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It's been a busy week out in the field as farmers continue to work on getting this year's crop in the ground.

Manitoba's weekly crop report shows the provincial crop is now 32 per cent seeded.

Oilseed Specialist Sonia Wilson puts together the weekly crop report, updating seeding progress around the province. 

Rocky Mountain House residents Candice MacDonald and Hughie MacKay won $707,422.70 on the April 3 LIGHTNING LOTTO draw.

“I look at the win tracker all the time,” MacKay said. “If the jackpot is big, I buy (a ticket) on the way to work and one on the way home.” 

On this particular occasion, he saw the instant-win jackpot was sitting at just over $700,000. 

“I texted my partner and told her I was going to win the jackpot on the way home,” he chuckled. 

4703 44 Street in Sylvan Lake will be closed today and tomorrow from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. due to sewer line repair.

Please watch out for signage and road crews. 

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École Olds High School student, Rayna Scott, has received an honourable mention after being nominated for an Honouring Spirit Indigenous Award earlier this year.

The nomination came from educators at ÉOHS and was submitted to the Alberta School Boards Association.

“When I found out I felt happy and honoured. I could not stop smiling,” says Rayna Scott. Scott says when she learned that her biological father is Métis, it increased her sense of pride in herself.

Parts of Alberta's personal information protection legislation have been ruled unconstitutional.

But the ruling from Court of King's Bench Justice Colin Feasby also upheld an order to stop an American facial recognition company from collecting images of Albertans.

Clearview AI scrapes the internet and social media for images of people and adds them to a database, which it markets to law enforcement agencies as a facial recognition tool.

Livestock producers are being reminded to stay vigilant after lab results confirmed anthrax as the cause of death in two cattle on a farm in the Rural Municipality (RM) of Paynton No. 470. The confirmation came late Tuesday.

Workers at Canada Post could be heading back to the picket lines in a matter of days — but a labour expert warns postal workers might find negotiating conditions far less favourable now than they were during their holiday job action.

Canada Post said late Tuesday it was hitting pause on negotiations with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers after days of talks between the parties bore little fruit.

Opposition parties attacked Prime Minister Mark Carney Wednesday for being vague about his plans after his government said it would not table a federal budget before the House of Commons rises for the summer.

Following the first Liberal cabinet meeting after the swearing-in ceremony on Tuesday, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said instead of a spring budget, the government will put forward an economic statement in the fall.

For cow-calf operations, a major driver of profitability is reproductive efficiency, or the number of calves weaned per cow exposed. There are a lot of factors influencing this outcome, from breeding time through weaning. However, some considerations can be looked at well before the breeding season begins.

After calving, cows will have about 30 to 100 days to recover, resume cycling and be re-bred to calve around the same time the following year. This period through calving and early lactation is when a cow’s requirements for energy and protein are the highest.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is releasing an update with April stats on federally reportable diseases.

As of April 30th, there have been 17 cases of avian influenza, with three in British Columbia, one in Alberta, three in Saskatchewan, and two in Manitoba.