Strathmore

Real Canadian Wrestling (RCW) is heading back to Strathmore for its "Collision Course" event.

The show takes place on Friday (Sept. 13) at the Strathmore Ag Pavilion and features several matches, including wrestlers who have appeared in Strathmore before.

"It's a very high energy, very crowd interactive family show," said Steve Hurley, an RCW wrestler and Strathmore resident. "There's some top talent from across Western Canada. Kat Von Heez and Ava Lawless, both ladies have been seen on AEW recently."

The Canadian Country Showcase, hosted by Courtney Fielder, airs every weekend on Saturdays at 12 PM and Sundays at 4 PM. Courtney engages in conversations with both emerging country music artists and the established stars we’ve come to love, celebrating their milestones and new releases.

The second annual Fall Festival was held outside of the Strathmore Full Gospel Church over the weekend.

Despite the event celebrating the arrival of autumn, temperatures were well into the 30s on Saturday (Sept. 7) as hundreds of residents made it out to enjoy some horse rides, potato sack races, and a free BBQ.

Bridge construction in Wheatland County is set to begin on Monday (Sept. 16).

According to Wheatland County, Range Road 250 will be closed to traffic, north of Township Road 252.

Staff with the county say drivers will be detoured to Highway 817 until construction is finished.

"The closure is expected to be lifted by November 2024," says a post from the county's Facebook page.

⁣The county is asking drivers to follow signage in the area during the closure while the contractor is working.

Several members of the Alberta government are heading to Tulsa, Oklahoma for the Energy Council's 2024 Annual Meeting.

MLA for Chestermere-Strathmore, Chantelle de Jonge, who is also the Parliamentary Secretary for Affordability and Utilities, will join Minister of Affordability and Utilities, Nathan Neudorf and Parliamentary Secretary for Economic Corridor Development Shane Getson, as they look to promote Alberta's energy sector to industry leaders and partners.

Former fashion mogul Peter Nygard has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for his sexual assault convictions in Toronto.

His time behind bars will work out to 6.7 years after accounting for credit he received for time already spent in custody.

Nygard’s lawyer had argued for a six-year sentence, citing the 83-year-old’s age and poor health, while the Crown sought a sentence of 15 years.

Nygard was convicted of four counts of sexual assault last November but acquitted of a fifth count as well as one of forcible confinement.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may be bracing for an earful from his caucus when Liberal MPs gather in Nanaimo, B.C. today to plot their strategy for the coming election year.

It will be the first time he faces them as a group since MPs departed Ottawa in the spring.

Still stinging from a devastating byelection loss earlier this summer, the caucus is now also reeling from news that their national campaign director has resigned and the party can no longer count on the NDP to stave off an early election.

A Saskatoon high school student remembers the pungent smell of burned hair going up her nose, and something like the strong scent from a Sharpie marker, moments after she watched a schoolmate being set on fire.

She had just stepped out of her Grade 9 social studies class for lunch on Thursday, she says, when she saw two other girls in a hallway. A girl in a crop top poured liquid from a black canister onto the head of the girl standing next to her.

When a father and son were arrested this summer in Ontario over an alleged terrorist plot, U.S. authorities say the news spooked a 20-year-old Pakistani national and Canadian resident named Muhammad Shahzeb Khan.

They say Khan used encrypted messaging to warn that because of the arrests "here in Toronto," there was a need to "lay low" on his own alleged plans: killing as many Jewish people as possible in New York around the Oct. 7 anniversary of Hamas' attack on Israel.

Tributes poured in Friday for Grand Chief Cathy Merrick of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, who died after collapsing outside the Winnipeg Law Courts building. 

Merrick, the first woman elected to the role, was talking to reporters about two court cases when she said she felt dizzy and fell to the ground. 

Fire and paramedic crews arrived, performed chest compressions and carried Merrick away on a stretcher to an ambulance, which sped off with its siren on.