Alberta News

CALGARY — Lynda Kiejko will follow in her father's footsteps to the Asaka Shooting Range in Tokyo. The 40-year-old Calgarian will be Canada's lone athlete in sport shooting at the Summer Olympics opening July 23.

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — Brett Kemp and Lukas Svejkovsky both scored twice and the Medicine Hat Tigers toppled the Lethbridge Hurricanes 6-2 on Thursday in Western Hockey League play.

EDMONTON — An aggressive style and timely goaltending paid off for the Calgary Flames on Thursday night. The effort also improved their chances of catching Montreal for the final playoff spot in the North Division.

CALGARY — Team Germany has been medically cleared to compete at the 2021 World Women's Curling Championship after two positive COVID-19 tests earlier in the week.

EDMONTON — Alberta is targeting COVID-19 hot spots with tighter restrictions that include at-home learning for junior and senior high school students and a ban on indoor fitness and sports.

Ontario marked a grim COVID-19 milestone Thursday as its virus-related death toll passed 8,000 and Alberta brought in tighter public-health measures to try to get rapidly rising infection rates in hot spots under control.

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — Almost five years after a massive wildfire forced the evacuation of Fort McMurray, Alta., the northeastern Alberta oilsands hub is in another state of emergency.

HIGH RIVER, Alta. — Jamie Welsh-Rollo was all smiles Thursday as COVID-19 vaccination clinics began at two of Canada's largest beef-packing plants in southern Alberta.

CALGARY — A veteran member of the Calgary Police Service has been charged under Alberta's privacy act.

Threatened caribou herds in Alberta and British Columbia have lost twice as much habitat as they've gained over the last twenty years and the pace of loss is picking up, new research says.