Alberta News

CALGARY — Despite negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on production and costs, rising prices for gold are expected to buoy results as Canada's precious metals miners begin rolling out second-quarter financial results next week.

CALGARY — Rising prices for gold are expected to buoy results as Canada's precious metals miners begin rolling out second-quarter financial results next week.

EDMONTON — The group that owns the Edmonton Oilers says damage to its arena from heavy rainfall won't affect plans to use Rogers Place as an NHL hub when the season re-opens.

EDMONTON — Alberta has surpassed more than 100 new daily COVID-19 infections for the first time in more than two months, but the province's top doctor said the spike, while worrying, does not warrant another shutdown.

TORONTO — Alberta heavyweight Tanner (The Bulldozer) Boser, who is fighting on short notice as an injury replacement on the UFC's July 25 card in Abu Dhabi, has signed a contract extension covering four more fights with the UFC.

CALGARY — Two adults and a teen from Ottawa have been charged with murder in the death of a man in a south Calgary park earlier this week. Police officers were sent out on Tuesday after witnesses reported a man inside a parked vehicle had been shot.

CALGARY — The family of an Alberta man believed to have been murdered earlier this year is pleading with the public to help find his remains. Shane Eric James Smith, 20, of Chestermere, west of Calgary, was reported missing June 7th.

EDMONTON — The Alberta government has ended its funding agreement with a supervised drug consumption site in Lethbridge after an audit showed financial irregularities.

EDMONTON — Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro says it's not true that doctors are quitting or withdrawing services in large numbers because of changes to fees and billing.

JOHN DOR PRAIRIE, Alta. — Mounties say human remains found in northern Alberta are those of a 15-year-old girl who had been reported missing.