Alberta News

CALGARY — Alberta Health says it will contract out thousands of orthopedic surgeries to chartered surgical facilities in Calgary.

EDMONTON — The Alberta government says it could not find any emails to substantiate an allegation that one of Premier Danielle Smith’s staffers wrote to prosecutors to try to influence how they handled cases tied to a blockade in Coutts, Alta.

KANANASKIS, Alta. — The Stoney Nakoda First Nation in southwestern Alberta is using the written word as a way to preserve its traditional oral language.

CALGARY — Johnny Gaudreau returned to the NHL city that accelerated him to league stardom for the first time since he left.

EDMONTON — A self-styled spiritual leader has been charged with four counts of sexual assault stemming from separate occasions between 2017 and 2020.

Alberta's Kayla Skrlik and New Brunswick's Andrea Kelly won their respective provincial women's curling championship finals Sunday to gain entry into the Scotties Tournament of Hearts. They join Clancy Grandy (B.C.

CALGARY — Eileen Gu's halfpipe is ready for the Winter X Games. The 19-year-old freestyle skier won her second World Cup in Calgary with Canada's Rachael Karker taking a second silver behind Gu on Saturday night.

CALGARY — After getting off to a terrific start on Saturday afternoon, the Calgary Flames weren't about to let a 48-second lapse in the second period undo that.

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has asked for an email search this weekend to determine if her staff have been contacting Crown prosecutors and interfering in cases involving the Coutts, Alta., border crossing blockade.

The Canada Border Services Agency says there are alternatives to holding immigration detainees in provincial jails after Alberta said it would no longer do so.