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The Friends of the Bar U are asking the public for help bringing home a painting that was recently sold in error.

The painting, Bison on the Western Range, was created by local artist Corrie Buwalda and depicts the land as it may have looked before the ranch was established.

The Calgary Police Service (CPS) is investigating a fatal collision in the city's deep south over the weekend.

At around 3:30 a.m. on Sunday, July 14, police responded to a single-vehicle crash on 194 Avenue S.W., between the communities of Silverado and Walden.

According to CPS, a 2004 BMW 320i was travelling eastbound at a high rate of speed.

Investigators believe the vehicle began to rotate while crossing a bridge over railway tracks, then crossed a median and struck a light pole.

Diamond Valley Fire Rescue (DVFR) crews responded to a range of calls over the weekend.   

On July 12, at approximately 3:20 p.m., crews responded to a reported structure fire in the 500 block of 1st SE.  

There were initial reports of smoke filling a basement.   

DVFR responded with Engine 3, Ladder 3, Engine 2, Squad 2, Bush 2, and a Duty Chief, along with 16 firefighters.   

The Southern Alberta RCMP Crime Reduction Unit (SAD CRU) arrested a suspect who was unlawfully at large after defeating her court-ordered electronic monitoring device on July 10.  

Chaylee Eagle Plume Bruised Head, a 36-year-old resident of Blood Tribe First Nation, was arrested in May for her involvement in a theft network in Southern Alberta.  

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.