A local dance group has been in Lethbridge for 30 years and they look to celebrate with fun, vibrant and fan-favourite performances.The Troyanda Ukrainian Dance Club is holding its anniversary event on Saturday, April 12 at the Yates Memorial Theatre.The event will feature lively performances featuring traditional danc...

The very best collegiate athletes and coaches at the University of Lethbridge were honoured for their skills and contributions.Pronghorn Athletics hosted its 58th Annual Blue and Gold Awards ceremony on Thursday, April 3, honouring student-athletes during the 2024-25 season.The following information was provided by Pro...

Municipal leaders from 28 communities across the country are heading to Lethbridge later this month.The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) is gathering mayors to continue work on developing the first municipally-led, integrated standards for treatment, harm reduction, recovery, prevention and enforce...

Members of the public should not be alarmed if they hear gunshots in the River Valley today.The Lethbridge Police Service says its cadets are participating in a low light/no light shooting training exercise at the Police Range.This is expected to take place between 2:00 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. on Friday, April 4.There is s...

The field of candidates in the 2025 federal election in Lethbridge has widened to six.The Christian Heritage Party has announced Marc Slingerland as its candidate in the southern Alberta city.Slingerland is no stranger to election campaigns as he represented the party in 2006 and 2019.He says abortion is his top policy...

Voters in Coaldale will have a chance to meet their candidates in the federal election later this month.The Coaldale Chamber of Commerce is set to host a federal candidates forum at Civic Square on Monday, April 14, 2025. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. and the event begins at 7:00 p.m.Chamber President Robert Woolf says, &quo...

The New Democrats have chosen their candidate for the Bow River riding in southern Alberta.Louisa Gwin looks to become the riding's first MP following the 2025 federal election.She provided the following answers to LNN in a questionnaire.Why did you want to run in the 2025 federal election? This is my first time runnin...

Brooks RCMP is asking for the public's help in locating a missing person. Yasmine Agostino, 20, was last seen approximately a week ago in Brooks, RCMP said Friday. Police said she may be located in Red Deer and that there is concern for her safety. Agostino is described as having dark complexion, five-foot-four-inches ...

Call2Recycle has launched a new program in Alberta to give residents more convenient options to recycle batteries.The program, "Recycle your Batteries, Canada!" officially began April 1 and operated under the Alberta Recycling Management Authority oversight. According to a media release, Call2Recycle is Canad...

Referral eligibility for Alberta Health Services' (AHS) Prehabilitation Program has been expanded to include any adult in Alberta waiting for surgery. The program was launched at Edmonton hospitals in December 2023 and prepares individuals for surgical procedures in an effort to improve patient outcomes and experiences...

As the weather warms up and roads become clear again, Alberta RCMP would like to remind motorists of the dangers of speeding. Even with improved driving conditions, RCMP say unsafe speeds increase the risk of collision and serious injury for all road users. "Speeding is one of the biggest threats to traffic safety...

The very best collegiate athletes and coaches at the University of Lethbridge were honoured for their skills and contributions.Pronghorn Athletics hosted its 58th Annual Blue and Gold Awards ceremony on Thursday, April 3, honouring student-athletes during the 2024-25 season.The following information was provided by Pro...

Hockey fans in Lethbridge will get to take in at least one more WHL playoff game this season.The Lethbridge Hurricanes entered game four of its first-round series with Brandon looking to potentially sweep the Wheat Kings on the road but were unsuccessful.The Manitoba squad came out with a 6-4 victory to bring the serie...

The Lethbridge Hurricanes could sweep the first round of the WHL playoffs with a win on the road Wednesday. The Canes were victorious in game three over the Brandon Wheat Kings on Tuesday with a score of 3-1.Carsen Adair kicked off scoring two minutes into the contest with assists from Voytech Port and Miguel Marques.A...

Agricultural producers in the Lethbridge-Medicine Hat region can rejoice - more water will be available to you this growing season.The St. Mary River Irrigation District (SMRID) set its water allocation for 2025 at 12 inches, an increase of 50 per cent from last year.SMRID board chair George Lohues says the initial all...

Registration is now open for any place that wants to be a host farm for Alberta Open Farm Days. This year's edition is set for August 16 and 17. The weekend gives people a chance to visit farms and ranches, see food production first-hand and try and buy locally produced products. The theme this year is Water, The Lifeb...

OTTAWA - The Canadian government has announced support for the country's agriculture sector as it deals with tariffs imposed by China. The federal agriculture department says in a news release that the current payment cap under AgriStability, a program that works similarly to crop insurance, will double to $6 million f...

VANCOUVER - Wang Yan vividly recalls the last time she heard her husband's voice, more than five years ago. It was Dec. 13, 2019, and Canadian citizen Li Yonghui had gone to a public square in Shijiazhuang, in China's Hebei province, to exercise as he spoke to his wife in Canada by mobile phone. "Suddenly, the cal...

JASPER, ALTA. - Every summer for 61 years, tourists have piled onto Jasper's SkyTram to see the boomerang-shaped town nestled inside the sprawling Rocky Mountains. It'll happen again this summer, but the view will be different. The red cable cars will skim over thousands of trees poking up from the ground like charred ...

DETROIT - Glenn Stevens Jr. can look out his office window in downtown Detroit and see Canada. The view encapsulates historic automobile achievement between two countries despite a flowing river and international border - one that's on the brink of being ripped apart. "Our economies in auto between Ontario and Mic...

OTTAWA - Federal party leaders are starting the second full weekend of the federal election campaign at opposite ends of the country. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is in B.C. while NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is in Atlantic Canada. Singh is set to make an announcement in St. John's in the morning, before travelling...

MONTREAL - Quebec's Court of Appeal has refused the provincial government's request to allow arbitrary police traffic stops to continue until a legal challenge of the practice is heard by the Supreme Court of Canada. In a decision rendered earlier this week, the province's high court said the negative impacts of random...

HALIFAX - Recruiters say there's been a surge of interest from American doctors considering moving to Canada since the election of U.S. president Donald Trump in November. Katrina Philopoulos, recruitment director for Nova Scotia Health, says 27 American doctors are in serious negotiations to move, which to date has re...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republicans plugged away overnight and into early Saturday morning to approve their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks and spending cuts framework, hurling past a hard line of Democratic opposition toward what President Donald Trump calls the "big, beautiful bill" that's central to his a...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Wayne Gretzky witnessed Alex Ovechkin scoring his 893rd goal to move one back of tying his NHL record, as the Canadian great made his first in-person appearance during this chase. Gretzky said it was important to "the integrity of the game" to make sure he was there in case Ovechkin broke hi...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Alex Ovechkin did not take long to move one goal away from tying and two from breaking Wayne Gretzky's NHL record. Ovechkin beat Spencer Knight 3:52 into the Washington Capitals' home game against the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday night. He took a pass from Dylan Strome behind the net and banked the pu...