Airdrie

Olds will impose Level 2 water restrictions on Thursday at 7:00 a.m. as the town upgrades the South Reservoir. The restriction will last 24 hours, with updates provided once the work is complete.

While the North Reservoir will remain fully operational, the town will work with reduced storage capacity as the South Reservoir operates intermittently. Town officials are urging residents to conserve water during this period to maintain supply and system pressure.

With the Federal election in full swing, Airdronians are seeing more and more election signs popping up across the city, with more to come.

Willow Czaban, a senior planner with the policy planning team at the city of Airdrie, explained that election signs are allowed to go up when the writ of election is dropped. According to Election Canada, the writ of election is a formal written order instructing the returning officer in each electoral district to hold an election to elect a member of Parliament.

A recent report by the Canada Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) has given the Alberta government a D- for its efforts in protecting the province’s land and water.

The D- is an upgrade from the F it received from CPAWS back in 2021.

According to the reports, the governments of Newfoundland and Labrador, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Ontario received the lowest grades, ranging from D- to F.

Registration for Rocky View Schools' (RVS) high school summer school is now open.

Summer school is available at RVS Community Learning Centre locations in Airdrie, Chestermere or Cochrane.

According to RVS, the Summer School Registration deadline for diploma-level courses is May 30; the deadline for non-diploma courses is June 6 at noon.

Some of the courses available include: 

Liberal Leader Mark Carney promised Monday to get the federal government back into the business of home building, while Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives pitched a national energy corridor to fast-track approval of key infrastructure.

The New Democrats rolled out their own national project — a promise to help retrofit 3.3 million homes and pay for it by cutting supports for big oil and gas companies. 

Manitoba farmer Tyler Fulton is the new President of the Canadian Cattle Association. The Birtle area cattle producer moved into the role during the organization's recent annual meeting in Ottawa.

"Well, I'm excited," shared Fulton. "I'm a little tentative just given the political environment and the geopolitical environment and the reliance on trade. Overall, I feel well prepared, well supported, and so in that sense I'm excited to take on the challenge, and do my best to just represent cattle producers across the country with all the sectors covered off."

“I called for my dad, and he came and looked, and it was like a scene out of a horror movie.” 

This is what Cohen Hildebrand said of the day his recovery from a routine tonsil and adenoid surgery suddenly went awry in the most unpredictable way. 

It’s a sequence of events etched into not only his memory, but also his family's.  

Airdrie’s notorious rush-hour crawl is about to get a serious upgrade—one that trades brake lights and traffic jams for smooth, sky-high commutes.

Plans are officially underway for the Airdrie-Calgary SkyGlide—a high-speed gondola system that promises to transport passengers between Nose Creek Park and downtown Calgary in just 25 minutes.

Parks Canada has provided additional context regarding the seasonal restriction on tents, tent trailers, and soft-sided camping equipment at the Lake Louise Trailer Campground, a measure implemented annually to protect campers and wildlife during heightened bear activity.

A fire on Monday afternoon closed Airdrie’s transfer site. According to city officials, the fire department was on site to investigate. It is expected that the site will remain closed for the rest of the day.

The transfer site is 7 kilometres west on Highway 567, next to the Airdrie rodeo grounds.