Gale Katchur, mayor of Fort Saskatchewan, has apologized after she was criticized for musing about the "old days" of managing feral cats by throwing them in the river or gassing them with a vehicle's exhaust pipe.

Josh Ross took home top honours Saturday with his whisky-soaked ballad of heartbreak and k.d. lang got the band back together as the Canadian Country Music Association Awards returned to Edmonton for the first time in a decade.

A grey trailer with boarded-up windows and doors was once the only homeless shelter in Slave Lake, Alta. It used to house upwards of 20 people, but it now sits empty after town council halted operations in May, then voted to close it last month.