Alberta News

LONDON, Ont. — Alberta's Kevin Koe needed an extra end to complete a 9-7 victory over Reid Carruthers of Wild Card 2 at the Tim Hortons Brier. Koe made a short in-off for a deuce to improve to 4-0 after seven draws of round-robin play.

CALGARY — The surging Minnesota Wild continue to ride the coattails of their red hot goaltending. Filip Gustavsson had 31 saves Saturday night to backstop the Wild to a 3-0 victory over the Calgary Flames.

CALGARY — Nadiia Bashynska and Peter Beaumont of Ajax, Ont., capped a successful season with the bronze medal in ice dancing on Saturday to conclude the ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships.

EDMONTON — The Canadian lunar rover could soon help reveal the moon's dark side.

CALGARY — Despite sitting fourth after Friday's rhythm dance at the ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships, Nadiia Bashynska and Peter Beaumont of Ajax, Ontario, are not losing any sleep or confidence.

EDMONTON — When you have teammates like Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl, it is pretty easy to be overshadowed, but Ryan Nugent-Hopkins continues to step into the spotlight in a career year.

Alberta didn't live up to the terms of a deal it has with the Northwest Territories to inform it about threats to its shared watershed after two major oilsands tailings spills, the territory's environment minister said Friday.

EDMONTON — A man who worked as a correctional program officer is accused of sexually assaulting an inmate at the federal Edmonton Institution for Women.

CALGARY — The Calgary Flames' trade deadline deals Friday included the NHL's first swap of brothers. The Flames got Nick Ritchie from the Arizona Coyotes and sent his older brother Brett to the desert.

EDMONTON — Ken Holland thinks the Edmonton Oilers got "pretty close" to fulfilling their trade-deadline wish list, despite being up against the salary cap.