Kabi Moulitharan

2 weeks ago | globalnews.ca | Kabi Moulitharan

An Edmonton Police Service officer was acquitted by a jury on Wednesday, after he was accused of assaulting a man with a baton while trying to arrest him more than five years ago. Const. Alexander ( Alex) Doduk was found not guilty of assault with a weapon and assault causing bodily harm in connection with an encounter he had with Edmonton man Justin LaFrance in November of 2019.

3 weeks ago | globalnews.ca | Kabi Moulitharan

The City of Edmonton is moving into the second of three phases of its accelerated roadwork this summer, to make room for the 14-kilometre second leg of the Valley Line LRT from the downtown core to the west end. The city elected to shut down select intersections so the builder, Marigold Infrastructure Partners, can get work done about twice as fast as previously expected, instead of maintaining access and dragging out construction for a few more years.

3 weeks ago | globalnews.ca | Kabi Moulitharan

A resident of Diamond Valley, Alta., a town roughly an hour south of Calgary, is prepared to gift Edmontonians what they've been longing for - a Stanley Cup. In this case, it's a replica. Wildfred Plester built his own Stanley Cup about 20 years ago when the Calgary Flames were in the running for the 2004 Cup. "The team at Black Diamond Industries is probably the only people that can make a claim that they've held onto a Stanley Cup for 21 years," Plester jokes.

3 weeks ago | globalnews.ca | Kabi Moulitharan

Residents in a Glenora apartment complex are the latest victims in a series of service outages linked to Telus. Since May 25, Shelby Berezan says she's been without cable and internet services. She has informed Telus multiple times about the issue. "Yesterday, I was told to be patient. Well, after nine days, we've been patient enough," she said. Bezeran says not only are there issues within individual units, but some of the building's devices have been impacted, too.

4 weeks ago | globalnews.ca | Kabi Moulitharan

A mother is making a desperate plea to try and find the driver responsible for a hit and run that took the life of her 13-year-old son. "I'm just stuck. I can't move forward," Jessa Lynch told Global News earlier this week. Her son, Adam 'AJ' Edhi, was struck by a vehicle and killed while riding his bike in southeast Edmonton on May 29, 2024. The suspect fled the scene and still hasn't been found. The incident happened at around 4 a.m. along 34th Avenue between Mill Woods Road East and 48th Street.