EDMONTON - With injury problems up front, the Edmonton Oilers called up two farmhands Liam Reddox and Ryan Potulny today to kick off a five-game road trip.

Canada's newest national lottery game finally has a grand-prize winner. One ticket purchased in the Prairies had the numbers 2, 7, 8, 11, 16, 17 and 18 for the estimated $50-million win in Friday's Lotto Max draw.

Imagine you're a delegate to the Alberta Conservatives' annual general meeting this weekend in Red Deer.

The statistic leaps off the page quicker than Arkee Whitlock can make a cut. The B.C. Lions run defence

VANCOUVER - The Edmonton Eskimos will remain in the West after all as they secured their first post-season berth within their own division since 2005.

RED DEER - Premier Ed Stelmach pushed for party unity and confidence on the eve of his leadership review. "Your support, the support of our (Progressive Conservative) family, always energizes me," Stelmach said.

A lawyer for former Oilers owner Peter Pocklington says he plans to produce documents that may resolve the fraud charges against his client without having to go to trial.

Quite a few Edmontonians, if you are Peter Pocklington.

EDMONTON - The Alberta government is continuing its efforts to recoup a 21-year-old loan to Peter Pocklington it says now totals almost $13 million and is accumulating $884 per day in interest, according to recently filed court documents.

LEDUC - Alberta high school students are not powerless to stop the fate of their peers who are kidnapped in war-torn countries and forced into lives as soldiers and sex slaves, said Lt.-Gen. Romeo Dallaire Friday.

RED DEER - A Red Deer man has pleaded guilty to six charges in relations to the kidnapping and sexual assault of an Alberta teenager earlier this year.

RED DEER - A teen abducted and repeatedly raped by a man dressed as a Mountie says she stayed alive by persuading her captor to free her because she was "too innocent."

RED DEER, Alta. - An Alberta man who posed as an RCMP officer to kidnap and rape a teenager should be sentenced to life in prison, say Crown prosecutors.

EDMONTON - Some parents and caregivers of infants and some children who are chronically ill are the next Albertans eligible to receive the H1N1 flu vaccine, Alberta Health Services announced Friday.

Alberta Health Services is expanding H1N1 immunization clinics to include two new categories of high risk individuals.

CALGARY - Alberta Health announced two more H1N1-related fatalities in the province on Friday, one day after linking four other deaths with the new flu strain.

CALGARY- A second person has been fired after an incident which saw the Calgary Flames and their families receive H1N1 vaccinations before much of the general public, including high risk groups.

EDMONTON - A second person has been fired by Alberta Health Services for involvement in giving the Calgary Flames and their families the H1N1 vaccine last week.

EDMONTON - A man sought in the death of Edmonton woman Sara Sanders last month was arrested in Saskatchewan on Thursday.

EDMONTON - The annual holiday Checkstop campaign is off to a good start. Of the 125 vehicles checked during Thursday night's launch, police found no impaired drivers.