Alberta News

EDMONTON — It's not often an NHL head coach speaks positively of going through a stretch of nine losses in 10 games as his team approaches the playoffs.

CALGARY — The costs of Alberta's growing stock of abandoned and inactive oil and gas wells are falling unfairly on landowners and taxpayers, says a report from the University of Calgary.

RED DEER, Alta. — A man charged in the slaying of a family doctor at a central Alberta medical clinic made a brief court appearance Thursday in advance of his trial later this year.

CALGARY — What it will take to take to get women's professional hockey in North America out of a "slurve" seems to be more time, talk and trust.

EDMONTON — The Winnipeg Jets contained the NHL's top two scorers and their goaltender Connor Hellebuyck did the rest in a 4-1 win Wednesday over the Edmonton Oilers to open their first-round playoff series. Hellebuyck was stellar with 32 saves.

CALGARY — It wasn't exactly the way he imagined it, but for Connor Mackey, scoring his first NHL goal was still a great feeling. “It’s pretty special," said the 24-year-old Calgary Flames defenceman.

EDMONTON — Alberta's education minister says all kindergarten to Grade 12 students, other than some in northern Alberta, can return to schools following the May long weekend.

EDMONTON — Alberta's inquiry into the funding of oil and gas industry critics is getting another deadline extension.

EDMONTON — The Alberta government says a new jobs program will encourage private and non-profit businesses to hire staff over the next year and help the economy recover.

Manitoba is not ready to follow Quebec's lead in allowing hockey fans to attend NHL playoff games, while Alberta is opening the doors for 12 front-line health workers to watch the Canadian post-season opener on Wednesday in Edmonton.