Alberta News

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Connor McDavid had a goal and four assists, and the Edmonton Oilers extended their win streak to six games with a 5-2 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday night.

EDMONTON — Connor McDavid didn’t just hit 900 points in his career on Tuesday, he looked well on his way to 1,000.

MEDICINE HAT, Alta. — Oasiz Wiesblatt's second power-play goal of the night, scored at 4:53 of overtime, gave the Medicine Hat Tigers an exciting 4-3 Western Hockey League victory over the visiting Red Deer Rebels on Tuesday night at Co-op Place.

EDMONTON — Dennis Edney, a lawyer who played a critical role in the release of former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr, has died at 77. An obituary published in the Edmonton Journal said Edney had dementia and died Saturday.

CALGARY — The Calgary Real Estate Board says the city saw 1,366 home sales in December, a 13.

EDMONTON — Two people in Edmonton were seriously hurt on New Year's Eve in separate stabbings that investigators say were random. Police say a 63-year-old man who was walking north of the downtown core at around 9:15 p.m.

EDMONTON — A passenger who fell out the back door of an Edmonton Transit bus last week has died. City police announced the news in a short statement Monday.

As one province pauses the gas tax to provide savings at the pumps, another is bringing it back. The Manitoba government says that starting Monday, motorists won't have to pay 14 cents per litre in fuel tax for the next six months.

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Mikael Backlund, Dennis Gilbert, Nazem Kadri and Blake Coleman scored and the Calgary Flames outlasted the Philadelphia Flyers 4-3 on Sunday night. Jacob Markstrom made 27 saves to help the Flames improve to 15-16-5.

CALGARY — With two of the Calgary Flames' three highest-paid forwards mired in prolonged slumps, coach Ryan Huska flip-flopped their lines on Sunday and the shuffle paid off.