Local News from Alberta

The visiting Calgary Stampeders earned a 38-33 win Friday against the Edmonton Eskimos, avenging their loss in the opener of their home-and-home series on Monday.

The visiting Calgary Stampeders earned a 38-33 win Friday against the Edmonton Eskimos, avenging their loss in the opener of their home-and-home series on Monday.

Local politicians are leading a public rally and march through Calgary's inner city Friday evening, calling for safer downtown communities.

Edmonton hospitals are serving a new style of food for patients who have problems chewing or swallowing solid food. The food is pureed, then reshaped into its original form.

A man died Friday when his bicycle was involved in a collision in west Edmonton, marking the fourth traffic-related death in the city in the past week.

A shooting that injured a man and was not reported until hours afterward is not gang-related, said Calgary police.

Organizers who want to make an Alberta race the greenest in Canada are telling runners they may have to bring their garbage home with them.

A month after a breakdown at Petro-Canada's Edmonton refinery caused shortages at about 90 retail and independent outlets in western Canada, half the stations were still dry Friday, even though operations at the facility resumed last week.

A controversial sculpture rejected by the City of Vancouver has a new home in a Calgary inner-city community that's being transformed from an industrial site into a mixed-use neighbourhood.

A junior high school teacher in Spruce Grove, west of Edmonton, is facing sex charges, RCMP said Friday.

Two youths are in hospital after an ATV rollover Thursday evening just outside Grand Cache, 435 kilometres northwest of Edmonton.

A month after a breakdown at Petro-Canada's Edmonton refinery caused shortages at about 90 retail and independent outlets in western Canada, half the stations were still dry Friday, even though operations at the facility resumed last week.

A 15-year-old field hockey player and gifted student is making history as the youngest athlete ever at the University of Calgary.

After years of government cuts, Alberta's film industry is getting a one-time shot of $14 million from the province.

After years of government cuts, Alberta's film industry is getting a one-time shot of $14 million from the province.

A woman has died and a man taken to hospital with a life-threatening injury after a house fire in Airdrie, just north of Calgary.

Animal rights groups want tighter standards for Alberta zoos in light of a new program at West Edmonton Mall that allows people to pay $150 to swim with sea lions in the mall's aquarium.

The Calgary International Film Festival will open with a showing of Canadian co-production Blindness and close with the Canadian premiere of Bart Got a Room, the new comedy from Brian Hecker.

Canadians are most likely to vote for the Conservatives in a federal election, and believe Stephen Harper and Jack Layton would make better prime ministers than Stéphane Dion, according to a new poll sponsored by CBC News.