An office assistant was fined $4,000 for snooping into two people's health records while she worked at a medical clinic in Edmonton's Terwillegar area.

The numbers reveal that cases where all the charges were withdrawn have been steadily rising since the 2015/2016 fiscal year.

An Alberta father made a lengthy, rambling speech in court Tuesday ahead of his sentencing for sexually assaulting his three daughters.

Sobbing could be heard in court on Friday as the defence lawyer for a senior accused of killing his son-in-law in 2016 delivered his closing remarks.

Eric Lestar was sentenced to four years and three months in prison, and banned from driving for five years, after he drove drunk and caused a crash that killed 50-year-old Joann Christou in north Edmonton last year.

Eric Lestar, 21, pleaded guilty to impaired driving causing death in a collision last year which left Joann Christou, a 50-year-old mother and wife, dead in north Edmonton. 

Omar Khadr's visits with his controversial sister will remain restricted, but he has been granted more freedom to use the internet. 

Travis Vader's lawyer filed a notice of appeal Friday. The document explains the defence is appealing Vader's manslaughter conviction and life sentence.

The second-degree murder case in Gina Robinson's 2014 death was scheduled to go to trial twice, but both times the accused fired his lawyer at the last minute; most recently, last week.

One day shy of her 39th birthday, Trinna Sowan pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2013 homicide of a Edmonton senior who was found beaten, bound and gagged in his home.