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The Rocky View Rage's season has come to an end.

The Jr. B Tier 2 squad was eliminated in the first round of playoffs after a tough season on the floor.

The Calgary Axemen used home-floor advantage to their full benefit, taking Game 1 with a 13-3 win on July 17, then clinching the series with a 14-7 victory on July 19.

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The 2025 U18 Team Alberta will be remembered as the “Comeback Kings” after rallying for a second straight playoff game to capture their first national championship since 2007.

It took 18 years, but Alberta has finally added another Football Canada Cup title to its previous wins in 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, and 2007.

Tariffs and trade are top of the agenda as the country's premiers arrive in Ontario's cottage country for a three-day meeting that comes at a pivotal time for both Canada-U.S. and domestic relations.

The premiers' summer gathering in Muskoka will also feature a Tuesday meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney, as trade talks with the United States are expected to intensify.

After 45 years in their Jasper home, it took mere minutes for Wes Bradford's quaint mountain abode to burn to a pile of ash.

A year later, he and his wife are itching to rebuild. They've hired a contractor and designer, and their insurance will cover the expected $1-million price tag. But they can't start yet — not until their empty lot, currently a flat mound of dirt, has been declared contaminant-free.

"We're up against the wall," says Bradford, after meeting their builder in Jasper the day before.

Choosing the right replacement heifers is more important than ever for cattle producers, especially with today’s record-high calf prices.

“Replacement heifers represent the genetic potential of a producer’s operation,” says Alexis DeCorby, Livestock and Feed Extension Specialist with the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture’s Yorkton office.

“They’re a costly investment that requires about two years of inputs before they produce a live calf.”

The Bank of Canada has largely kept to the sidelines as it tries to get a sense of how U.S. tariffs will impact the economy — and some economists think it might just stay there.

After a quarter-point cut in March, the central bank held its benchmark interest rate steady at 2.75 per cent in April and June.

With last month's jobs figures showing a surprise gain and core inflation levels holding steady at around three per cent, economists now broadly expect the central bank will continue its holding pattern at its next decision on July 30.

Mounties in Alberta have issued a province-wide public safety alert following the death of a 16-year-old linked to a counterfeit pill containing a highly toxic synthetic opioid.

The pills, which closely resemble the prescription anti-anxiety medication Xanax, were found to contain isotonitazene, a powerful opioid that can be deadly even in small doses.

A major storm hammered Cochrane last night, but it hasn’t dimmed the lights on what’s been a rock-solid start to the Bow Valley Boot Stomp.

Organizers quickly moved the main acts indoors when the storm rolled in, and the party didn’t miss a beat.

The music fires up at 3 p.m. today at the Cochrane Ag Grounds. Taking the main stage are Annika Catharina, Travis Dolter, Kyle McKearney, and headliner Tony Stevens.

The community stage will be buzzing with six solo acts: Cruz Vallis, Reed Salmon, Berlyn Broadhead, Nik Poli, Jasmyn Wright, and Samantha Lee.

The Rocky View Rage is putting a lopsided 13-3 loss to the Calgary Axemen behind them as they return to the floor tonight at the Stu Peppard Arena.

It’s a must-win for the Jr. B Tier II squad to force a deciding game in the best-of-three series on Sunday.

The Axemen carved out a commanding 6-0 lead in the first period before the Rage responded with two goals in the second. Calgary added another that period, then pulled away with six more in the third to the Rage’s lone marker.

All games in the series are being played at the Stu Peppard.

The 2025 wildfire season is already one of the worst on record for Canada and there is a high risk that more fires will break out in August, federal officials said on Friday.

More than 5.5 million hectares of land have burned so far this year, more than double the 10-year average for mid-July.

That is still well behind the record fire season in 2023, when more than 6,000 fires burned more than 15 million hectares of land.

There were 561 fires burning as of Friday, including 69 that were considered out of control.