Alberta News

EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers have work to do to keep their hard-won advantage from withering away in their playoff series against the Vegas Golden Knights.

EDMONTON — Row after row of Canadian flags fly high atop tall poles over manicured lawns in a southern Alberta town that's also home to the province's premier, her husband and their dog. Kathleen Sokvitne has lived on the street in High River, Alta.

EDMONTON — An own goal gave the Edmonton Oilers a chance at another come-from-behind win in the NHL playoffs, but an own goal in the last second of the game took it away.

CALGARY — Haul trucks, shovels, pumps and pipes are common sights at Imperial Oil's vast oilsands operations in northeastern Alberta, but so too are robots and drones, with generative artificial intelligence a newer addition to the technological mix.

MONTREAL — As Alberta flirts with the possibility of a referendum on separation, Quebec sovereigntists are watching with interest — and a healthy dose of skepticism.

CALGARY — Alberta's two big-city mayors say a separation referendum would be "devastating" to their local economies and is a needless distraction during a period in which the country should be focused on unity.

An intra-provincial rivalry will kick off the 2025 Canadian Elite Basketball League season. The Edmonton Stingers will host the Calgary Surge in the first CEBL game of the year on Sunday.

LAS VEGAS — The Edmonton Oilers head home from Las Vegas with the odds in their favour. Teams that win the first two games of a best-of-seven series that starts on the road are 88-22 for a winning percentage of .800, according to the NHL.

EDMONTON — Alberta's chief electoral officer is warning the government that proposed legislation will impair the election commissioner's power to investigate election rule breaking.

EDMONTON — Alberta's access to information watchdog has found the provincial government to be non-compliant with its own freedom of information rules.