The event is scheduled from Jan. 7 to 16 this year and will involve 606 teams from the U9 to U18 division, amounting to more than 9,000 players as well as 2,000 referees.

An Edson man was killed in a crash with a semi near Niton Junction on Wednesday.

A contract worker was killed north of Fort McMurray Thursday morning when two large trucks collided at an oilsands mine.

The hospital patient count includes 64 persons in intensive care units, an increase of five from seven days prior.

Edmonton police are looking for help from the public in locating a missing 45-year-old man.