- Environment Canada has issued another heat warning for the Edmonton area. This next period of high temperatures will be milder and more short-lived than last week's heat wave, with temperatures reaching 29 C or warmer for the next three days.
- Sikh leaders are calling on the province to do more to address hate-motivated crimes. While they welcome the province's new security grant, leaders want to see stronger laws and more education on why hate is dangerous. A Sikh temple in Mill Woods has been the target of harassing phone calls and unsolicited deliveries since March.
- On Wednesday, council voted to move ahead with 16 of the 18 recommended actions in the Reimagine Services plan, including privatizing the city's three golf courses. The issue of paid parking at popular city facilities will be revisited next spring as part of a larger public parking policy discussion.
- The Edmonton Police Service's Human-centered Engagement Liaison Partnership (HELP) team moved into a new downtown building on Wednesday. The move puts them under the same roof as several social agencies and health services, in an effort to address the root causes of homelessness.
- After reviewing rider feedback, the city has made more than 40 service adjustments to its new bus routes, which were launched in April. Additional adjustments will come into effect on Aug. 29.
- Parish leaders are forming a committee to rebuild the Catholic church in Morinville that was destroyed by a suspicious fire last week. Though most of the 114-year-old building was destroyed, three bells that hung in the steeple have been salvaged.
- Edmonton Public Schools' superintendent Darrel Robertson has been named the Canadian Superintendent of the Year for 2020.
