What's happening in Edmonton and the capital region — summarized daily, every story credited to the outlet that reported it.
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Edmonton erupted for five goals in the second period in Anaheim, with defenseman Evan Bouchard setting a modern NHL mark for blueliners.
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The federal defence minister appeared alongside Premier Danielle Smith at CFB Edmonton days before Albertans vote on a 10-question referendum on Confederation.
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Three years after the Hamas attack on Israel ignited the war in Gaza, an Edmonton woman says bureaucratic delays have kept her husband trapped there despite an active Canadian visa application.
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The case stems from a 2024 public safety alert after an armed robbery and kidnapping near Mayerthorpe.
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The Edmonton defenceman opened the season with a hat trick and two assists before adding three more points against Vancouver.
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Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin will play his final regular season in 2026-27, with nine games scheduled in Canada including stops in Edmonton and Calgary.
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Vancouver's rebuilding roster has split its opening four-game stretch against Pacific Division heavyweights, with goaltender Kevin Lankinen pointing to a new system taking shape.
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Alberta's NHL, AHL and WHL clubs had a mixed night on Oct. 3, with Edmonton picking up a win while Calgary's NHL team fell to Vancouver.
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Edmonton improved to 2-0-1 to start the season, extending its dominance over Seattle with a seventh straight home win in the series.
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The 1952-era CBC franchise loses its NHL games as Rogers launches a rebranded Saturday broadcast, with Seattle at Edmonton among the opening-night matchups.
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Edmonton split its opening two games against Vancouver, outscoring the Canucks but surrendering 13 goals in the process. Coach Mike Babcock says the defensive breakdowns fall on his staff, not the players.
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Edmonton and Vancouver combined for 16 goals across their season-opening home-and-home series, with the Oilers taking three of four possible points.
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Edmonton improved to 1-0-1 on the young season with a high-scoring road win in Vancouver, the second straight shootout-style affair between the two teams.
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RCMP's federal policing division made the arrest following an investigation into posts on social media platform X, marking the second such case in two months.
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The veteran centre will sit out a second straight game Thursday against Vancouver as Edmonton deals with a rash of forward and defence injuries.
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Events across the country, including in Calgary, mark the Sept. 30 day honouring residential school survivors, with Prime Minister Mark Carney attending an Edmonton ceremony.
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Evan Bouchard scored three goals and added two assists in a losing effort at Rogers Place, where Prime Minister Mark Carney was among the crowd for Edmonton's home opener.
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Vincent Blanchard's record-setting kicking performance headlined a trio of CFL weekly award winners announced Tuesday, alongside quarterbacks Nathan Rourke and Vernon Adams Jr.
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The Edmonton Oilers will be without their second-line centre as they open the season at home against Vancouver.
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With the province's separation referendum three weeks away, the federal Conservative leader used a fundraiser and keynote address to press his case for Alberta remaining in Canada.
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A high-speed chase that began with an Edmonton Police dangerous driving complaint ended hours later when RCMP tracked down a fleeing SUV in Whitecourt.
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The Edmonton Oilers begin a new chapter this season with Mike Babcock behind the bench as the NHL's opening night gets underway across the league.
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A Change.org petition opposing the Oilers' signing of Alex Formenton has topped 70,000 signatures as training camp winds down under new head coach Mike Babcock.
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Edmonton beat Hamilton in a double-overtime two-point shootout, eliminating the Tiger-Cats from playoff contention and extending the Elks' West Division lead.
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Former Oiler Stuart Skinner is now expected to be Winnipeg's starting goaltender after Connor Hellebuyck requested a trade and was suspended for skipping training camp.
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Alberta clubs had a mixed Friday across junior hockey and soccer, with Calgary's WHL and CPL sides both posting big wins while Red Deer edged Lethbridge in a tight WHL contest.
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Edmonton hosts Hamilton at Commonwealth Stadium Saturday as the CFL club looks to lock up a home playoff date after clinching its first postseason spot in seven years.
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Vancouver enters the year under new head coach Manny Malhotra and a revamped front office after finishing last in the NHL last season.
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Dr. Allan S. Lycka, once wrongly given six months to live, is asking Canadians to complete one million small acts of support for others facing hardship.
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The Oilers' 2011 first-overall pick is spending training camp centring a line with Zach Hyman and Isaac Howard as new head coach Mike Babcock decides how to deploy his most versatile forward.
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Alberta's two NHL clubs are both in pre-season action Tuesday night, with Edmonton on the road and Calgary hosting Vancouver.
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Alberta's largest annual municipal gathering runs three days at the Edmonton Convention Centre, with sessions on infrastructure, housing and fiscal sustainability.
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Edmonton's off-season shakeup headlines a wave of NHL roster moves detailed in a Canadian Press round-up ahead of the 2026-27 season.
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A protest was held outside Rogers Arena as the Oilers opened their pre-season, tied to backlash over the club's signing of Alex Formenton.
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Toronto clinched a playoff berth and a home post-season game while Edmonton, still atop the CFL West at 10-4, lost a late chance to extend its win streak.
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Edmonton has seven goaltenders in camp as Tristan Jarry looks to rebound from a rocky 2025-26 campaign that followed a December trade from Pittsburgh.
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The Alouettes' Hall of Fame Game victory in Hamilton has set up a Saturday matchup where the Toronto Argonauts can clinch a playoff spot against the Edmonton Elks.
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The 19-year-old forward is living out of a Vancouver hotel while he waits to learn where he'll play this season, as the rebuilding Canucks lean on a wave of young prospects.
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Millington, drafted first overall by Edmonton in 1990, was formally inducted Thursday night alongside four other players and a builder.
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Mike Babcock's first day back behind an NHL bench since leaving Columbus in 2023 stressed speed and detail, players said.
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Statistics Canada's August figures show Alberta's two largest cities cooling slightly from July while the national rate held at 3.0 per cent.
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Arop, a three-time world medallist and Olympic silver medallist, ran 1:42.28 in Budapest as Algeria's Djamel Sedjati took the win.
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Edmonton improved to 10-3 with its fourth straight win, ending a five-year post-season drought that was the franchise's worst since the 1960s.
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The World Athletics Ultimate Championship saw three Canadian stars eliminated Friday, with medals replaced by a US$10-million prize pool for event winners.
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Saddle Lake Cree Nation says it will provide gender-affirming care on its own land as a treaty right, citing the Treaty 6 medicine chest clause signed 150 years ago.
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The Canadian Press wire roundup lists Friday's MLB results alongside Saturday's full slate of CFL, MLB, MLS and soccer games across North America.
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The Saskatoon native announced his retirement on Instagram after a career that included a stint as Edmonton's starting goaltender in 2025-26.
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Edmonton hosts Calgary on Saturday needing a win to complete a Labour Day series sweep and improve to 10-3, locking up a CFL West playoff spot.
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The two-time CFL outstanding defensive player agreed to a one-year extension, avoiding free agency ahead of the new season.
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The petition, started by longtime fan Mary Loewen, does not dispute Alex Formenton's 2025 acquittal but says the Oilers should not have signed him regardless.
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The overhaul replaces geography-based divisions with ones built around specific combat and support roles, marking one of the biggest structural changes to Canada's Army in decades.
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Arop, an Olympic silver medallist, heads into this weekend's World Athletics Ultimate Championship targeting a sub-1:41 finish as he battles Achilles issues that lingered into this season.
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Mary Loewen, known for dressing as a sequined Stanley Cup at games, says she will no longer support the Oilers after the team signed Alex Formenton, one of five former world junior players once accused of sexual assault.
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Former Oilers netminder Stuart Skinner says he's staying focused on his own game as Winnipeg sorts out the future of longtime starter Connor Hellebuyck.
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Evan Solomon responded to a departing Anthropic researcher's warning about AI risks while announcing a new AI literacy initiative in Edmonton.
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A confrontation over property damage in Woodland County escalated when a man fired a gun into the air and then aimed it at the person who caught him in the act.
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The rebrand ends a 12-year sublicensing deal that had put NHL games on CBC, though CBC keeps the 'Hockey Night in Canada' name.
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The forward was acquitted last year of sexual assault charges tied to a 2018 Hockey Canada gala in London, Ont., and was cleared for immediate reinstatement after an appeal board ruling.
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Coughlan spent 27 years with the Edmonton Police Service before moving into a provincial law enforcement oversight role.
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Food Allergy Canada is pushing other provinces to adopt Alberta-style legislation after a six-year-old with no known allergies went into anaphylaxis at recess and was saved by school-stocked epinephrine.
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Places that took out a licence in September 2026 — restaurants, shops, salons and the like, rather than the contractors and warehouses that make up the rest of the list.
Shop · Prince Rupert, Edmonton
Personal care · Grovenor, Edmonton
Food · Inglewood, Edmonton
Fitness · Garneau, Edmonton
A licence is permission to open, not proof that it has. Some of these will not have opened yet, and a few never will.
Headlines from local newsrooms that publish a short preview rather than the full story. We don't summarize these — the link goes straight to their reporting.
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Read at Rocky Mountain Outlook ↗EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the fact the provincial election authority is helping voters correct errors in about 3,000 mail-in ballot packages shows the system is working.
Read at Rocky Mountain Outlook ↗REGINA — The premiers of Alberta and Saskatchewan are shutting down a suggestion from U.S. tech titan Elon Musk that the two provinces should split from Canada. Musk, the trillionaire tech businessman and former adviser to U.S.
Read at Rocky Mountain Outlook ↗EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith on Wednesday brushed off a court battle launched by the Opposition NDP over her government's changes to voter list rules.
Read at Rocky Mountain Outlook ↗Strathcona County RCMP are warning residents to stay vigilant following reports of a sophisticated scam involving wallet thefts and fraudulent phone calls.
Read at Rocky Mountain Outlook ↗EDMONTON — Leading figures in the push for Alberta separation are celebrating the election of Quebec premier-designate Paul St-Pierre Plamondon.
Read at Rocky Mountain Outlook ↗EDMONTON — Federal Defence Minister David McGuinty is reminding Albertans of billions of dollars in military spending and that a strong Canada includes a strong Alberta. His comments come as Albertans prepare to vote on Confederation in the Oct.
Read at Rocky Mountain Outlook ↗Audie Benson put messages on church sign for 35 years
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