Alberta News

EDMONTON — An NHL scouting job came to Brigette Lacquette at a time when she needed it. She's the first Indigenous woman to scout for an NHL team. Her employer is the Chicago Blackhawks.

EDMONTON — Alberta more than doubled its active COVID-19 case count in a week, while recording its highest single-day increase of new infections.

EDMONTON — The continued forfeiture of games due to the COVID-19 virus ended the world junior men's hockey championship in Alberta after just four days.

EDMONTON — Alberta's energy minister says she has received two reports that will determine the future of coal mining in the province's Rocky Mountain foothills and eastern slopes.

Emergency responders are clearing the scenes of two Canadian Pacific Railway train derailments in Western Canada. CP said in a statement that a freight train carrying potash went off the tracks Tuesday evening near Craven, Sask., northwest of Regina.

BARONS, Alta. — Mounties are on the scene of a train derailment in southern Alberta. RCMP say the Canadian Pacific Rail train had an engine derail at 9:30 a.m. and some empty fuel cars tipped over near Barons, Alta., north of Lethbridge.

EDMONTON — A second game in as many days was forfeited Wednesday at the world junior men's hockey championship because of COVID-19.

EDMONTON — It was a speech that symbolized Alberta's pandemic politics in 2021: Premier Jason Kenney’s boastful, bullhorn-loud, first-out-of-the-gate victory whoop over COVID-19 preceding a crushing hospital crisis.

RCMP say two people have died from carbon monoxide poisoning in northern Alberta.

EDMONTON — Canada's Connor Bedard became the youngest player to score four goals in a single world junior men's hockey championship game on Tuesday. The 16-year-old from North Vancouver, B.C.