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Hot air balloons to create colourful spectacle over High River 09/24/2026

14th annual Heritage Inn International Balloon Festival is set to run from Sept. 23 to 27.

Hot air balloons to create colourful spectacle over High River 14th annual Heritage Inn International Balloon Festival is set to run from Sept. 23 to 27.

Beyond Local: Speeding driver gets ticket for over $600 in southern Alberta 09/23/2026

Joint operation brings traffic enforcement units from Foothills, High River and Diamond Valley together.

Beyond Local: Speeding driver gets ticket for over $600 in southern Alberta Read the full story and comment on TheAlbertan.com

Bylaw allowing backyard hens, egg sales in Sundre passes 09/23/2026

Pilot was extended for one-year period and produced no complaints

Bylaw allowing backyard hens, egg sales in Sundre passes

Beyond Local: Saddle Lake to provide gender-affirming health care, rejecting provincial legislation 09/23/2026

Saddle Lake Cree Nation announced they plan to provide gender affirming care to all Albertans. The province says its a matter of federal jurisdiction, but affirmed its opposition to hormone therapies and gender surgeries.

Beyond Local: Saddle Lake to provide gender-affirming health care, rejecting provincial legislation Read the full story and comment on TheAlbertan.com

Recently-announced draft curriculum change aligns with a Chinook's Edge goal 09/23/2026

Alberta's government announced Sept. 22 that it released draft grades 7 to 9 science, physical education and wellness 10, and CALM 10 for testing this school year

Recently-announced draft curriculum change aligns with a Chinook's Edge goal

Olds hopes for e-scooter clarity from Transportation minister at ABmunis' convention 09/23/2026

Council members at Sept. 23-25 Edmonton event looking to talk to cabinet minister Devin Dreeshen who is also the Innisfail-Sylvan Lake MLA

Olds hopes for e-scooter clarity from Transportation minister at ABmunis' convention

Beyond Local: RCMP investigate $500,000 worth of damages at pipeline station in northern Alberta 09/23/2026

A power failure alert at 2:30 a.m. led site staff to discover a break-in and copper theft at a pipeline facility in the County of St. Paul.

Beyond Local: RCMP investigate $500,000 worth of damages at pipeline station in northern Alberta Read the full story and comment on TheAlbertan.com

Beyond Local: Calgary study finds mind-body exercises improve quality of life in cancer survivors 09/23/2026

Compared with the control group, made up of those on the waitlist, the study’s findings, outlined in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, show that participants experienced less pain, fatigue, and sleep problems after partaking in the interventions.

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Beyond Local: Two men charged after woman trapped in tipped-over portable toilet in Calgary 09/23/2026

CALGARY — Police in Calgary have charged two men with hate-motivated assault after a woman became trapped in an overturned portable toilet.

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Fifth annual Innisfail Harvest Festival takes flight 09/23/2026

Two-day event raises the stakes for more than a thousand people who packed Innisfail’s Centennial Park to take in the town’s first ever drone light show

Fifth annual Innisfail Harvest Festival takes flight

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