Airdrie

Four hockey players with ties to Airdrie were selected in the 2025 Western Hockey League (WHL) Prospects Draft.

Goaltender Karter Gibson was selected 65th overall in the third round by the Tri-City Americans. He played for Northern Alberta Xtreme U15 Prep and is listed as being from Airdrie.

Centre Owen Grassick was picked 80th overall in the fourth round by the Moose Jaw Warriors. He played with the Airdrie U15 AAA Xtreme and is listed as being from Cochrane.

Airdrie is among more than 50 Alberta communities where new job training programs and services are available under a $33.2-million investment by the provincial government.

Alberta's Ministry of Jobs, Economy and Trade announced the 2024-25 funding on May 9 through its Training for Work program, which aims to support more than 5,000 unemployed or underemployed Albertans over the next four years.

The Crossfield and Madden Food Bank was originally expecting 10,000 pounds of donated food after Crossfield’s Kraft Hockeyville run ended in April. What arrived on May 8 was more than double.

Kraft Heinz delivered 23,000 pounds of food — a 12-pallet shipment that food bank co-founder Cheryl Longeway called both overwhelming and sustaining.

Alberta's access to information watchdog has found the provincial government to be non-compliant with its own freedom of information rules.

A new report from information and privacy commissioner Diane McLeod says Alberta's government has implemented internal procedures and policies that allow government employees to wrongfully deny freedom of information requests.

Alberta's chief electoral officer is warning the government that proposed legislation will impair the election commissioner's power to investigate election rule breaking.

A controversial bill introduced last month, if passed, will make sweeping changes to voting and referendums in the province, and is making its way through debate in the legislature. 

Alberta is committing $25 million through Budget 2025 to expand and modernize the W.J. Elliott trades building at Olds College - part of a $63-million investment spread over three years, first announced in 2024.

The project will add more than 440 new seats in skilled trades programs and 100 seats for dual-credit students. According to Advanced Education Minister Rajan Sawhney, the dual-credit stream lets students earn post-secondary credit while finishing high school.

Environment Canada issued a rainfall warning Sunday afternoon for parts of Rocky View County near Airdrie and Crossfield, with up to 80 millimetres of precipitation expected by Tuesday morning.

Rain is forecast to begin Sunday night and intensify through the day on Monday before tapering off early Tuesday. The warning states that rainfall totals between 50 and 80 mm are possible. Wet snow may mix in Monday morning and evening as snow levels fall below 2,000 metres.

Environment Canada has issued a rainfall warning for Airdrie and surrounding areas, with as much as 80 millimetres of precipitation expected by Tuesday morning. Meanwhile, a snowfall warning is in effect for the Kananaskis region west of Calgary, where 10 to 15 centimetres of heavy, wet snow is forecast over higher elevations.

The federal government expects to spend about $7 million this fiscal year to store and maintain four custom-made, portable hospitals that cost taxpayers more than $200 million to buy — facilities meant to bolster overwhelmed hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic that were barely used.

Early on in the pandemic, as the federal government moved at breakneck speed to respond to a global health crisis, it issued rush orders for these Mobile Health Units.

Emergency crews responded to a bush fire that was reported to be located at Chinook Winds Park on Saturday afternoon.

RCMP confirmed a 911 call was made at 2:02 p.m.

RCMP say they were on scene assisting the Airdrie Fire Department as firefighters worked to extinguish the blaze.

No injuries have been reported. Authorities say more information will be released as it becomes available.