Alberta News

CALGARY — Alberta's oilsands are maintaining production levels with critical staff only as operators try to minimize the workforce impact of the highly contagious Omicron variant.

EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers have placed Kailer Yamamoto in the NHL's COVID-19 protocol after the forward tested positive on a rapid test. Yamamoto was pulled from the Oilers' practice Friday after recording the positive result.

CALGARY — The Calgary Stampeders have agreed to a restructured contract with star quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell.

CALGARY — Canada's chronically understaffed agriculture industry is warning that increased absenteeism related to the highly contagious Omicron variant could severely stress this country's food production systems. Already, there are signs of strain.

CALGARY — A worker was killed and two others injured in a truck crash at Suncor Energy Inc.'s Base Mine site near Fort McMurray, Alta on Thursday. The incident occurred around 6:30 a.m.

EDMONTON — Alberta Education Minister Adriana LaGrange says students will go back to classes Monday as planned with more medical masks and COVID-19 rapid test kits.

ST. PAUL, ALBERTA — Mounties in Alberta say they are investigating a video posted on social media that shows teens in an east-central town counting down and screaming a racial slur during a New Year’s Day party. RCMP spokesman Cpl.

CALGARY — The company that owns the NHL's Calgary Flames says an agreement with the city on the construction of a new arena to replace the aging Scotiabank Saddledome has been terminated.

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says a surging wave of COVID-19 fuelled by the Omicron variant has grown to more than 30,000 active cases with 436 people in hospital with the infection.

CALGARY — Canada's women's hockey team won't play any more games before the Winter Olympics and will enter a bubble to ensure players can board a plane to Beijing in less than a month.