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Zach Laing is the news director and senior columnist for OilersNation and the Nation Network. He is also a freelance news journalist looking for opportunities.
Zach has spent years working in a daily newsroom for the Calgary Herald and Calgary Sun covering cops, crime, politics and just about everything else you can imagine. There, he gathered in-depth knowledge of Calgary and the province of Alberta.
Based out of Edmonton, Alberta, Zach is able to write stories wherever news is happening.
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Police across Western Canada are seeing a serious spike in encounters with the dangerous street drug methamphetamine, prompting one veteran Calgary cop to compare it the surge of crack cocaine in the 1990s.“I’ve got 30 years with the police service.
As the family of a Calgary woman slain last week laid her to rest Sunday, they hope others will be able to learn from what ultimately became a deadly case of domestic violence. Hundreds gathered Sunday afternoon at a southeast chapel for Nadia El-Dib's funeral - one that was filled with tears and many good memories.
Alberta's hockey community was left reeling after 15 people on the Humboldt Broncos team bus died and another 14 were injured in a grisly crash on a Saskatchewan highway Friday. One of the Broncos players from Lethbridge who was originally listed among the dead is still on life support to donate his organs, says a former teacher of the "amazing kid."
A trail-blazing athlete known as "King Kwong" to his followers, Larry Kwong broke barriers as the first person of Chinese heritage to play in the National Hockey League. Kwong died in his Calgary home last Thursday, according to his family. He was 94.
Alberta Health Services is investigating and a family is questioning how a man arrested by RCMP and taken to hospital managed to slip out of the facility hours before being accused of killing a Stettler senior. John Roland Savage, 51, is charged with second-degree murder in the April 6 death of 70-year-old James Hulkovich.
An otherwise-quiet northeast neighbourhood erupted in pandemonium Tuesday morning when Calgary police Const. Jordan Forget was shot. Brianna, 11, was home alone when she came face-to-face with the gunman as he tried to break into her family's home.
A police constable is recovering in hospital after a gun battle Tuesday with a robbery suspect, who was found dead in a burned out garage. It's the first shooting of an on-duty Calgary officer in about 25 years, except for a fatal training incident in 2001.