Airdrie

One of the biggest birthday parties of the year is returning next month.

June 22 will be a busy day at the Big Fun Inflatable Park as it will be hosting (once again) the 4th Annual Carson's Birthday (turning 12) Bash from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m., which will help raise funds for Autism Calgary.

Dustin Horlacher, the father of Carson, explained why they host a big birthday bash.

Micah Griffin, a grade 12 student at Koinonia Christian School, won first place in a nationwide video contest.

He found out a few weeks after discovering he had won at the provincial level.

According to Chinook's Edge School Division, SafeGen, which is a part of CAREERS the Next Generation, ran the competition. To compete, students had to submit a safety video they created themselves.

One of his teachers encouraged Griffin to join. He was automatically entered at the national level due to his victory at the provincial level.

Rocky View Schools has released its second feature on why RVS conducts assessments.

According to the school division, when students are assessed provincially, results are reported as intervention required/not required.

"Interventions take many forms and look different from student to student and subject to subject. In achieving our vision of students achieving their absolute best, RVS teachers and specialists work to find out which types of interventions will best assist each student."

Parts of Alberta's personal information protection legislation have been ruled unconstitutional.

But the ruling from Court of King's Bench Justice Colin Feasby also upheld an order to stop an American facial recognition company from collecting images of Albertans.

Clearview AI scrapes the internet and social media for images of people and adds them to a database, which it markets to law enforcement agencies as a facial recognition tool.

Livestock producers are being reminded to stay vigilant after lab results confirmed anthrax as the cause of death in two cattle on a farm in the Rural Municipality (RM) of Paynton No. 470. The confirmation came late Tuesday.

Workers at Canada Post could be heading back to the picket lines in a matter of days — but a labour expert warns postal workers might find negotiating conditions far less favourable now than they were during their holiday job action.

Canada Post said late Tuesday it was hitting pause on negotiations with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers after days of talks between the parties bore little fruit.

Opposition parties attacked Prime Minister Mark Carney Wednesday for being vague about his plans after his government said it would not table a federal budget before the House of Commons rises for the summer.

Following the first Liberal cabinet meeting after the swearing-in ceremony on Tuesday, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said instead of a spring budget, the government will put forward an economic statement in the fall.

About 180 employees were evacuated from a large commercial structure in northeast Airdrie on Wednesday morning after a crane accidentally struck and damaged an interior gas line, according to Airdrie Fire Chief Mike Pirie.

In a social media post on Wednesday, Pirie said fire crews responded to a report of a gas leak and staged apparatus with a water supply as a precaution.

ATCO (natural gas) and Fortis (electrical) isolated utilities in the area while the structure was ventilated.

A vehicle fire northbound on the QEII near CrossIron Mills Mall, just one kilometre north of Stoney Trail Northeast, has been extinguished by fire crews. Traffic flow has since resumed.

For cow-calf operations, a major driver of profitability is reproductive efficiency, or the number of calves weaned per cow exposed. There are a lot of factors influencing this outcome, from breeding time through weaning. However, some considerations can be looked at well before the breeding season begins.

After calving, cows will have about 30 to 100 days to recover, resume cycling and be re-bred to calve around the same time the following year. This period through calving and early lactation is when a cow’s requirements for energy and protein are the highest.