T55 Daily News Blast

Wednesday May 20, 2026

Authorities in High Prairie are investigating another possible threat on social media.
The RCMP says several students have seen the post, and mentions the incident might happen on Friday, but no specific schools have been mentioned.
In the meantime, a police presence has been set up at all schools in town, while the investigation is underway.
All is quiet right now on the Northwestern Wildfire front after the May long weekend.
Mop-up work is continuing with holdover fires from 2025, but restrictions and advisories are expected, as the weather dries out and warms up later this week.
The Hot Tub project at the Peace Regional Pool is nearing completion.
Construction walls are down, and despite smaller barricades in place, staff is preparing for the amenity to be in use.
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation is looking to Ottawa for funding as the search for human remains near the St. Francis Xavier Residential School.
The First Nation has been working with the University of Alberta’s Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, and says it has identified several areas using ground-penetrating radar close to the site of the residential school with a high potential for buried human remains.
McDonald’s restaurants are McHappy with their fundraising totals from this year’s Day.
Over $12,000 was raised in Peace River from food, beverage, socks and merchandise, round-up donations, and in-store heart purchases.
Alberta’s Opposition says the decision by Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservatives to schedule a last-minute committee meeting suggests the government might be looking for a new way to get a separation question on a fall referendum.
The federal government says the Canadian Forces Snowbirds team is being grounded until the early 2030s while its aging planes are replaced.
It says the modern CT-157 Siskin II aircraft will take over for the CT-114 Tutor jets.
Wheatbelt Baseball League opens tonight with Grimshaw in Grande Prairie.
The struggling Toronto Blue Jays play Game 3 of a four-game set in the Bronx tonight, with a decent pitching matchup.
Trey Yesavage starts for the Jays against Cam Schlittler.
NHL playoffs tonight… Game 1 of the West final – Las Vegas is in Colorado.
Mix of sun and cloud this afternoon in the Northwest, with a chance of showers thrown in. Highs are in the mid teens, with lows tonight being chilly, at just below 5 degrees.
Temperatures will get up into the 20’s by the end of the week.