Okotoks

Pat King, one of the organizers of the 2022 convoy protest in Ottawa, is set to be sentenced in an Ottawa courtroom today.

Superior Court Justice Charles Hackland found King guilty on five counts in November, including mischief and disobeying a court order.

King was found not guilty on three counts of intimidation and one count of obstructing police.

The Crown is seeking a sentence of 10 years for King — the maximum penalty. 

Delays at Toronto's Pearson airport may continue today as investigators work to determine what caused Monday's fiery crash landing of a Delta Air Lines plane with 80 people on board. 

Investigators with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada said Tuesday they've recovered the plane's black box and sent it off for analysis, but it's too soon to say what led to the crash.

Airport authorities said the wreckage of the aircraft was expected to remain on the runway for about 48 hours until the investigators finish their work. 

Cattle producers are seeing a strong 2025 in what could be a good year to see prices rise and cattle herds repopulate following years of harsh conditions.

That was the focus of a recent look that Farm Credit Canada took for the cattle industry in Canada and what it has to contend with in 2025.

Leigh Anderson, a senior economist with the FCC, talks about his optimism for the industry for the year.

It looks like warmer weather is finally returning to the Foothills.

Daytime highs in the positive degrees are on the way after a stretch of extreme cold.

"We've been locked in a very cold pattern for, really, the majority of February across, not only Alberta, but most of the prairies," explains Environment & Climate Change Canada Scientist, Christy Climenhaga. "Temperatures a good 15, sometimes 20, degrees below what's considered normal for this time of year."

Climenhaga says an Arctic ridge had brought in the cold weather and kept it overhead.

The Okotoks Recreation Centre's new Youth Centre is officially open.

A grand opening ceremony was held on Friday, Feb. 14, featuring representatives from the Town of Okotoks, the Optimist Club of Okotoks, and local parents and youth.

The rec centre has had a youth centre for quite some time now, but it was located in the building's basement, away from a lot of the other activity happening in the facility.

High River's Royal Canadian Legion is working to replace the current cenotaph in front of the Highwood Centre.

Working in partnership they have applied for a $25,000 grant from the Veterans Affairs Community War Memorial initiative.

However, even if they get the grant, they'll have to do a lot more fundraising as it's estimated to cost over $60,000.

Legion #71 past president Bob Collins said the Highwood Centre's Tim Whitford will be overseeing the project.

Rowan House Society is almost ready for their first radiothon next month.

Executive Director Linette Soldan knows how much their women's shelter is needed in the Foothills.

"And so, March 6th from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. will be our lovely radiothon with Charlie Brown and many of the wonderful people at Sun Country."

There will be various ways of donating to help the much-needed non-profit organization.

Soldan is thrilled some local businesses have already stepped up as sponsors.

Parts of Southern Alberta are under another extreme cold warning, thanks to the wind chill.

Foothills County near Blackie and all of Vulcan County are under an extreme cold warning, which was issued by Environment Canada early this morning (Tuesday, Feb. 18)

Currently, the wind chill will bring the temperature down between minus 40 and minus 45 degrees, but the wind chill values are expected to become a bit more moderate throughout the day however the extreme cold is expected to return tonight.

Canada's annual inflation rate ticked back up in January to 1.9 per cent, Statistics Canada reported on Tuesday. 

Prices got a full month-long effect of the federal government’s tax break but a spike in gas prices to start the year offset the government’s relief, with underlying inflation accelerating.

The agency reported prices at the pump jumped 8.6 per cent year-over-year, in large part because of a 25.9 per cent spike in Manitoba, with the province reintroducing its provincial gas tax after a temporary suspension through 2024.

An asteroid has been spotted recently, and there is a chance it could hit Earth within a decade.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 was first detected back in December by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), which is an asteroid impact early warning system which was developed by the University of Hawaii and funded by NASA. 

According to Associate Professor with the Faculty of Science at the University of Calgary, Alan Hildebrand, there is some uncertainty with the asteroid's orbit.