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CALGARY — Italian speedskater Davide Ghiotto has set a world record in the men's 10,000 metres in Calgary's Olympic Oval. Ghiotto crossed the line in 12 minutes, 25.69 seconds to better the previous record of 12:30.

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — Leo Braillard scored three times to lead the Lethbridge Hurricanes to a 4-1 win over the Red Deer Rebels in Western Hockey League play Friday night. Logan Wormald had the other goal for Lethbridge while adding two assists.

CALGARY — American speedskater star Jordan Stolz continued his World Cup dominance while Canada's Isabelle Weidemann searched for an extra gear in a race she gets few chances to execute in a season.

OTTAWA — Ottawa's former chief trade negotiator Steve Verheul says Alberta is undermining Canada's attempts to prevent the U.S. from levying damaging tariffs — a measure U.S.

JASPER, ALTA. — An Albertan who lost her home in the devastating Jasper wildfire last year says broken promises by the United Conservative Party government in setting up interim housing for those displaced are unacceptable.

Saskatchewan’s top Mountie says a countrywide RCMP internal memo asking front-line officers to come and fill shifts in her province and in Manitoba is unusual but necessary.

LAC LA BICHE, Alta. — A head-on crash on a highway in northern Alberta has left three people dead. Mounties in Lac La Biche say they were alerted on Thursday to a crash involving a sport utility vehicle and a pickup truck pulling a travel trailer.

VEGREVILLE, Alta. — Mounties say a child is in hospital after a school bus flipped on a highway east of Edmonton. Officers were dispatched to the crash on Highway 16 near Vegreville after the lunch hour. Two students and a driver were on board.

CALGARY — The trial for a man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting seven women east of Calgary is to continue in May as he was again found fit to stand trial by an Alberta judge.

EDMONTON — A strike by thousands of school support workers in Alberta is poised to get bigger as unions for two more divisions reach an impasse.