Alberta News

CALGARY — The company that owns the NHL's Calgary Flames says it is backing out of the multimillion-dollar Event Centre arena complex project, citing unforeseen costs.

The twinkling of festive lights in reds, greens and golds in Alberta's two major city centres is little comfort for thousands of unhoused people trying to survive another winter cold spell.

EDMONTON — A member of the Alberta Opposition has left the NDP caucus after reporting he is involved in a criminal investigation.

The world junior hockey championships are cutting crowd capacity in half for all games, after Alberta tightened restrictions amid the surging Omicron variant.

EDMONTON — Alberta is expanding vaccine eligibility, buying more COVID-19 rapid tests and imposing new capacity limits and rules in a battle against the wildfire-fast Omicron variant.

EDMONTON — Chris Jones made it clear, over and over again, on Tuesday as he was introduced as the new coach and general manager of the Edmonton Elks — he intends to not only rebuild the football team, but entrench himself as one of the CFL’s greats.

CALGARY — The Calgary Board of Education is asking a judge to dismiss a proposed class-action lawsuit against it, arguing that it's not responsible for alleged sexual misconduct by a teacher who died earlier this year.

DUNMORE, ALBERTA — A teacher at a high school in southeast Alberta has been charged following allegations she sexually assaulted a student over a number of months earlier this year.

CALGARY — Kaiden Guhle has been named Canada's captain for the upcoming world junior hockey championship.

EDMONTON — Alberta is reporting a total of 1,045 cases of the COVID-19 Omicron variant. The province says there were 1,925 new COVID-19 cases over the weekend. It says 627 new cases of COVID-19 were reported Friday, 721 on Saturday and 577 on Sunday.