Airdrie

Alberta’s government and the Rural Municipalities of Alberta (RMA) are forming a working group to recover $253.9 million in unpaid property taxes owed by oil and gas companies — a growing financial burden that has left rural municipalities struggling to balance their budgets.

Alberta’s recreational property market is expected to outperform most western provinces in 2025, with the median price of a single-family home forecast to rise 2 per cent to $1,296,216, according to Royal LePage’s 2025 Spring Recreational Property Report, released March 26.

Buoyed by steady demand in Canmore and growing interest in lakefront properties near Edmonton, Alberta’s market saw a 1.2 per cent price increase in 2024, pushing the median price of a single-family home to $1,270,800.

On Sunday and Monday, the Adopt-A-Grad Foundation of Canada held their Formal Wear event, making sure all students will be able to attend their graduation in style.

Mike Reist, co-founder of Adopt-A-Grad, explained what the foundation is all about.

Spring may be on the calendar, but winter isn’t backing down just yet. Environment Canada lifted the special weather statement for Airdrie early Thursday, but another blast of snow and freezing temperatures is on the way.

The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is warning Airdronians to be aware of employment scams, which are on the rise.

With Airdrie being one of the fastest growing communities in Alberta, a lot of new Airdronians are looking for jobs, and for this reason, it's important to be on the lookout for job scams, explained Wes Lafortune, who works for the BBB.

Canadian police patrolling corners of the dark web are well aware of the commonly nefarious ways criminals exploit artificial intelligence. 

There's deepfake pornography. Voice impersonation. Romance scams that turn into financial fraud.

But recently there's been a new twist — criminals offering to "jailbreak" the very algorithms that form the architecture of AI's large language models, or LLMs, tearing down their safeguards so they can be retasked for criminal purposes.

Call it tech support for cybercriminals.

Four Chinook’s Edge students have qualified for the Skills Alberta Provincial competitions in May after earning top placements at recent regional events in Red Deer and Calgary.

According to Chinook's Edge, the four students who qualified for the provincials include:

Liberal Leader Mark Carney is back in Ottawa today to deal with the fallout of new auto tariffs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump. 

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Carney said he was suspending his campaign plans for the day and would return to Ottawa to hold a meeting of the Canada-U.S. cabinet committee.

It's unclear when Carney will be back on the road to continue campaigning. 

With only 100 days until the official kickoff of the Calgary Stampede, the organization has just announced that Canadian-born country music superstar Shania Twain will lead the 2025 Stampede Parade.

"A global superstar, celebrated songwriter and style icon, Twain is a five-time Grammy winner and one of music and fashion’s most renowned trailblazers," stated the Stampede.

The Alberta government has introduced legislation to overhaul the province's auto insurance system, replacing the current litigation-based model with a care-focused approach to reduce costs and speed up access to benefits.

If passed, Bill 47, the Automobile Insurance Act, would apply to collisions on or after Jan. 1, 2027. The proposed changes would establish a privately delivered system that covers medical treatment, rehabilitation, income replacement and permanent impairment—regardless of who caused the crash.