Alberta News

EDMONTON — The Edmonton CFL franchise has changed its team name to Elks. The club made the announcement via livestream today.

EDMONTON — A review of Alberta's continuing-care system says demand for it will grow by two-thirds by the end of the decade.

EDMONTON — A public consultation committee on coal mining in the Rocky Mountains will consider why Albertans' level of trust in the province's regulatory bodies is so low, the panel's head said Monday.

CALGARY — For the first time in a long time in Canada, women tossed their gloves and sticks on the ice and mobbed their goaltender in celebration Sunday.

JASPER, Alta. — Parks Canada says two people have died in an avalanche on an Alberta mountain popular with climbers.

WATER VALLEY, Alta. — Alberta Fish and Wildlife Enforcement officers have captured a grizzly bear they say fatally attacked a woman while she went for an evening stroll on her property last week.

CALGARY — A drive to increase Alberta’s forest harvest as lumber prices hover at record heights is allowing members of a northern First Nation to become resource owners as well as timber-gathering contractors, says the leader of the Bigstone Cree Nat

CALGARY — Sarah Potomak scored twice in the third period to lead Calgary's Team Scotiabank over Toronto’s Team Sonnet 3-2 in the final preliminary round match at the Secret Dream Gap Tour women's hockey tournament Saturday.

CANMORE, Alta. — The racism directed at Edmonton Oilers defenceman Ethan Bear has prompted a jump in donations to an Indigenous sport organization founded by Olympic cross-country ski champion Beckie Scott.

CALGARY — Jessie Eldridge had a goal and an assist as Montreal's Team Bauer beat Calgary's Team Scotiabank 4-3 at the Secret Dream Gap Tour women's hockey tournament Friday.