Airdrie

Die, My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, premiered at the 78th Cannes Film Festival on May 17. According to Variety, the film received a six-minute standing ovation following its world premiere and is in competition for the Palme d’Or.

The movie was filmed in Calgary, Okotoks, Didsbury and at a farmhouse near Balzac, according to production advocacy group Keep Alberta Rolling.

Another screen production filmed in Alberta also made headlines this month.

Alberta will become the first province in Canada to require inspections for all incoming watercraft starting June 1 to prevent the spread of invasive mussels.

The rule covers all motorized and non-motorized watercraft, including boats, jet skis, kayaks and paddleboards. Travelers must stop at an open inspection station when entering Alberta from the south or east. If no station is nearby, vessels must be inspected within seven days and before entering any Alberta waterbody.

A Calgary judge has ruled that Alberta can be sued over a 2014 crash near Cochrane that left a man quadriplegic after he struck a downed traffic sign on a provincial highway.

The ruling followed an application brought by Alberta’s Ministry of Transport to strike a lawsuit filed by Eugene Coolidge. The incident occurred at the exit from Highway 1 to Highway 22 in Rocky View County, identified in court documents as the 161A exit.

"The application is dismissed," wrote the Honourable Applications Judge J.L. Mason in the decision.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada deployed an investigator to Springbank Airport in Rocky View County, Alberta, on Friday, May 16, following an accident involving a privately registered amateur-built aircraft.

In a media release issued that day, the board said it had deployed an investigator to the airport and would be gathering information and assessing the occurrence.

Airdrie RCMP are reminding residents to report all suspicious or criminal activity—regardless of how minor it may seem—saying every report helps build a clearer picture of what’s happening in the community.

In a May 18 media release, the detachment stated that "timely and accurate reporting helps police better understand what’s happening in the community and supports both short-term investigations and long-term crime prevention strategies."

The City of Airdrie is urging residents to register to vote ahead of the 2025 municipal election, citing new provincial requirements under Bill 20.

Online registration is open at airdrie.ca/registertovote and will close Sept. 14. Residents can also register in person while voting between Oct. 8 and 20.

Ryan Straschnitzki's life has been an open book since he was seriously injured in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash, and his story is soon to be shown on TV.

The 26-year-old from Airdrie, Alta., was paralyzed from the chest down in 2018, when a semi-trailer ran a stop sign and barrelled into the path of the junior hockey team's bus in rural Saskatchewan. 

Sixteen people died and 13 were hurt.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's former chief of staff is suing the fired CEO of the province's front-line health agency and the newspaper that first reported allegations of corruption in multimillion-dollar health contracts.

Marshall Smith has filed a statement of claim alleging defamation against former Alberta Health Services head Athana Mentzelopoulos, the Globe and Mail, and an unidentified person believed to be a former AHS board member.

Statistics Canada is set to release inflation data for April today.

Market data shows economists on average expect the annual rate of inflation cooled to 1.6 per cent last month, from 2.3 per cent in March.

The Liberal government eliminated the consumer carbon price at the start of April, offering motorists some relief at the pump.

Last month also marked the first full month of tariffs between Canada and the United States, though both sides have offered some exemptions in the trade dispute.

High-ranking officials from the world's top economies are in Banff, Alta., this week for a three-day summit that will cover topics including the global economy, the war in Ukraine and artificial intelligence.

The meeting comes during a period of heightened instability as U.S. President Donald Trump continues his tariff-driven effort to bring industry to American soil, leading many countries to reconsider their trade relationships with the United States and other trading partners.