Alberta News

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Mikael Backlund, Dennis Gilbert, Nazem Kadri and Blake Coleman scored and the Calgary Flames outlasted the Philadelphia Flyers 4-3 on Sunday night. Jacob Markstrom made 27 saves to help the Flames improve to 15-16-5.

CALGARY — With two of the Calgary Flames' three highest-paid forwards mired in prolonged slumps, coach Ryan Huska flip-flopped their lines on Sunday and the shuffle paid off.

EDMONTON — A passenger on a transit bus in Edmonton is in critical condition after police say she fell out the vehicle's back door.

CALGARY — Parents started showing up at Calgary hospitals with sick children on Sept. 1, the Friday before the Labour Day weekend. The numbers grew on Saturday. By Sunday, as more and more children fell ill, the first case of Shiga toxin-producing E.

EDMONTON — The City of Edmonton says it has closed another homeless encampment that it considers high-risk.

EDMONTON — Premier Danielle Smith is set to take scalpel and bone saw to Alberta's $17-billion health-delivery system in 2024, while simultaneously scrambling to keep and find more family doctors.

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — Logan McCutcheon had the shootout winner as the Lethbridge Hurricanes defeated the Red Deer Rebels 2-1 on Friday in Western Hockey League action.

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — Mounties have ended a weeks-long search for a man wanted in a killing in northern Alberta. Wood Buffalo RCMP responded Dec. 5 to a firearms complaint in the community, 60 kilometres north of Fort McMurray.

An Edmonton man who died with his wife and eight-year-old son after their utility terrain vehicle went into a lake wasn't the kind of person to put his family at risk, says a friend.

CALGARY — The Calgary Stampeders have signed defensive back Rodney Randle Jr. after his stint with the NFL's New England Patriots.