Calgary City Council has unanimously approved amendments to the Business Licence Bylaw for short-term rentals (STR). The amendments aim to balance housing affordability, safety, community impact and enforcement while continuing to support property owners and the economic benefits short-term rentals bring to the city. Changes will come into effect on April 1, 2025. “Calgary has...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Mark Burnett, the power producer who helped reintroduce Donald Trump to a national television audience with “The Apprentice,” is being tapped by the president-elect as special envoy to the United Kingdom in his upcoming administration. “With a distinguished career in television production and business, Mark brings a unique blend...
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico prosecutors won’t pursue an appeal of a court’s decision to dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting on a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie, the Santa Fe district attorney’s office announced Monday. Special Prosecutor Kari Morrissey withdrew the appeal of...
Beyoncé provided more excitement than either game during Netflix’s NFL debut on Christmas Day. Riding into her halftime appearance on a white horse, the 32-time Grammy winner rocked her hometown Houston crowd with a nearly 13-minute performance on Wednesday. She surprised fans by bringing out Shaboozey to perform “Sweet Honey Buckiin” and Post Malone joined...
LONDON (AP) — Olivia Hussey, the actor who starred as a teenage Juliet in the 1968 film “Romeo and Juliet,” has died, her family said on social media Saturday. She was 73. Hussey died on Friday, “peacefully at home surrounded by her loved ones,” a statement posted to her Instagram account said. Hussey was 15...
Dayle Haddon, an actor, activist and trailblazing former “Sports Illustrated” model who pushed back against age discrimination by reentering the industry as a widow, has died in a Pennsylvania home from what authorities believe was carbon monoxide poisoning. Authorities in Bucks County found Haddon, 76, dead in a second-floor bedroom Friday morning after emergency dispatchers...
Jess Kondas was home for the holidays in Calgary when the phone rang with the best early Christmas present she could have imagined. After an entire calendar year on the Toronto Sceptres three-player reserve list, there finally was a spot on the roster for the 24-year-old defender to make her Professional Women’s Hockey League debut. She didn’t...
Lethbridge police say a body found in a motel room on Saturday is being treated as suspicious, the second sudden death in three days. Officers say they were on the scene of a Superlodge along the 2200 block of 7 Avenue South. However, no additional details about the death have been shared at this time....
Jonathan Huberdeau scored twice and the Calgary Flames beat San Jose 3-1 on Saturday night, handing the Sharks their seventh straight loss. Mikael Backlund also scored and Nazem Kadri had two assists for the Flames, and Dustin Wolf had 21 saves. Macklin Celebrini got his 12th goal of the season for San Jose, and Yaroslav Askarov stopped...
Calgary police are investigating after a man was shot in the leg in downtown Saturday. Officers say they responded to reports of gunshots fired by Reconciliation Bridge near the Drop-in Centre at around 7:30 p.m. They found a man with gunshot wounds, who was then rushed to hospital, adding he was in stable condition Three...