Oilers coach calls tonight's game 'an extension of Game 6'

by Min Dhairwal

The Edmonton Oilers and the Anaheim Ducks face off for Game 7 tonight at the Honda Center. Many Oilers have never experienced the pressure of a winner-take-all final match.

Media has Serenity foster home facts wrong, but minister won't correct record

by Michelle Bellefontaine

Children's Services Minister Danielle Larivee says the media is reporting outdated facts about the number and ages of children living with the former foster parents of Serenity, a little girl whose 2014 death shocked people across the province.

U of A scientists to broadcast mission to save glass sea sponges off B.C. coast

Scientists from the University of Alberta have embarked on an expedition off the B.C. coast to help protect glass sea sponge reefs — and they’re live streaming their mission.

Video Royal Alberta Museum ice age exhibit a 'swan song' for longtime exhibit builder

As the Royal Alberta Museum prepares to open a new chapter with its downtown location, Peter Milot is getting ready to start a new chapter in his own life.

Downtown bike lane network set to open in July, city says

by Travis McEwan

Construction of a 7.8-kilometre network of protected bike lanes in downtown Edmonton is expected to be completed in July, the city says.

Connor McAwkward: Fans get two minutes for holding

by Andrea Ross

Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid can be an elusive target on the ice, but he was all tied up by some fans at the Edmonton International Airport on Tuesday.

Edmonton woman uses art to help rescue family members still in Syria

A Syrian refugee, Amena Shebab and her three children arrived in Canada in 2012, but her family remains fractured by the conflict.

Staff placed on leave after nursing students flag alarming problems at Lacombe Hospital

by Gareth Hampshire

Alberta Health Services has placed three staff members on administrative leave after discovering a long list of problems at the Lacombe Hospital and Care centre.

B.C. election won't be a factor in pipeline progress, Alberta ministers insist

by Michelle Bellefontaine, Allison Dempster

Alberta cabinet ministers say the uncertainty caused by the results of the B.C. election won't change anything for the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

Betty Anne Gagnon's sister testifies about suicide plan, drug use

by Janice Johnston

Denise Scriven testified Wednesday she was so distraught in the months before her sister died that she planned to write a suicide note, tuck it into her sister's pocket and send her on a bus to Calgary. She thought by the time someone read the note, she and her husband would both be dead.

Edmonton tackles issue of public urination following hockey games

by Lydia Neufeld

The washrooms at Tix on the Square, in Churchill Square downtown, will be kept open later Wednesday in an effort by the city to deal with public urination following hockey games at Rogers Place.

Man's body found face down on St. Albert road

Police are investigating the discovery of a man's body on the outskirts of St. Albert Wednesday.

Health officials warn of potential TB exposure at 2 Edmonton-area Catholic schools

Health officials in Alberta are warning that some people may have been exposed to a confirmed case of tuberculosis in the Edmonton region.

Fort Saskatchewan man accused of trading booze for sex with underage girls

A Fort Saskatchewan man is facing sexual assault charges after providing alcohol to underage girls in exchange for sexual favours, police say.

NEB proposes to review upstream, downstream emissions from Energy East

Canada's national energy regulator has proposed that the new review of the Energy East Pipeline consider upstream and downstream emissions from the project.

Alberta attempts to tackle its abandoned well problem

by Tracy Johnson

Over the next month, the Alberta government and the Alberta Energy Regulator will work with industry, landowners and others to try to solve the province's abandoned and orphaned wells problem. It's not going to be easy.

Michael Oshry to depart city council after one term

Michael Oshry is Edmonton's third city councillor this year to announce he is not running again.

Resurrecting the City of Champions slogan: the debate returns to city hall

Coun. Tony Caterina is on a mission to resurrect Edmonton’s City of Champions slogan.

Made-in-Edmonton cartoon helps kids prepare to testify in court

by Gareth Hampshire

Alberta court workers are being encouraged to help children prepare for court hearings by showing them a new Edmonton-made cartoon all about the process.

Service Alberta investigating complaints against Edmonton matchmaking company

by Andrea Huncar

Service Alberta is investigating four new complaints against an Edmonton matchmaking company stemming from a CBC Edmonton investigation.

Oh, boy: Oilers' biggest little fan heads to Anaheim for repeat performance

Five-year-old Liam Hirsch earned a place in the hearts of hockey fans from coast to coast on Sunday when his enthusiasm was captured by a television camera in Rogers Place.

One dead in northern Alberta house fire

One person has died in a house fire in the small northern Alberta community of Cadotte Lake.

Betty Anne Gagnon death inquiry hears of caregivers' descent into drugs, depression

by Janice Johnston

On day two of the Betty Anne Gagnon fatality inquiry, the judge heard from Mikaela Murray, the mother of Michael Scriven, who desperately tried to get help for Gagnon when she felt her son and daughter-in-law could no longer care for the developmentally delayed woman.

Oilers ticket holders could lose seats if caught trying to scalp

The OEG claims all 18,000 tickets for Wednesday's watch party at Rogers Place sold out in two minutes.

Edward Snowden tells universities Trump's firing of FBI director is alarming

by Sarah Lawrynuik

The decision by U.S. President Donald Trump to fire FBI director James Comey is alarming and part of a global shift away from the democratic oversight of powerful people, Edward Snowden said Tuesday as he warned Prairie university crowds about privacy issues.

City-sponsored program expands free transit passes to Edmonton's most vulnerable

by Travis McEwan

A program that offers free transit passes to the city's vulnerable has expanded to include adults and increase the amount of monthly passes.

Canadian softwood lumber could find a home in China, says Canadian ambassador

by Alexandra Zabjek

Canada’s new ambassador to China suggested that as this country’s softwood lumber industry faces tumultuous trade times with the United States, it may want to “seize” the opportunity to export more products to China. He spoke in Edmonton on Tuesday.

Video Premier, minister under fire over latest revelations in Serenity case

by MIchelle Bellefontaine

Children's Services Minister Danielle Larivee and Premier Rachel Notley faced scathing questions from the opposition in the legislature Tuesday after the CBC revealed six children still live in the same home where four-year-old Serenity suffered fatal injuries in 2014.

Edmonton council moves ahead with plan for paving back alleys

by Lydia Neufeld

Edmonton city council is moving ahead with a strategy to pave back alleys similar to how it has dealt with roads, sidewalks and curbs on front streets with neighbourhood renewal.

Urinating in public still a problem outside Rogers Place

by Lydia Neufeld

Edmonton hockey fans going to games at Rogers Place downtown are still not getting the message about peeing in public, says Coun. Scott McKeen.

Alberta's electricity future blowin' in the wind

by Nola Keeler

Alberta is just scratching the surface of getting its electricity from wind, delegates to a conference on wind-generated electricity were told in Edmonton Tuesday.

Alberta researchers help crack identity of dinosaur eggs found decades ago

Research into the largest dinosaur egg discovery took decades to hatch and Alberta researchers were in the thick of the findings.

Back to Bitumount: How the oilsands changed Alberta and Canada forever

by Bob Weber

David O'Laney unlocks the gate to the historic site he is charged with protecting and swings it wide, allowing entrance to what is arguably the birthplace of modern Alberta and all that has meant to the rest of Canada.

Robotic falcons to scare away real birds at Edmonton airport

Edmonton International Airport will soon become one of the first airports in the world to use robotic falcons to chase birds from flight paths and discourage nearby nesting.

Bacterial infection confirmed in Alberta open-heart surgery patient

Alberta Health Services said Tuesday an adult patient who underwent open-heart surgery became infected with Mycobacterium chimaera.

Exclusive 'It's shocking': Opposition asks why children are still living in Serenity foster home

by Wallis Snowdon

Evidence that children are still residing the home where an Alberta toddler incurred deadly injuries is proof that the provincial child welfare system is dangerously broken, says the official opposition.

Video Police chief supports increased speed limit on Henday

Edmonton Police Chief Rod Knecht supports raising the speed limit on Anthony Henday Drive to 110 km/h from the current 100 km/h.

Avalanche risk persists in the Rockies as heavy snowpack melts and shifts

by Robson Fletcher

Snow may not be top of mind in Calgary any more, but avalanche risk persists in the mountains and backcountry users should continue to be extra mindful of overhead hazards, parks staff advise.

Analysis These Oilers have the 'belief' they can win the Stanley Cup now

by Tim Wharnsby

In the eyes of Hockey Night in Canada analyst Craig Simpson, there is no question that the Edmonton Oilers believe they can win the Stanley Cup this season, something the club almost did in 2006.

Mom of toddler found dead near Edmonton church attacked on social media

by John Cotter

Members of an Indigenous community in central Alberta are angry that strangers are using social media to attack the mother of a toddler who was found dead near a church last month.

2 of 4 missing hunters from Fort Chipewyan to be laid to rest this week

by Mitch Wiles

Two of the four hunters who went missing near Fort Chipewyan in April, after failing to return from an evening hunting trip on the Rocher River, will be laid to rest this week.

Exclusive 'God only knows': Serenity's mother concerned about children living in former foster home

by Wallis Snowdon

Children are still living in the former foster home where Serenity lived before she died emaciated and battered in an Edmonton hospital bed, CBC News has learned.

Southpark on Whyte sign to return in 2 years with new look, historic designation

by Natasha Riebe

The Southpark on Whyte sign, measuring nearly 70 feet tall, will be refurbished while a real estate developer builds a new retail and residential structure on the old car lot.

Edmonton police chief backs anonymity for murder victims

by Janice Johnston

In mid-January, Edmonton Police began to withhold the names of some homicide victims. Chief Rod Knecht defended the decision and asserted his intention to gain a province-wide consensus on the policy among all Alberta police forces.

Suncor to file for approval of 160,000-bpd Lewis thermal oilsands project

Suncor Energy says it will apply this year for provincial regulatory permission to build a new Alberta oilsands project that could eventually produce up to 160,000 barrels per day.