PINCHER CREEK, AB - A family of local doctors has established two new awards at the University of Lethbridge (U of L).Drs. Beverly and Tracy Burton practise medicine in Pincher Creek, Alberta. Their mother Christine Beverly is a retired science teacher.The three have joined together to create the Burton Family Bursary ...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - National Salvage has teamed with Wood's Homes for a new charitable initiative. The Lethbridge-based company is launching its 'Skip the Scale for Charity' project in May, which marks Mental Health Month. For the entire month, residents will have the chance to, as Wood's Homes puts it, "transform sc...

Alberta has released its two top baby names in the province for 2023.Noah was revealed as the most popular boys name in the province, while Olivia is the top girls name. This marks the fifth and 11th years in a row, respectively, that the two names sat in the top spots.The province says babies with nature-inspired name...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Whoop-Up Days parade is set to entertain Lethbridge on August 20, 2024. Applications are now open for those that want to participate in the parade, which serves as a kick-off to the annual festival in the city every summer.Officials say the theme for the 2024 parade is 'Grow Up Western'. "Peop...

PINCHER CREEK, AB - A family of local doctors has established two new awards at the University of Lethbridge (U of L).Drs. Beverly and Tracy Burton practise medicine in Pincher Creek, Alberta. Their mother Christine Beverly is a retired science teacher.The three have joined together to create the Burton Family Bursary ...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - National Salvage has teamed with Wood's Homes for a new charitable initiative. The Lethbridge-based company is launching its 'Skip the Scale for Charity' project in May, which marks Mental Health Month. For the entire month, residents will have the chance to, as Wood's Homes puts it, "transform sc...

Alberta has released its two top baby names in the province for 2023.Noah was revealed as the most popular boys name in the province, while Olivia is the top girls name. This marks the fifth and 11th years in a row, respectively, that the two names sat in the top spots.The province says babies with nature-inspired name...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Whoop-Up Days parade is set to entertain Lethbridge on August 20, 2024. Applications are now open for those that want to participate in the parade, which serves as a kick-off to the annual festival in the city every summer.Officials say the theme for the 2024 parade is 'Grow Up Western'. "Peop...

MEDICINE HAT, AB - The summer of 2001 was the last time Medicine Hat saw a dry season comparable to the one expected this year, a city official said Tuesday.Jamie Garland, the director of environmental utilities with the City of Medicine Hat, pointed to the diminished snowpack in the mountains."Those upstream rese...

PINCHER CREEK, AB - Three people have been charged following an alleged incident in southern Alberta this week.The Pincher Creek RCMP says during the morning hours of April 22, 2024, officers responded to a complaint of a dispute involving multiple people outside a home in the community. The RCMP says it was reported t...

The Government of Alberta hopes a new compensation model will lead to more people being able to access primary care.They have released more details about the Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Program, which allows nurse practitioners to set up their own clinics.Premier Danielle Smith says the program will allow them to e...

Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. is preparing for the possibility of a strike by some 3,300 workers next month. "The way I see it, the positions have not changed a lot," chief executive Keith Creel told analysts on a conference call Wednesday. "Obviously hope for the best, but you have to make sure you ...

Alberta has released its two top baby names in the province for 2023.Noah was revealed as the most popular boys name in the province, while Olivia is the top girls name. This marks the fifth and 11th years in a row, respectively, that the two names sat in the top spots.The province says babies with nature-inspired name...

RED DEER, AB - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says it's a good idea to have a physician who accused the province of exaggerating COVID-19's impact on hospitals now lead a review of pandemic-era health data.Smith says Dr. Gary Davidson was selected to lead the data review because she wants to hear a range of viewpoints,...

The Government of Alberta is taking a step that it says will help the publishing and entertainment industries to thrive.They are putting $8 million into the Alberta Media Fund. It gives grants to book and magazine publishers, sound recording agencies and film producers. The money can be used for art production, trainin...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A group overseeing doctors in Alberta is reporting progress with recruitment efforts.The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta (CPSA) says, as of March 31, 2024, there were 303 fully registered physicians practicing in Lethbridge.In the same period last year, the city had 275, marking an annual...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will weigh the constitutionality of a pandemic-related restriction that curbed travel for public-health reasons. The top court has agreed to hear arguments about a 2020 order from Newfoundland and Labrador's chief medical officer that limited the circumstances in which non-residents...

OTTAWA - Canada is targeting Iran's defence minister as part of a new round of sanctions imposed after the country's retaliatory attack on Israel earlier this month. The sanctions affect two institutions and two military leaders, and come a week after Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said Canada would targe...

OTTAWA - Federal Conservatives and New Democrats are demanding assurances from Ottawa that local jobs will be protected at new electric-vehicle plants. Canada's Building Trades Union says Canadian workers are being sidelined in favour of foreign workers at the NextStar battery plant in Windsor, Ont., owned by Stellanti...

OTTAWA - New Canadian data suggest that over a nine-year period between 2012 and 2020, the equivalent of more 15 billion plastic bottles and as many as 14 billion plastic grocery bags became litter in Canada's environment. The data come as Canadian negotiators are at an Ottawa convention centre with peers from 174 othe...

CHETWYND, B.C. - An out-of-control wildfire in northeastern British Columbia has triggered the province's first evacuation of this year's fire season. The Peace River Regional District declared a state of local emergency and issued an evacuation order for an area near Chetwynd, B.C., last night. The 50-hectare Wildmare...

OTTAWA - International environmental advocates are calling for a petrochemical plant in southern Ontario to remain closed in light of reports about a benzene leak that continues to affect a neighbouring First Nation community. The letter, signed by more than 100 organizations around the world, calls on Canada's enviro...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The man who fatally shot retired NFL star Will Smith during a confrontation following a car crash in 2016 received a 25-year prison sentence Thursday in a New Orleans courtroom. It was the second time Cardell Hayes, 36, had faced sentencing in Smith's death. He was convicted of manslaughter in Decemb...

BALTIMORE (AP) - The first cargo ship passed through a newly opened deep-water channel in Baltimore on Thursday after being stuck in the harbor since the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed four weeks ago. The Balsa 94, a bulk carrier sailing under a Panama flag, passed through the new 35-foot (12-meter) channel headed ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Ariel Henry resigned Thursday as prime minister of Haiti, leaving the way clear for a new government to be formed in the Caribbean country, which has been wracked by gang violence that killed or injured more than 2,500 people from January to March. Henry presented his resignation in a lette...

JIUQUAN SATELLITE LAUNCH CENTER, China (AP) - China launched a three-member crew to its orbiting space station on Thursday as part of its ambitious program that aims to put astronauts on the moon by 2030. The Shenzhou-18 spacecraft lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the edge of the Gobi Desert in no...

Palestinian hospital officials said Israeli airstrikes on the southern city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip killed at least five people. More than half of the territory's population of 2.3 million have sought refuge in Rafah, where Israel has conducted near-daily raids as it prepares for an offensive in the city. In central...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Poland's Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski told parliament on Thursday that the government wants to return to the group of countries which sets the agenda of the European Union. Sikorski was describing the new direction of the government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk, explaining to a world audience ...