The two families were displaced after a fire in the 5800 block of 138 Street damaged five homes early Tuesday morning.

The Edmonton Police Service has cancelled an Amber Alert for an eight-year-old boy who they say was abducted by his mother from Waverley Elementary School on Friday afternoon.

The developers looking to build 15- and 18-storey towers in Edmonton's historic Old Strathcona neighbourhood have been given approval to do so even though the area is zoned for only medium-height buildings.