Airdrie

Cremona’s Grade 7–9 band returned from the national music festival with a gold award for their performance.

Alex Hutcheon, Cremona School’s band director, shared that this finish signifies an achievement of excellence in all aspects of the band’s performance.

Canada Post on Wednesday laid out its "final offers" to the union representing 55,000 workers after negotiations resumed Wednesday morning, as tensions run high over the future of the beleaguered institution.

Included in the proposal are an end to compulsory overtime, a signing bonus of $1,000 for urban employees and $500 for rural and suburban ones, cost-of-living payments that are triggered at a lower inflation threshold.

Parliament gets back to work Wednesday with a new Speaker, a new prime minister and plenty of new faces in the House of Commons.

Speaker Francis Scarpaleggia will preside over the House of Commons for the first time today, while his office has confirmed that all 343 members of Parliament have now been sworn in.

Roughly a third of those MPs, including Prime Minister Mark Carney, were elected for the first time in April and will face their first question period today.

A 34-year-old woman from Lake Louise has died after falling while skiing in the backcountry near Moraine Lake.

Parks Canada received a report at 7 a.m. on Tuesday, May 27, of a skier who had fallen a considerable distance, according to an RCMP statement.

Visitor Safety Specialists with Parks Canada responded to the call. The skier was extracted by a long line with support from Alpine Helicopters.

STARS air ambulance also responded, but the woman was pronounced dead at the scene. RCMP confirmed she was a resident of Lake Louise.

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) has placed a heat warning for Airdrie and the surrounding area.

According to ECCC, high temperatures reaching or exceeding 29 degrees Celsius and overnight lows near 14 degrees Celsius will begin on Wednesday and last into Thursday night.

"Take action to protect yourself and others – extreme heat can affect everyone’s health. Determine if you or others around you are at greater risk of heat illness. Check on older adults, those living alone and other at-risk people in-person or on the phone multiple times a day."

InteliRain is like the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, but for irrigation farmers — getting their fields “just right” for water distribution.

The Calgary-based company uses an automated variable rate irrigation system that allows growers to maximize yields, minimize workloads and conserve water.

An Airdrie man says he and his partner are finally ready to get married after a $1-million LOTTO MAX win earlier this month.

"We’ve been engaged for 12 years, and now we can actually plan a wedding," said Jack Puglas, who matched one of the MAXMILLIONS prizes on the May 6 draw.

Puglas said he was making coffee when he scanned his ticket with the Lotto Spot app and couldn’t believe what he saw.

"I scanned it a few times before I went to wake my fiancé up," he said. "She scanned it on her phone too and then we went to the [Circle K] to see if it was real!"

From Alberta to Manitoba, residents across the Prairies are out of their homes, while others remain on edge as wildfires inch closer to their communities.

The Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation in Saskatchewan has imposed an evacuation order for more than 1,800 residents of Pelican Narrows, 412 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon.

They are to flee to PAGC Urban Services, also known as the Margo Fournier Centre, in Prince Albert.

A new report is warning the annual levy charged to Alberta oil companies to fund the cleanup of orphaned oil and gas wells remains too low to keep up with the rate of surrendering.

The report, written by former University of Calgary Public Interest Law Clinic lawyer Drew Yewchuk, says this year's levy rate combined with low rates in previous years is leading to an estimated funding shortfall of $1.2 billion.

The Americas Agriculture and Food Security Forum will be held at Olds College and run parallel to the G7 meeting in Kananaskis.

The agenda for this year’s G7 Leader’s Summit contains no discussions of agriculture or food security, but one organization is aiming to make up for what the G7 lacks at an event of it own.