Alberta News

CALGARY — Valérie Maltais earned her third gold medal at the Canadian long-track speedskating championships on Sunday. Maltais won the women's mass start crown for a second consecutive year on the final day of competition at the Olympic Oval.

EDMONTON — The road to the Stanley Cup has gone through Edmonton the last two NHL campaigns. The Oilers fell to eventual champion Colorado Avalanche in the Western Conference final in 2021-22.

CALGARY — Valérie Maltais and Connor Howe had the golden touch in their respective 1,500-metre races on the third day of the Canadian long-track speedskating championships on Saturday. Maltais, of La Baie, Que.

HINTON, Alta. — RCMP in Alberta say two 14-year-old boys have died in a single-vehicle crash. Police say the crash happened Friday just southwest of Hinton. RCMP Const.

EDMONTON — Jack Campbell has laid his claim to be the starting goaltender for the Edmonton Oilers once again. Campbell made 35 saves as the Oilers closed out pre-season play with a 3-1 victory over the Seattle Kraken on Friday.

CALGARY — Ivanie Blondin, Connor Howe, Isabelle Weidemann and Ted-Jan Bloemen, all Olympians, won gold on Friday at the Canadian long-track speedskating championships. Blondin, from Ottawa, won the women's 1,000-metre event in one minute 15.

KANANASKIS, Alta. — Several bear warnings and area closures are in place in the Canadian Rockies in Alberta after some surprise encounters with both black and grizzly bears.

EDMONTON — Alberta’s auditor general says he will investigate what went wrong with the United Conservative Party government’s abandoned plan to privatize community lab testing provincewide.

EDMONTON — Police say a man has died in hospital after he was arrested in Edmonton. They say the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team, which investigates police in the province, was notified of the man’s death Tuesday.

CALGARY — The CEO of Enbridge Inc. is calling on the federal government to create a national Indigenous loan guarantee program to help First Nations communities in Canada acquire equity stakes in major resource and infrastructure projects.