Alberta News

CALGARY — A mid-season coaching change in a short season didn't ignite the Calgary Flames. Calgary (26-27-3) finished fifth in the North Division and four points out of a playoff berth.

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.