Pope Francis has issued an historic apology for the Catholic Church's cooperation with Canada's "catastrophic" policy of Indigenous residential schools, saying the forced assimilation of Native peoples into Christian society destroyed their (...)
Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg joined thousands of protesters marching in Canada's energy heartland Alberta on Friday, as a smaller counter-rally led by a truck convoy of oil and gas workers also converged on the provincial capital (...)
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins posted a first-period hat trick, and Leon Draisaitl collected three goals in a four-point night as the host Edmonton Oilers scored five times in the opening frame en route to an 8-4 victory over the Los Angeles Kings (...)
Jakob Silfverberg scored 45 seconds into overtime, lifting the Anaheim Ducks to a 4-3 victory over the Edmonton Oilers in Game 4 of their second-round playoff series Wednesday night.
Captain Ryan Getzlaf set up the winning score and finished with (...)
Jakob Silfverberg scored twice to lead the Anaheim Ducks to a 6-3 victory over Edmonton on Sunday night, cutting the Oilers' series lead to 2-1.
Ryan Getzlaf had a goal and an assist while Rickard Rakell, Chris Wagner and Ryan Kesler also scored for (...)
The Edmonton Oilers clinched their first playoff spot in 11 years and dealt the Los Angeles Kings' postseason hopes a near-fatal blow with a 2-1 victory at Rogers Place Tuesday.
Connor McDavid and Eric Gryba scored for the Oilers, who won for the (...)
Phil Kessel scored the shootout winner in the Pittsburgh Penguins› 3-2 NHL victory over the Edmonton Oilers Friday night.
Marc-Andre Fleury made 40 saves, Nick Bonino and Evgeni Malkin scored in regulation for Pittsburgh, while Sidney Crosby had a (...)
Connor McDavid isn't the only youngster on the Edmonton Oilers making an impact right now.
Leon Draisaitl scored his 10th goal of the season 3:16 into overtime and Edmonton came away with a 3-2 victory over the visiting Anaheim Ducks Saturday (...)
Wayne Gretzky stood at center ice in the building he made famous Wednesday night and saluted the fans.
"I wish we could be out there and play for them again but we can't do it anymore," Gretzky said to cheers from thousands of supporters — most clad (...)
Mike Smith didn't look like a guy that has missed half a season.
Smith made 44 saves in his return from a 40-game injury absence and Antoine Vermette had two goals and an assist to help the Arizona Coyotes beat the Edmonton Oilers 4-0 Saturday (...)
James Reimer made 31 saves in his first shutout of the season, Logan Couture scored twice and the San Jose Sharks beat the Edmonton Oilers 3-0 Tuesday night.
Joe Pavelski also scored for the Sharks, who won their second in a row. They've now won (...)
Mike Yeo is gone and so is much of the weight off the Minnesota Wild players.
Matt Dumba, Thomas Vanek and Mikael Granlund each had a goal and an assist and Minnesota beat the Edmonton Oilers 5-2 Thursday night to win its third straight under (...)
Taylor Hall scored with 1:01 left in overtime to lift the Edmonton Oilers over the San Jose Sharks 4-3 Wednesday night for their fourth straight victory.
Leon Draisaitl, Jordan Eberle and Iiro Pakarinen also scored for the Oilers.
The Sharks lost (...)
The Pittsburgh Penguins' slow start to the NHL season is a distant memory at this point.
Phil Kessel's fifth goal of the season broke a tie midway through the third period and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Edmonton Oilers 2-1 Friday night for (...)
The Los Angeles Kings have officially put a tough start to the season behind them.
Tanner Pearson broke a tie late in the third period with his first goal since breaking his leg last season and the Los Angeles Kings beat the Edmonton Oilers 3-2 (...)
A man with a lengthy criminal record killed six adults and two young children before taking his own life in Edmonton, Alberta, in what the police chief on Tuesday called the city's worst mass murder, AP reported.
Edmonton Police Chief Rod Knecht (...)
Employees at seven prisons Canada's Alberta province are on strike to protest the suspension of one of their colleagues, AP reported.
Alberta Justice Minister Jonathan Denis calls the strike illegal. The province is seeking a court injunction to (...)
A drug originally meant to treat diabetes may restore memory in brain cells affected by Alzheimer's disease, UPI cited researchers in Canada as suggesting.
Study leader Jack Jhamandas of the University of Alberta and his team demonstrated last year (...)
=A drug originally meant to treat diabetes may restore memory in brain cells affected by Alzheimer's disease, UPI cited researchers in Canada as suggesting.
Study leader Jack Jhamandas of the University of Alberta and his team demonstrated last year (...)
An omega-3 fatty acid found in fish -- DHA -- prevented age-related vision loss in laboratory tests, UPI quoted researchers in Canada as finding.
Yves Sauve and his team at University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry discovered (...)
Devan Dubnyk made 44 saves, capped by the game-ending stop, as the last-placed Edmonton Oilers produced an unlikely 2-1 upset of the San Jose Sharks in a shootout Monday.
San Jose dictated the play with a 45-18 advantage in shots, but behind (...)
Zach Parise scored a power-play goal 1:06 into overtime, and the New Jersey Devils beat the Edmonton Oilers 2-1 Wednesday for their third win in four games.
Parise took a feed from Patrik Elias and snapped a shot into a wide-open net behind goalie (...)
The number of wildfires burning across central Alberta rose to 100 Tuesday, with 36 of them considered out of control, UPI quoted fire officials as saying.
However, optimism rose among firefighters as 60 mph winds that had been helping the fires in (...)
A Canadian researcher says breast cancer survivors need not fear air travel because of fear of lymph edema -- swelling in the arm.
Margie McNeely of the University of Alberta in Edmonton says women who've had breast cancer surgery where lymph nodes (...)
New Zealand driver Scott Dixon won a bizarre Honda Edmonton Indy Sunday after rival Helio Castroneves crossed the finish line first, but was penalized for blocking his own teammate, Will Power of Australia.
An enraged Castroneves, who was pushed (...)