LETHBRIDGE, AB - A new theatre company is looking to make a big splash on its opening weekend in Lethbridge.Experience Theatre is a locally-run company, and they are premiering a show this weekend at CASA. The show is called I Hear Abel Singin' in the Field, created by Jess Syratt, a Lethbridge local and recent graduat...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - More money is available for local groups looking to host an event or initiative in the downtown area.The City of Lethbridge says the second intake is underway for the Re-Imagine Downton Activation Grant. The program supports various initiatives, events and program that provide a boost to the downtown c...

BROCKET, AB - A southern Alberta man has been charged following a traffic stop.The Piikani Nation RCMP says on April 11, 2024, an officer was alerted to a possible case of impaired driver. The RCMP conducted a traffic stop and found one person in the vehicle.Brocket resident Nigel Big Weasel, 40, was bound by a release...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - There are some fun events in the Lethbridge area this week, and Lethbridge News Now has the details.Tuesday Trivia Night - April 16, 2024Tuesday Trivia Night is held every week at the Hudsons in Lethbridge. Any team can enter the trivia night with a purchase, and there are prizes to win. Information on...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A new theatre company is looking to make a big splash on its opening weekend in Lethbridge.Experience Theatre is a locally-run company, and they are premiering a show this weekend at CASA. The show is called I Hear Abel Singin' in the Field, created by Jess Syratt, a Lethbridge local and recent graduat...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - More money is available for local groups looking to host an event or initiative in the downtown area.The City of Lethbridge says the second intake is underway for the Re-Imagine Downton Activation Grant. The program supports various initiatives, events and program that provide a boost to the downtown c...

BROCKET, AB - A southern Alberta man has been charged following a traffic stop.The Piikani Nation RCMP says on April 11, 2024, an officer was alerted to a possible case of impaired driver. The RCMP conducted a traffic stop and found one person in the vehicle.Brocket resident Nigel Big Weasel, 40, was bound by a release...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - There are some fun events in the Lethbridge area this week, and Lethbridge News Now has the details.Tuesday Trivia Night - April 16, 2024Tuesday Trivia Night is held every week at the Hudsons in Lethbridge. Any team can enter the trivia night with a purchase, and there are prizes to win. Information on...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Spring 2024 valedictorian at Lethbridge College has been unveiled.Annette Kampert will lead the procession at May's graduation ceremony.Chair of the college's School of Business James Reimer says Kampert is an "awesome student" in every sense."She has consistently, in all of her cour...

The Alberta government must produce thousands of documents on its attempts to encourage coal mining in the Rocky Mountains after a judge threw out a bid to block their release. In denying the government's request for a judicial review into an order to provide the documents, Justice Kent Teskey warned the province that ...

The tourism industry is back and better than ever.Travel Alberta reports that international visitors spent $2.53 billion in the province in just the first three quarters of 2023. In the last year before the COVID-19 pandemic began, international tourism spending totalled $2.28 billion for all of 2019.Minister of Touris...

The Alberta government must produce thousands of documents on its attempts to encourage coal mining in the Rocky Mountains after a judge threw out a bid to block their release. In denying the government's request for a judicial review into an order to provide the documents, Justice Kent Teskey warned the province that ...

A state-of-the-art milk concentration plant is under construction in Blackfalds, Alberta.Dairy Innovation West (DIW) is the first of its kind in Canada. The $75 million facility is owned by the Western Milk Pool that is supporting processing expansion in Western Canada and to reduce transportation costs for Western Mil...

OTTAWA - The first instalment of the 2024 Canada carbon rebate will be delivered to some Canadians today as long as they filed their taxes by the middle of March. Canadians living in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and all four Atlantic provinces will receive the first of four instalments today if they filed ...

At Calgary's Centre for Newcomers, where Kelly Ernst is chief program officer, staff have been - in Ernst's words - "run off their feet."The non-profit organization, which offers services and language training to immigrants and refugees in Alberta's largest city, served an eye-popping 50,000 clients last year...

CALGARY, AB - At Calgary's Centre for Newcomers, where Kelly Ernst is chief program officer, staff have been - in Ernst's words - "run off their feet."The non-profit organization, which offers services and language training to immigrants and refugees in Alberta's largest city, served an eye-popping 50,000 cli...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Freeland to present federal budget today Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is finally set to present the federal budget in the House of Commons on Tuesday afternoon, showcasing how the government pl...

ZEBALLOS, B.C. - The Department of Fisheries says planning for a new attempt to rescue an orca calf trapped in a Vancouver Island lagoon will be finalized in the next few days but no date has been set. It says in a news release that any new attempt to capture and release the young whale will depend on weather and the a...

ZEBALLOS, B.C. - A Vancouver Aquarium expert who's been involved in attempts to rescue an orphaned orca says the calf may be feeding on fish in the B.C. lagoon where she's been trapped for more than three weeks. Veterinarian Martin Haulena says he got a good look at the calf during Friday's failed attempt to corral the...

OTTAWA, ON - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is set to present the federal budget on Tuesday, April 16, 2024 after a countrywide tour that teased many of the housing and affordability measures to be included in the document. Here's what the federal Liberals have already promised. Housing plan On Friday, Prime Minist...

OTTAWA - The federal leader of the New Democrats is insisting his party's position on carbon pricing remains unchanged. But Jagmeet Singh is refusing to say explicitly whether he supports Canadians having to pay it on consumer items like gasoline. Singh met with reporters today for the first time since a speech last w...

OTTAWA - The Federal Court of Appeal says people can be barred from Canada under espionage-related provisions of the immigration law only when their activities have a clear link to Canadian security. The finding comes today in a pair of rulings involving men from Ethiopia who were found inadmissible to Canada for bein...

NEW YORK (AP) - Donald Trump returned to a New York courtroom Tuesday as a judge works to find a panel of jurors who will decide whether the former president is guilty of criminal charges alleging he falsified business records to cover up a sex scandal during the 2016 campaign. The first day of Trump's history-making h...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - One of Copenhagen's oldest buildings is on fire and its iconic spire has collapsed. The roof of the 17th-century old Stock Exchange, or Boersen, that was once Denmark's financial center, was engulfed in flames Tuesday. The building, which is situated next to the Christiansborg Palace where th...

SYDNEY (AP) - Australian police say a knife attack in Sydney that wounded a bishop and a priest during a church service as horrified worshippers watched online and in person was an act of terrorism. Police arrested a 16-year-old boy Tuesday after the stabbing at Christ the Good Shepherd Church that injured Bishop Mar M...

NEW YORK (AP) - Caitlin Clark was selected with the No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft by the Indiana Fever on Monday night. The former Iowa star became a household name among basketball fans during her record-breaking college career, and she will now try and help revive the Indiana franchise along with last season's No. 1 p...

The one thing 9-year-old Cal Clifford wanted more than anything since he was a toddler was a pet octopus. The boy's family in rural Edmond, Oklahoma, humored him with toy versions of an eight-legged mollusk, but as Cal got older it became clear that only the real thing would do. The child's father, 36-year-old dentist ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is allowing Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth while lawsuits over the law proceed, reversing lower courts. The justices' order Monday allows the state to put in a place a 2023 law that subjects physicians to up to 10 years in prison if they provi...