Alberta News

EDMONTON — It might be a stretch to call a team that finished 4-14 last season and hasn’t won a home game in more than two seasons the biggest disappointment so far in the young CFL season.

CALGARY — The Calgary Stampeders need their young receivers to help get the job done on offence Saturday against the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

EDMONTON — An environmental group is calling for stronger action from Alberta's energy regulator after it announced heavy rain had caused flooding and excessive surface run-off at energy sites, including coal mines.

EDMONTON — The last of Alberta’s two bitterly fought election contests is officially over.

CALGARY — The Calgary Flames have hired Dan Lambert and Marc Savard to be assistants to new head coach Ryan Huska. Lambert spent the last four seasons as an assistant coach with the Nashville Predators.

BANFF, Alta. — A final report on a five-year project to bring plains bison back to Banff National Park in Alberta says the herd will stay on the mountain landscape.

Calgary police say they are investigating a fatal shooting in the southeast community of Forest Lawn. Officers were called to the area at about 5 a.m. Friday. They found a man suffering from what appeared to be a gunshot wound.

CALGARY — A judge has reserved his decision on bail for a man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting women in Calgary.

CALGARY — Canadian Pacific Kansas City is continuing to push ahead with efforts to develop hydrogen power as an alternative fuel source for the railway industry. The Calgary-based company, dubbed CPKC as a result of Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.

EDMONTON — Police have charged a man in the slaying of a woman in Edmonton almost three decades ago. Officers were called to the apartment of 24-year-old Joanne Ghostkeeper on Christmas Day 1996. An autopsy determined she died by strangulation.