Opinion

When tragedy strikes as it did this past week near Balzac, when an Airdrie man riding a motorcycle collided with a pick-up truck and was killed last Wednesday, it is important to come together as a community to not only express our sympathies to the

Whenever autumn rolls around, I can’t help but feel a sense of awe and wonder. It is my favourite time of year, bar none. It is the moment when everything in nature reaches its ultimate purpose.

Over the past week two stories have once again brought the importance of local political participation forcefully to mind.

Last week the Airdrie Food Bank put out an emergency call for donations as the need for local food support has grown. However, it’s not just the need that has grown, but also the fact that the amount of food donations coming in has diminished.

I always figured I'd be writing a farewell column at some point, and I guess that day has arrived. After a little over five years of working here, this is officially my last column for the Airdrie City View .

As we approach the last days of August, and September looms, it has been a strange summer.

Despite a plethora of breaking news stories about wildfires in recent weeks (first Maui in Hawaii, then multiple fires near Yellowknife and West Kelowna) you won't be able to see stories about these incidents on your Facebook feed.

Rocky View County needs to be more proactive when it comes to addressing the local water emergency that is afflicting the entire metro Calgary region.

With dry conditions continuing in the mountains and river levels falling to their lowest point of the year in the region, the City of Airdrie imposed water restrictions on local households.

The summer break is pretty much over, and I'm diving into my last year of journalism school. Time has really zoomed by, and I can't help but feel super excited about what's coming my way.