She says cutting the grass was on her husband's to-do list, and as he started the task, she went for a nap.

On a Monday afternoon in June 2015, Angela Cardinal was led into an Edmonton courtroom handcuffed and in leg shackles. Metallic rattling echoed as a sheriff escorted the 28-year-old to the witness stand. She was not the accused, but rather a victim — called to testify at a preliminary hearing after she was savagely attacked and sexually assaulted by a notorious sexual predator. Cardinal was angry about being locked up.

Former Alberta premier Jim Prentice has died in a plane crash in B.C. The crash, which killed all four people on board, happened near Kelowna, B.C. at 9:40 p.m. local time Thursday night. The small plane was en route to Calgary. “Devastated to learn of the death of my friend & former colleague @JimPrentice,” former Foreign Affairs minister John Baird tweeted at 12:59 pm. “My thoughts & prayers are with his wife Karen and his family.”

A little fish and chip shop in Lethbridge, Alta., on the brink of closing its doors is now flooded with new customers — and it’s all thanks to one very hungry, hungover man.

On the heels of a damning report by Canada's prison watchdog on how Correctional Service Canada deals with families when an inmate dies, an Ottawa man says he didn't learn of his brother's death in an Alberta prison until after he was cremated. Joel Pinkus says in February 2015, his mother received a package at her North Gower, Ont., home, located about 40 kilometres outside Ottawa, containing the cremated remains of his brother Martin Pinkus, who was serving a life sentence for second-degree murder at a federal prison in Drumheller, Alta.

The massive Fort McMurray wildfire that led to a mass evacuation of the northern Alberta city has become the costliest disaster for insurers in Canadian history, according to the Insurance Bureau of Canada.

The flagship first bill of Alberta’s new NDP government that bans corporate and union donations to political parties has passed in the legislature. Opponents, however, say much work remains to be done to close the loopholes. Bill 1, An Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, passed unanimously in third reading late Monday night, and when signed into law will ban donations retroactively to June 15. “It puts the power back in the hands of Alberta citizens rather than those with the deepest pockets in terms of determining the political future of this province,” Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley said Tuesday.

How one Fort McMurray family built a dream and watched it burn. By Katherine Laidlaw. (May 17, ’16)

Authorities in Canada's wildfire-ravaged energy heartland have lifted evacuation orders on Suncor Energy Inc and Syncrude oil sites after rain and cold weather helped dampen the flames.

See how the size of a fire some called ‘the beast’ compares to the size of Canadian cities

The Trudeau government has yet to respond to an offer by Russia to dispatch massive water bombers and fire fighting specialists to battle the growing inferno around Fort McMurray, Alta. The proposal was made late last week by Vladimir Puchkov, the Russian minister of emergency measures. A spokesman for Russia’s embassy in Ottawa, Kirill Kalinin, said Sunday that they continue to stand “ready to help our Canadian partners to fight the ongoing wildfires in Alberta.”

Near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, May 7, 2016.