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High River will once again host film crews early next week.

Traffic control and parking restrictions will be in place at various locations from Sept. 8 to 11.

The Town of High River shared the schedule on Facebook:

Monday, Sept. 8: Filming along 3 Avenue SW & 3 Avenue SE, traffic control and parking restrictions on MacLeod Trail & 5th St SE.

Tuesday, Sept. 9: Filming on 8th Avenue SE & Crescent Avenue and 2nd Street SE with intermittent traffic control.

Wednesday: Sept. 10: Parking restrictions on MacLeod Trail & 5 Avenue SW.

A Fog Advisory is in effect in Foothills County.

Environment Canada warns of "near zero visibility fog" over the region.

"Visibility may be significantly and suddenly reduced to near zero. Travel is expected to be hazardous due to reduced visibility in some locations," reads the advisory.

It's expected to dissipate over the course of the morning.

The advisory is in effect for:

With it being harvest season, there is a risk of wildfires growing quickly.

Harvest fires can grow quickly, move rapidly, and burn with so much intensity that they are able to produce 20-to-30-foot flame fronts.

Vulcan County took to social media to provide some harvest fire safety tips to prevent fires from spreading quickly.

According to Vulcan County, have diskers and water trucks in place, because fires can spread before the fire department arrives.

The disks can quickly create fire breaks, and the water trucks can act as immediate fire suppression.

The Town of High River is advising residents of an upcoming sidewalk closure.  

On Sept. 5, from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., crews will be completing construction work.   

During the work, the east sidewalk of Macleod Trail SW between 4 Ave SW and 5 Ave SW will be closed.  

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Thursday human smuggling across the border with Canada is getting worse — and that traffickers are looking north following the Trump administration's crackdown at the border with Mexico.

"The northern border, it always has been, but it's gotten much worse, much more prevalent because … it's a multibillion-dollar business, the smuggling of drugs, guns and humans," Bondi said during a news conference in Tampa, Fla.

Messages of condolences and support poured in for a Manitoba First Nation after a mass stabbing on Thursday, including from a First Nation in Saskatchewan that experienced one of its own exactly three years earlier.

Police say eight people were found severely injured in two homes on Hollow Water First Nation, northeast of Winnipeg.

An 18-year-old woman died while the suspect, her 26-year-old brother, died after the stolen vehicle he was driving collided with a vehicle driven by a police officer responding to the attack.

A brother and sister are dead and several others, including a Mountie, injured after a mass stabbing Thursday on a Manitoba First Nation.

Police say the woman, 18, was among those stabbed by her brother, 26-year-old Tyrone Simard, in the early morning attack on the Hollow Water First Nation northeast of Winnipeg.

Diamond Valley Mayor Barry Crane has announced he will not be running for re-election this October.

Crane made the announcement in a Facebook livestream earlier this week, reflecting on his 12 years in municipal politics and expressing gratitude to those who supported him along the way.

He was first elected to Turner Valley town council in 2013 and later acclaimed as mayor in a 2019 by-election.

The Town of Nanton is advising residents of tree removal work, as part of the site preparations for a new school.  

The work is taking place on 24 Avenue, south of J.T. Foster School from Sept. 4 to Sept. 8.  

As part of the work, the sidewalk in the area will be closed, and traffic will be reduced to one lane.   

The Conservative Party is calling for an end to the Temporary Foreign Workers program; in its place, they are calling for a single program for the agriculture sector.

Leader Pierre Poilievre quoting the latest employment stats from July, points out we now have 14.6  per cent unemployment rate and 1.6 million Canadians unemployed.

He says the principle behind ending the program is very simple. "Canadian jobs for Canadian Workers"