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Sunflowers is one crop that could hold a lot of potential for producers on the prairies. 

Currently, the majority of the acres in the prairies are found in southern Manitoba, with some acres also grown in Saskatchewan and Alberta.

Crops Extension Specialist Sherri Roberts says sunflowers is a crop that can be seeded a little bit later, and is generally harvested into October which can help to spread out the workload.

A local golfer has won the 2022 Alberta Schools Athletic Association Golf Provincial Championship. 

Mya Rowan, 16, a Grade 12 high school student at Salisbury Composite, shot for a score of 144 over the two-day tournament last week. The score was good enough for par and edged out her closest competitor by two strokes. 

One of the shots that helped her was a hole-in-one. 

Strathcona County RCMP is investigating the sudden death of a man after discovering a body near the North Saskatchewan River near Township Road 540 on Sunday (Oct. 2). 

The area was closed off to the public while RCMP was on the scene. 

Police believe the death is not suspicious. They are currently in the process of identifying the body. 

No further details have been provided. 

Updates will be added once they become available. 

A fourth-grade girl in Bruderheim is honouring residential school victims. 

On Sunday (Sept. 25), McKenna Bonner was hard at work painting a sidewalk in the town orange. Bonner came up with the idea after learning of her family's history with the schools. 

"My mom and dad are Indigenous," said Bonner. "My mom's side of the family went to residential schools." 

The process to get the sidewalk painted wasn't straightforward. Bonner first had to present her idea to the town council for approval. 

Construction on the widening of 94 Street is coming along nicely. 

The project will widen the road from two lanes to four to help ease the high volume of traffic near the community hospital.  

The city expects construction crews to complete work in the next couple of weeks depending on the weather. 

Grant Schaffer, director of fleet, facilities, and engineering for the city, says drivers can expect delays in the area. 

The Alberta government is providing $20.8 million over the next four years to implement recommendations from a star-led task force on human trafficking.

Country singer Paul Brandt, chair of the Alberta Human Trafficking Task Force, personally thanked Premier Jason Kenney during the funding announcement Sunday at Edmonton International Airport for his willingness to prioritize the issue, and for putting faith in Brandt to lead the group.

Manitoba has about 47 per cent of the crop in the bin, Saskatchewan's harvest is now 81 per cent complete, while Alberta's major crop harvest is now 76 to 88 per cent complete.

In Manitoba killing frosts arrived in much of the western side of the province on the morning of September 22nd and much of the rest province saw frost on September 27th. Some crop injury is expected in green canola and soybeans, but damage is expected to be relatively light.

Recovery continues in Atlantic Canada as people continue to work on picking up debris following the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona. 

The storm wreaked havoc across the Maritimes from power outages to infrastructure loss, loss of homes and fishing boats, damage to dairy farms, farms and crops.

Posting on Twitter Mary Robinson, President of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture lives in P E. I and like many in Atlantic Canada has spent the week picking up after the storm. 

Don’t cry for me, Alberta, I was leaving anyway.  

It's Premier Jason Kenney’s swan song message as he prepares to depart the province's top job, forced out by the very United Conservative Party he willed into existence.

"I was never intending to be in this gig for a long time,” Kenney told an audience earlier this month. He had planned for one more provincial election, he said.

Edmonton Oilers netminder Stuart Skinner simply stoned the Jets in their own barn.

Skinner not only stopped 33 of 35 shots, but he shut them out in both overtime and the shootout as the Oilers beat the Jets 3-2 in an NHL pre-season shootout before 14,190 fans at the Canada Life Centre on Saturday night.