Alberta News

CALGARY — A Chelsea Carey seven-degrees-of-separation chart might come close to connecting the skip to every curler at the Canadian women's curling championship. The two-time national champion has played with a plethora of teammates in recent years.

EDMONTON — With their pastor behind bars, an Edmonton area church held a service again Sunday where the sermon chastised other churches for bowing to COVID-19 public health restrictions.

CALGARY — Toronto Marlies forwards Tyler Gaudet and Hudson Elynuik each scored a goal and an assist in a 7-1 demolishing of the Stockton Heat in Calgary Sunday afternoon.

CALGARY — A mother whose family has been struggling financially and emotionally is giving thanks to a pet charity that helped pay for medical treatment for their injured cat during a particularly dark time.

EDMONTON — On Thursday it’s budget day in Alberta, a time that will cruelly and ironically remind residents that last year’s projected eye-popping $6.8-billion deficit was actually the good old days.

EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers superstar captain continues to amaze and get the better of his team's provincial rival.

DRUMHELLER, Alta. — RCMP say three people have been found dead of suspected drug overdoses at a residence in Drumheller, Alta. Police say officers were dispatched to the home Saturday evening in response to a 911 call about sudden deaths.

CALGARY — Varying degrees of game rust were evident on the first full day of curling at the national women's championship Saturday.

EDMONTON — Dozens of police and sheriffs kept hundreds of opponents of Alberta's pandemic restrictions separated from counterprotesters at the province's legislature on Saturday.

CALGARY — A game has been postponed at the Canadian women's curling championship after a Northwest Territories curler fell ill with suspected food poisoning. N.W.T.