Lacombe

With sunny weather in the forecast this weekend, it's a good time to remind residents to check for fire bans, advisories and restrictions in their area.

With information from Alberta Fire Bans website the following places are currently under bans and advisories.

The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) has released its third Farmers and Food Price Report.

The report shows that while food prices remain high, the share of the food dollar reaching Saskatchewan farmers continues to decline.

One of the contributors to wind is the Coriolis force. The Coriolis force arises from the fact that the Earth rotates. | Photo: File
Last issue, we talked about how the pressure gradient force is the main driving force of wind in our atmosphere and that it exists due to the unequal heating of the Earth’s surface.

Now, if we were to take a simple look at the Earth, this would mean that the polar regions would have high pressure because they are cold and the equatorial regions would be areas of low pressure because they are warm.

India takes the plunge, but some crop sectors remain hesitant.

May 4, 2025, could be a significant day in the history of agriculture.

On that day, Indian agriculture minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced the release of two gene-edited rice varieties.

The announcement signals to the world that India — a country of nearly 1.5 billion people — is committed to gene edited technologies and modern tools to improve crop production.

A multicultural festival celebrating diversity and community is returning to Wetaskiwin this June, with more than 3,000 people expected to attend. 

The Multicultural Heritage Festival will take place at Jubilee Park from June 13 to 15, running daily from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. 

Seniors Week is getting started on Monday in Lacombe with a full list of activities for 55+ adults to take part in.

The events mark a week dedicated to honouring and celebrating the contributions of older adults in the community. 

Seniors’ Week has been recognized since 1986 and was inspired by the vision of the late Alice Modin.

With a heat warning and hot weather forecast for this weekend, Red Deer Residents can look forward to cooling off in Red Deer’s outdoor water amenities starting this weekend.

All outdoor water amenities are weather dependent, and are set to open June 1, 2025:

A Red Deer woman who Crown prosecutors say was wrongfully released from an Edmonton area jail with allegedly fake release papers has been arrested in B.C.

Red Deer RCMP were advised by the Alberta Justice Center that a remanded prisoner, 24-year-old Mackenzie Dawn Hardy, had been inadvertently released due to fraud on April 25.

A new spy watchdog report says an overseas Canadian Security Intelligence Service operation was suddenly halted by government officials, "creating unnecessary danger for the CSIS team" and raising questions about ministerial accountability.

The National Security and Intelligence Review Agency found no written records indicating the decision to suspend the operation had been made by the CSIS director or the minister of public safety.

National defence is becoming an increasingly thorny topic for Prime Minister Mark Carney's government as Canada comes under heavy pressure from its allies to do more and spend more.

But with just weeks to go until NATO member nations assemble in the Netherlands for a summit that could put Ottawa in the hot seat on defence spending, several of his ministers took the unusual step of removing themselves from discussions with defence reporters this week at Canada's largest defence industry show.