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CALGARY — The last-place Chicago Blackhawks ended an eight-game losing skid on Tuesday and, at the same time, dealt the Calgary Flames' playoff hopes a crippling blow.

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her United Conservative Party is paying for legal actionshe is consideringagainst the CBC, which the Opposition NDP says raises the question of whether the government rejected pursuing the lawsuit.

EDMONTON — The Alberta government waited a month before calling an emergency response to one of the biggest releases of oilsands tailings in the province's history, a leaked document shows.

EDMONTON — The Alberta government wants 100 more street-level police officers hired over the next year and a half as part of a plan to tackle increased violence on the public transit systems of Edmonton and Calgary.

CALGARY — Frantisek Formanek's goal 46 seconds into the second period stood up as the winner Monday night as the visiting Red Deer Rebels defeated the Calgary Hitmen 4-2 in Western Hockey League playoff action.

CALGARY — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she will no longer speak about her involvement in how COVID-19 court cases are being prosecuted.

FORT MCKAY, ALBERTA — Oilsands giant Syncrude Canada Ltd. has been charged in the death of a worker north of Fort McMurray, Alta.

Calgary announced a new action plan Monday to make its transit system safer after two women were stabbed last week at a light rail transit station.

CALGARY — Canada may have to consider updating future supports for Ukrainians seeking refuge from war, federal Immigration Minister Sean Fraser said Monday.

EDMONTON — The birds we see today are the predecessor of a dinosaur that learned to fly and survived mass extinction 66 million years ago, but little is known about their transition.