Alberta asked to twin highway into northeastern oilpatch

COLD LAKE — The mayor of a northeastern Alberta community is calling on the province to twin another busy highway.

Craig Copeland in Cold Lake says increasing traffic is making Highway 28 just as dangerous as the notorious Highway 63, a road with a high collision rate that is currently being twinned.

this week

• SLIDESHOW — Police deploy smoke bombs at apartment incident • May-23-2013
• Special police unit seizes drugs on first raid • May-22-2013
• Warrants issued for suspects in carjacking near Blackfalds • May-17-2013
• No arrests in armed standoff • May-23-2013
• Woman dies in Saturday rollover • May-20-2013
• Man pulled from Gull Lake after boat capsizes • May-21-2013
• RCMP charge two more men with murder • May-17-2013
• Second suspect in standoff hunted • May-23-2013
• Man stabbed in Red Deer apartment • May-17-2013
• Remains identified as those of Rocky man • May-17-2013

last week

• SLIDESHOW — Red Deer standoff ends peacefully • May-14-2013
• Man crosses river to save woman • May-09-2013
• Man faces multiple charges following Tuesday standoff • May-15-2013
• Flames force evacuations • May-13-2013
• Camera captures thievery • May-10-2013
• Red Deer College suspends 6 programs, cuts 32 jobs • May-09-2013
• Man stabbed in Red Deer park • May-14-2013
• Nordegg residents remain on alert • May-10-2013
• Case of missing Red Deer pig must close by June • May-14-2013
• RDC students scramble after programs cut • May-10-2013

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