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• Freight train derails in field east of Calgary

  Crews are cleaning up after a train derailment about 100 kilometres east Calgary Thursday afternoon.

  

• Victims of serious crash east of Calgary identified as sisters from France

  RCMP say two victims injured in a horrific crash east of Calgary earlier this week were family members visiting from France.

  

• Worker buried in trench collapse during sewer repairs in Charleswood

  Occupational Health and Safety is investigating a trench collapse that occurred at a utility repair site in the community of Charleswood on Thursday.

  

• Supreme Court of Canada won't hear unvaccinated woman's case for organ donation

  The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear the appeal of an Alberta woman who was unwilling to be vaccinated in order to get a life-saving organ transplant.

  

• Drop In Centre opens 35 withdrawal and recovery beds to combat rising drug poisonings

  More than 1,200 drug poisonings occurred inside or around the Drop In Centre between January and April of this year, according to the facility’s executive director.

• Silver Springs sinkhole swallows front-end of SUV

  Members of the Calgary Fire Department were called to a sinkhole that opened up in the community of Silver Springs on Thursday.

• Alberta Premier Danielle Smith downplays link between wildfires and climate change

  Premier Danielle Smith says the government is bringing in arson investigators from outside the province to trace the cause of some wildfires during an unprecedented season in Alberta.

• Lethbridge Fire and EMS remind river safety tips ahead of summer season

  It’s expect to be a hot summer across southern Alberta, which has officials reminding those planning to cool off in a river or body of water to be cautious and plan ahead.

• Classroom Champions: Siksika Nation students get tour of Olympic Oval with Team Canada speed-skater

  Students from Siksika Nation had an elite field trip on Thursday, spending the day at the Olympic Oval as part of a private tour and training experience with a Team Canada speed skater.

• High River auto body shop owners featured in Discovery Channel reality series

  The series is called Bush Wreck Rescue and it's described by the producers as "Western Canadian motorheads obsessed with turning abandoned trucks into custom gems, hunt for old rust buckets, drag them out of the bush and go to great lengths to transform them into vintage classics."

• CJAY92 donates $20K to Calgary family whose van was stolen, hurting 5-year-old's T-shirt business

  After a string of devastating setbacks, a Calgary family has just had a significant change of luck.

• Southern Alberta town cancels alert after cougar sighting

  The Town of Magrath in southern Alberta cancelled an alert for a dangerous animal after a cougar was spotted on the Magrath nature trail early Thursday morning.

• Supreme Court of Canada dismisses appeal application by Christian Joffre Ouellette

  An application to appeal his murder convictions was dismissed by the Supreme Court of Canada.

• Jake Maier ready to take another step for the Stampeders

  When Jake Maier and the Calgary Stampeders take to the field against the B.C. Lions on Thursday night, he says he'll finally be able to put behind him the loss to the Lions in last years' western semi-final.