The health and environmental benefits of protecting a region from light pollution are already well established, and one only has to look at the stream of visitors to the Jasper Dark Sky Festival or the Alberta’s newest dark sky preserve in Lakeland Provincial Park to get a sense of how “astrotourism” can boost rural economies.

Valeri Nichushkin scored twice, Nathan MacKinnon added two assists to break the franchise’s single-season points mark and the Colorado Avalanche cruised into the playoffs behind a 5-1 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night.

More money will land in the pockets of some Canadian families on Friday for the latest Canada Child Benefit installment.

An Edmonton man is feeling let down after Tim Hortons mistakenly told him he’d won a boat.

Cool air has settled in over the province and it’ll be here for a few more days.