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Alberta Parks has issued a bear closure for parts of Kananaskis Country after multiple bears were reported frequenting the area.

Both the Rockwall Trail and the meadow surrounding the Peter Lougheed Discovery Centre are off-limits to the public.

The closure is aimed at keeping both visitors and wildlife safe.

While an advisory already covers the broader region, officials are reminding the public that bears can be encountered anywhere in Kananaskis at any time.

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Riley Taylor is no stranger to small towns, but the country singer from Burton, N.B., is finding a whole new kind of hometown connection on his latest tour through Alberta.

“I've been loving it,” Taylor says. “This is all brand new to me,the mountains, the Prairies. I think it’s awesome.”

The 27-year-old artist, who won the 2021 Boots & Hearts Emerging Artist Showcase, is currently on the Small Town Hometowns Tour, making stops across Western Canada before wrapping up in Ontario.

Book lovers, mark your calendars!

The Friends of the Cochrane Public Library Spring Book Sale returns May 24 and 25 at the Cochrane Ranchehouse. 

Shoppers can browse a wide selection of gently used books and movies at bargain prices, with all proceeds supporting library services and collections.

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Grow a Reader: Support Cochrane Library’s 75th anniversary goal

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.

Zone 2 pickeballers have earned berths in this summer's Alberta 55+ Games in a qualifier held recently in Cochrane.

Dawn Baker, the Area 7 representative for the Big Country Senior Sports Society (BCSSS), says 32 players took to the courts at the SLS Centre. Several others received byes into the August provincial games.

Zone 2 pickleball gold medallists were:

Level 4 winners:

Women's 65+ Doubles: Rhonda Bews & Gerri Tullikopf-McKay

Men's 65 Doubles: Steve Katulka (Bearspaw) and Gary Hawkes

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.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is releasing an update with April stats on federally reportable diseases.

As of April 30th, there have been 17 cases of avian influenza, with three in British Columbia, one in Alberta, three in Saskatchewan, and two in Manitoba.