Police have charged four people after 60,000 opium poppy plants were found growing in a field behind a home on the northeast ...

That’s why an early summer discovery of a farmer’s field in northeast Edmonton, filled with 60,000 growing poppy plants, was very surprising. Police estimated the value of the plants to be between ...

Section charge four people in connection to an elaborate poppy-growing operation. On July 4, 2025, the EDGE Section executed ...

Police have charged four people in connection to an opium poppy bust, which they say is worth between $160,000 and $500,000.

Police believe the discovery of 60,000 plants being grown in a field behind a rural Edmonton home is the second largest opium ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — The fields of Balkh province in northern Afghanistan were free of opium poppies this year, a success touted often by Afghan and international officials. But one look at Mohammad ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Two years after the Taliban banned opium, Afghan farmers turning to alternative crops are discovering that many no longer grow easily here because of the impact of climate ...

The poppy fields of Afghanistan are expected to produce bumper crops of opium in the next three or four months, to be turned into heroin and morphine to feed the cravings of desperate addicts in ...

The U.S. and British governments plan to spend millions of dollars over the next two months to try to persuade Afghan farmers not to plant opium poppy, by far the country's most profitable cash crop ...