Brett McKay is a journalist based in Edmonton. This story was originally published by the Investigative Journalism Foundation and was made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative. The UCP ...

Once when I was a young reporter, I had occasion to interview the head of the Montana Highway Patrol. The state had just ...

Alberta launched its own border patrol last year to help stop the flow of illegal drugs and migrants across what Premier Danielle Smith called the “leaky” U.S. border. But the Interdiction Patrol Team ...

Along the Canada-U.S. border runs a remote stretch of road that some County of Warner residents in southern Alberta have used freely for decades. There's just one problem. It's on the American side of ...