Canola contracts move early as growers watch a dry June
Elevators north of the river are signing at levels last seen in 2023, and nobody wants to be the last one to price.
Ninety minutes on one culvert: how Hanna council decides what a road is worth
The crossing on Range Road 131 failed in April. Fixing it costs $86,000, and four families use it every day.
Province rewrites the rural policing grant, and the counties do the math
The new formula weighs road kilometres instead of population. For counties with more grid than people, that changes everything.
The last grocery store between Trochu and Delia changes hands
After twenty-nine years, the Vandenbergs are selling to the co-op — and the co-op is keeping the butcher counter.
The latest
- Kneehill council votes 5–2 to keep the grader News
- The gravel budget is the real infrastructure debate Opinion
- Rowley's one-night museum opens for its fortieth summer Community
- 850-pound steers are paying for the trucking again Agriculture
- A dry June ends with forty minutes of rain, and it mattered Weather
- The Linden rink replaces its ice plant after thirty-one winters Community
- Special Areas board asks the province for a seat at the water table Politics
- The seed plant at Carbon books its first full season since the rebuild Business & Markets
Kneehill council votes 5–2 to keep the grader
Contracting out gravel maintenance looked cheaper on paper. The paper did not include March.
Special Areas board asks the province for a seat at the water table
Irrigation expansion is being planned for the river the dry country depends on, and the dry country wants it in writing.
850-pound steers are paying for the trucking again
Thursday's sale cleared 402.50, up two dollars, and the buyers on the phone were all from feedlots south of the river.
The seed plant at Carbon books its first full season since the rebuild
Two years after the fire, the cleaning line is running double shifts and the wait list runs to March.
Rowley's one-night museum opens for its fortieth summer
Population eight, pizza night once a month, and a main street kept exactly as it was left.
The Linden rink replaces its ice plant after thirty-one winters
The compressor that outlived three Zambonis retires in August. The fundraiser that replaced it took nineteen months and one very good pie…
The gravel budget is the real infrastructure debate
Ribbon cuttings get the cameras. Getting home in March gets you to the hospital, the school and the bin.
A dry June ends with forty minutes of rain, and it mattered
Eleven millimetres in one cell, nothing twenty kilometres east. Here is who got it and what is coming.