The Olympic torch made its first appearance in Alberta Friday as it wound its way through the northern part of the province.

Hundreds of protesters have gathered outside the hotel in Red Deer, Alta., where Progressive Conservative delegates are voting on Premier Ed Stelmach's leadership.

The Canadian women's hockey team won the Four Nations Cup tournament with a 5-1 win over the U.S. on Saturday in Finland.

Quarterback Ricky Ray ran for two touchdowns and passed for another Friday, to lead the Edmonton Eskimos to a 45-13 victory over the B.C. Lions and a CFL playoff berth.

The Edmonton man accused of killing an RCMP officer in Hay River, N.W.T., in 2007 plotted to silence a witness afterward, a jury in Yellowknife heard Friday.

Dr. John O'Connor has been cleared of the last of four complaints laid by Health Canada during his tenure as a fly-in doctor in Fort Chipewyan, Alta.

A central Alberta man has been charged in the death of a teen who was killed when a pen-like device used to scare off bears went off in a truck and struck him with a bullet.

Mayor Stephen Mandel has returned to Edmonton with the Prince of Wales Prize for Municipal Heritage Leadership, after a special ceremony with Prince Charles on Wednesday in Toronto.

A second person has been fired for allowing members of the Calgary Flames to receive the swine flu shot while Albertans had to line up for hours at vaccination clinics.

Alberta children under 10 with chronic health conditions and parents of babies will be able to get a swine flu vaccination, starting Tuesday.

A man wanted by Edmonton police in the slaying of a 28-year-old woman was arrested Thursday in northwest Saskatchewan.

Calgary-based Suncor Energy Inc. said Friday it plans to sell up to $4 billion in assets next year.

Tim Ryan, the founder and program director of the theatre arts program at Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton, dies from complications of the H1N1 virus after entering hospital last week with a heart condition.

A neighbour of a slain Edmonton senior commended police Thursday for finally laying charges in her 1987 slaying.

The ailing Edmonton Oilers dug their own hole Thursday night with a parade to the penalty box, giving the New York Rangers the chance they needed to put the brakes on a four-game losing skid on the road.

Members of the Alberta Progressive Conservative party are gathering in Red Deer for a convention this weekend where the main event will be a secret-ballot vote on Premier Ed Stelmach's leadership.

The Alberta government spent $383,000 on private charter planes for Conservative MLAs and cabinet ministers, even though the province has its own fleet of planes, CBC News has learned.

A vehicle rollover south of Hobbema, Alta. has killed one man and sent a woman to hospital with critical injuries, RCMP in Hobbema say.

The Northwest Territories hopes to convince Alberta to sign a transboundary water agreement by 2011, Environment Minister Michael Miltenberger says.

A University of Alberta student whose satirical posters had him facing probation or expulsion learned Wednesday he won't be charged after all.