Thursday August 7, 2025
- Mackenzie County has updated the Stage 2 Water Rationing Advisory in La Crete. The Stage 2 recommendation is remaining in effect for the balance of the summer.
- Falher Mayor Donna Buchinski has been appointed as the Chair of the Regional Health Advisory Council in Northwestern Alberta.
- The Mackenzie County Ag. Fair and Trade show takes place tomorrow and Saturday at the Mackenzie Applied Research Association Experimental Farm, just outside of Fort Vermilion. (Thomas Simpson interview in separate story)
- The Provincial Government is earmarking up to nearly $13 million dollars to support three new energy projects to strengthening the electricty grid.
- Alberta’s government is creating fines and rules meant to curb predatory tow truck drivers.
- Week 10 of the CFL season begins tonight with BC in Hamilton. The Lions are 3-5, the Ti-Cats are 6-2.
- The Toronto Blue Jays have the day off today, as they settle in for a three-game weekend set in LA against the Dodgers.
The Jays are riding high, after they scored 45 runs on 63 hits in three games in Denver, earlier this week. - In Tennis, 18 year-old Victoria Mboko of Toronto has advanced to the Final of the National Bank Open Tournament in Montreal.
Mboko has become the first Canuck to defeat three former Grand Slam champions in a single tournament.
Mboko is now ranked 34th in the world, after starting the year outside the top 300. - Showers in the Peace, Rain in the Big Lakes, and summer in the Mackenzie…
That’s the forecast for this afternoon in the Northwest, with highs in the teens today, except for 26 up north.
Skies will begin to clear off overnight tonight, except in the Big Lakes where the rain continues. Lows are in the low teens.
Keith Hopper, Trending 55
