A father has been charged after allegedly leaving his seven-year-old son in a vehicle in the Pure Casino parking lot for hours when the temperature was -24C

A Calgary man has been charged with child abandonment following a Calgary Police Service investigation into his alleged decision to leave his seven-year-old son in a vehicle outside a casino on Sunday.

Calgarians ticketed during snow route parking ban frustrated, say street not plowed

Residents of a home in Calgary’s southeast neighbourhood of Ogden are collectively facing a hefty bill after getting five separate parking tickets.

Four family members and one visiting friend told Global News they weren’t aware Calgary’s recent snow route parking ban until it was too late. Chantelle MacAllister said they found out about it each driver parked on the street outside got ticketed.

Mark Giordano leads Calgary Flames to 5-2 win over Arizona Coyotes

Mark Giordano’s goal and assist paced the Calgary Flames to a 5-2 win over the visiting Arizona Coyotes on Monday.

Derek Ryan, Austin Czarnik and Michael Frolik also scored for the hosts with Mikael Backlund adding an empty-net goal in the matinee. Defenceman Rasmus Andersson contributed a pair of assists.

5 Things You Need to Know About Dental Implant Surgery

When it comes to receiving dental treatment, one word you don’t want to hear is ‘implant’ – it often causes a lot of doubt. Not only does the term ‘dental implant surgery’ sound quite worrying the process, when described, is likely to cause some alarm. 

4 Calgary schools locked down as police respond to swatting calls

Four schools across Calgary were locked down on Monday after threats were sent to them in what police are calling a series of swatting calls. Calgary police had previously said five schools had been put in lockdown. Investigators believe the calls were computer-generated.

Heart problems can affect your brain too, report says

For nearly a decade, Jillianne Code’s heart wasn’t operating at capacity.

She had heart failure, meaning that her heart wasn’t pumping enough blood to meet her body’s needs — working at a tiny fraction of normal capacity when she was first hospitalized at 27 years old.

Obesity-related cancers rising in U.S. young adults

Millennials were nearly five times as likely as baby boomers to develop cancer of the kidneys

If the obesity epidemic continues, there could be an explosion of fat-sensitive cancers in the years to come. (designer491/Shutterstock)

Mirroring the decades-long increase in obesity rates in the U.S., cancers that are thought to be driven at least in part by excess weight are also on the rise among people under age 50, a new study suggests.