Effective July 6, Alberta provincial courts will be increasing the number of criminal, family and youth and civil matters that can be heard in-person.

A criminal law firm is warning that the extension of measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 in Alberta's courthouses will worsen a backlog that existed before the pandemic.

Effective March 30, Alberta Courts are tightening restrictions around who can and cannot enter courthouses due to the novel coronavirus health crisis.

Rooco Ltd., an Alberta-based company that fought drivers' traffic tickets in court, has shut down. Many customers wonder if they'll have to pay their ticket twice.

An Alberta Justice official has confirmed Global News reports that court staff told people tissues and water would no longer be provided, but she says they were "mistaken." 

Fort McKay First Nation has been negotiating for two decades with the province to protect Moose Lake, west of the townsite.

The Crown is appealing the sentences imposed on one of the men who killed two Edmonton Mac's clerks. On Oct. 4, Colton Steinhauer filed a notice of appeal.

Robert John Sheppard was back in court on Tuesday as the Crown and defence read closing arguments.

The medical examiner who did an autopsy on an 18-month-old boy says there was no suggestion a lack of oxygen had anything to do with the child's death.

A naturopath has testified she recommended an Alberta couple take their toddler to an emergency room before he died of bacterial meningitis.