Alberta News

CALGARY — The Calgary Board of Education is asking a judge to dismiss a proposed class-action lawsuit against it, arguing that it's not responsible for alleged sexual misconduct by a teacher who died earlier this year.

DUNMORE, ALBERTA — A teacher at a high school in southeast Alberta has been charged following allegations she sexually assaulted a student over a number of months earlier this year.

CALGARY — Kaiden Guhle has been named Canada's captain for the upcoming world junior hockey championship.

EDMONTON — Alberta is reporting a total of 1,045 cases of the COVID-19 Omicron variant. The province says there were 1,925 new COVID-19 cases over the weekend. It says 627 new cases of COVID-19 were reported Friday, 721 on Saturday and 577 on Sunday.

CALGARY — Hockey Canada has withdrawn its team from the Spengler Cup. Canada often competes in the European club-based tournament based in Davos, Switzerland, sending a squad of Canadians selected off European pro teams along with some free agents.

CALGARY — Ben King scored 57 seconds into overtime and Connor Ungar made 47 saves to lead the Red Deer Rebels past the Calgary Hitmen 3-2 in the Western Hockey League Sunday.

LA VILLA, Italy (AP) — A slightly different wax job or a bit sharper ski edges can mean all the difference in a sport decided by hundredths of a second. So, too, can a slight alteration to the ski boots.

WETASKIWIN, Alta. — A tent lies mangled on a pile of soot where a fire burned down part of a homeless encampment in a central Alberta city.

CALGARY — A man who lost his wife when an all-terrain tour bus rolled at the Columbia Icefield in the Rocky Mountains is pressing the RCMP for answers about what happened.

RED DEER, Alberta (AP) — Pre-tournament play in the world junior hockey was pushed back Saturday because of the COVID-19 surge.