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 force the workers back to their posts.
The dispute (...)
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 diabetes drug that never made it to market, (...)
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 laboratory models fed DHA did not accumulate a toxic (...)
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 Dubnyk's heroics the home team forced a shootout where (...)
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 the past few days had died down by at least half, (...)
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 have been removed are often warned changes in (...)
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 Nikolai Khabibulin.
Ilya Kovalchuk scored a (...)
Two goals from Jiri Hudler and 30 saves by Chris Osgood set up the Detroit Red Wings 4-3 win over the Edmonton Oilers in Thursday's NHL action.
Defending champion Detroit is 6-0-1 in its past seven games, and Thursday's result maintained its six-point advantage atop the Western Conference's (...)
Dustin Penner scored with 5.4 seconds remaining to give the Edmonton Oilers a 3-2 victory over the Colorado Avalanche in their season-opener on Sunday.
Penner redirected an Ethan Moreau shot past Avs goalie Peter Budaj to clinch his second goal of the game and get the Oilers' 30th NHL season off (...)
Sam Gagner scored twice and the Edmonton Oilers edged closer to Colorado in the race for the final playoff spot in the NHL's Western Conference with a 7-5 victory over the Avalanche on Saturday.
Dustin Penner, Fernando Pisani, Kyle Brodziak, Marty Reasoner and Marc Pouliot also scored for the (...)
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 down to 10th, stormed from his Dallara Honda car (...)
Here's something for “Gossip Girl” to talk about.
Actress and singer Hilary Duff, who had a recurring guest role on the popular CW series last season, is engaged to Edmonton Oilers forward Mike Comrie.
Publicist Nanci Ryder says the two were engaged last weekend while vacationing in Hawaii.
She (...)
The Edmonton Oilers beat the Calgary Flames 5-1 on Friday to deliver the No. 4 seed in the NHL's Western Conference playoffs to Chicago.
Shawn Horcoff and Sheldon Souray each had a goal and two assists for the Oilers, eliminated from playoff contention on Tuesday. The Flames are two points behind (...)
Mathieu Garon made 23 saves to help the Edmonton Oilers beat Dallas 5-2 on Wednesday in the Stars' second NHL game without suspended agitator Sean Avery.
Shawn Horcoff, Lubomir Visnovsky, Marc-Antoine Pouliot, Ales Hemsky and Andrew Cogliano scored for Edmonton. Mike Modano scored twice in third (...)
Australia's Ryan Briscoe captured pole position Friday for the Edmonton IndyCar Series race, edging Penske teammate Helio Castroneves of Brazil.
Briscoe turned a fast lap of 1 minute, 0.7311 seconds in the Fast Six Shootout qualifying climax, clocking in at 116.955 miles per hour on the 1.973-mile (...)