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A local theatre troupe is headed to the biggest fringe theatre festival in North America.

This Play Has Zombies, an original production from Foothills-based collective The Erratic Players, is among 223 productions featured at the 44th Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival, running from August 14-24.

The WCBL West Division Championship kicked off last night (August 6), and the Brooks Bombers had a ruff go of it.

With a final score of 11-4, the Okotoks Dawgs started the playoffs on the right foot, as they chase their fourth consecutive championship title.

The game started off quiet, but the Dawgs opened up the game with a four-run second inning, and managed to score in almost every inning after that.

Not only were the Dawgs able to hold off the Bombers from scoring for the first five innings to secure the win, but they also saw success at the plate.

The chuckwagons are in Dawson Creek, B.C., this week for the latest leg of the WPCA Pro Tour.

Day one of the Battle of the North was held on Aug. 6 and saw Evan Magee take the top spot, followed by High River's Jason Glass, who finished just ten one-hundredths of a second behind.

Glass currently holds the number one spot in the WPCA world standings.

Dayton Sutherland of De Winton landed in ninth place, with Jordie Fike of Blackie placing 15th.

The Battle of the North continues nightly until Sunday, August 10.

High River's Museum of the Highwood will once again serve as a filming location over the next several days.

It was closed on Monday and Tuesday of last week, and has just announced additional closures and limited access extending into next week.

The Alberta RCMP are on the lookout for Dustin Edward Wood for various crimes.  

Wood was included in this week's edition of Wanted Wednesday.  

His last known location is Calgary, with areas of activity including Okotoks, Black Diamond, Brooks, Langdon, and Strathmore.  

The Town of High River is warning residents about the presence of a noxious but pretty weed.

Creeping Bellflower, a perennial plant with purple, bell-shaped flowers, has been spotted around town. Despite its beauty, it spreads aggressively and is tough to get rid of.

Each stem can produce up to 15,000 seeds, and the plant is resistant to some herbicides, making it difficult to control. It typically blooms between June and September.

Because of its rapid spread and resistance, Creeping Bellflower can damage gardens, crops, and local ecosystems.

The RCMP will be moving to a new location in Nanton.

Currently, the RCMP detachment is at 2501 21 St, but will be moving to 1907 - 21 Ave, which happens to be the present location of the Town Office on Highway 2 South.

In a media release about the move, the Town and the Alberta RCMP state that this move will provide a strong, visible, and accessible police presence in Town.

The Town is leasing the RCMP the space the Town Administration is in for 20 years, but this move will not affect the Nanton Library.

Administrators say federal government needs to build more trust into the Advance Payment Program

Administrators of the Advance Payments Program say Ottawa should stop treating farmers as if they are going to default on repayments.

They said the application process should be streamlined and the program made simpler and more consistent.

Dave Gallant, vice-president of finance and APP operations at the Canadian Canola Growers Association, said the CCGA administers about $2.5 billion in advances each year on behalf of the federal government.

One person was seriously injured after a small plane crashed on a private airstrip in central Alberta.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says the two-seater was flying Tuesday from Wetaskiwin to Linden, a town about 100 kilometres northeast of Calgary.

The agency says the plane was approaching the rural airstrip when its fixed landing gear hit a fence and flipped.

RCMP say two 82-year-old men were on board.

They say one was airlifted to hospital in serious condition and the other was taken by ground ambulance with minor injuries.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service says it's dealing with a growing number of immigration security screening requests — and immigration lawyers say their clients are coping with long delays as a result.

The intelligence agency says in its latest annual report it received over 538,000 screening requests from immigration and border officials in 2024. The agency began to see a significant increase in requests in 2023, when it received over 493,200 requests. Before that, CSIS received roughly 300,000 security screening requests annually over the previous five years.