Okotoks

The Okotoks Dawgs toppled the Fort McMurray in all three games over the weekend.

The Giants did manage one win in their four-game series, and that was on Thursday.

The Dawgs dumped them 16-4 on Sunday, 3-2 on Saturday and 8-1 on Friday.

The Sylvan Lake Gulls and Lethbridge Bulls now trail the Dawgs for first in the WCBL West Division by two and a half games.

Up next for the Dawgs is a two-game home series against the league-leading Saskatoon Berries on Tuesday and Wednesday night at Seaman Stadium.

The Teepee Creek Stampede ran for three days over the weekend, including Friday.

One of Alberta's oldest stampedes brought back chuckwagon races from the WPCA.

With the Calgary Stampede chuckwagon races only having 27 wagons instead of 36 since moving to three wagons per heat, the WPCA held another sanctioned event in the hamlet of Teepee Creek near Grande Prairie, Alberta.

Blackie's Jordie Fike was in the hunt and finished in first on Day 1 but dropped down to 4th in the aggregate after Sunday's heats.

An Alberta Emergency Alert went out for the Hamlet of Granum on Sunday night.

The M.D. of Willow Creek shared the information about a water boil advisory via social media.

Due to a power outage on Sunday night, the advisory was issued at 11:05 p.m.

You're asked to boil all drinking water until further notice.

They shared some follow-up actions for residents to take.

Action to take:

It was a historical day on Sunday at the Calgary Stampede.

Breakaway Roping was introduced this year, giving women their second event to earn $50,000 in.

It didn't disappoint either, as Langdon Alberta's Shelby Boisjoli-Meged won it with a blistering time of 2.2 seconds.

Boisjoli-Meged was the only Canadian top nine finalist in the event.

There were a few more major Alberta moments from Championship Sunday.

In Saddle Bronc, Zeke Thurston from Big Valley, Alberta, won it again, for the fourth time, but his first since 2017.

Calgary's Chanse Vigen, the 'Rangleland Rockstar', finally won the Calgary Stampede.

We're getting a lot of rain today.

Environment Canada issued a Rainfall Warning on Monday morning at 5:35, forecasting upwards of 50 to 80 mm of rain.

This covers all of Foothills County and Vulcan County.

You can expect between 30 and 40 mm of rainfall today, followed by an additional 15 to 25 mm tonight.

It will also be much cooler today than the temperatures we had over the weekend, with a steady temperature of 13 degrees today.

Alberta's premier says "pornography is a problem for young adults" in remarks defending her government's move to remove sexually explicit content from school library shelves this fall.

Danielle Smith was responding to criticism received via text on her provincewide phone-in radio program on Saturday that a lack of education funding and overcrowded classrooms were more important issues than library content.

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says the economy is becoming the primary focus of Canada's relationships in the Indo-Pacific — a shift that appears linked to Canada's recent moves to overcome its security dispute with India.

Anand was in Japan and Malaysia this week for her first trip to the region since taking over as foreign minister in May. Her message coming out of that trip was that Canada's foreign policy is shifting — though not abandoning — the priorities set by the previous Liberal government of former prime minister Justin Trudeau.

Alberta is rolling out new regulations this fall banning transgender athletes from playing women’s sports, but the province will still welcome out-of-province transgender competitors.

Tourism and Sport Minister Andrew Boitchenko said the discrepancy is out of his hands.

“We don't have authority to regulate athletes from different jurisdictions,” he said in an interview.

In a followup statement, ministry spokeswoman Vanessa Gomez added it's due to outside sporting organizations being bound by out-of-province or international guidelines.

Residents of Foothills County are being urged to stay alert and prepared as a Tornado Watch was issued by Environment Canada late Sunday morning (July 13).

It warns that severe thunderstorms are likely to develop this afternoon and evening along the Foothills and move toward the southeast.