More than 150 organizations across the county, including Inclusion Lethbridge, urging Ottawa to build a rights-based approach to defining disability. The groups are asking the federal government to better clarify application requirements and remove existing barriers and unneccessary red tape. "The application is c...

Police in Lethbridge are investigating a reported assault Saturday night outside a downtown nightclub.LPS says a 24-year-old man was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries after being attacked by as many as six people.The incident took place in the 1200-block of 1st Avenue South and apparently was over a ...

Although Alberta didn't change its clocks yesterday, our neighbours to the south did, with the time, now, in Montana an hour behind us. As we told you last month, that means some changes in operating hours in Canadian border crossings to accomodate the time shift. For the Aden and Del Bonita point of entries, it's 10 a...

Opposition over plans by the Alberta government to make changes to the electoral boundary map ahead of next year's provincial election continue to grow. Speculation is the legislation, if approved, would see the current Lethbridge East and West urban ridings morphed into four urban/rural electoral divisions. Lethbridge...

The Alberta Legislature will host a Remembrance Day Ceremony on Wednesday, Nov. 4.Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Rick McIver, will host the ceremony and says, "remembrance gives us an opportunity to pause and reflect on the sacrifices made by generations of Canadians who served our country in times of war, c...

The Government of Alberta reports that the work done by its wildfire preparedness program and firefighting crews led to a successful wildfire season.In addition, significant rainfall across the province also contributed to a less active season.However, even though it's the end of the season, that does not mean wildfire...

A 64-year-old man from the Crowsnest Pass has died following a two-vehicle collision on Highway 3, just west of Cowley.RCMP confirm the driver of a pick-up truck, a resident of Coleman, died on scene Friday morning during a collision with an SUV on the highway at Township Road 74, near Lundbreck.The driver of the SUV w...

The same day one separatist leader was given the boot from the United Conservative Party, another faction of Alberta's separatist movement has taken a hit.Cameron Davies has announced he is resigning as leader of the Republican Party of Alberta.And as noted, it was earlier Friday when Premier Danielle Smith shared that...

Here are the Weekly Top-10 Rankings for all five levels of high school football in Alberta for the 2026 season.These rankings will be released every Sunday (except for the Labour Day kickoff) through November 9.At that time, those will be the last rankings, and teams will take this rank into provincials.The 12-a-side t...

The Lethbridge Hurricanes Hockey Club has announced the signing of 2008-born goaltender Dylan McFadyen to a Western Hockey League Scholarship and Development Agreement. The team says McFadyen, 18, was originally drafted by the Brandon Wheat Kings in the sixth-round (121st overall) in the 2023 WHL Prospects Draft. They ...

It's an off weekend for the Lethbridge Polytechnic men's and women's basketball teams, with the Kodiaks not scheduled to be back on the court until next Friday and Saturday, November 6th and 7th, for road games at Concordia and University of Alberta-Augustana. The men's volleyball club is also off until next weekend wh...

The St. Mary River Irrigation District announced last week it's awarded $30,000 through three separate memorial scholarships. 15 students throughout the region were given $2,000 each towards their schooling, ranging from agronomy to crop technology and sustainable agriculture. Board chair Cory Nelson says the District ...

The UCP government has introduced wide-ranging legislation, it hopes, will safeguard Albertans in the areas of consumer protection and property rights.The changes are contained inside an omnibus bill, Bill 34, the Service Alberta and Red Tape Reduction Statutes Amendment Act.Included in the document - help for owners o...

Alberta Beef Producers is bringing back its Young Creators Contest, again, this year. "One of the biggest reasons is that it gives young people an opportunity to learn more about where there food comes from and the people involved in producing it," said Engagement & Digital Content Specialist, Kara Mastel...

OTTAWA - Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem says he doesn't think the federal government's fiscal policy is at odds with the central bank's efforts to control inflation. Macklem spoke to members of Parliament on the House of Commons finance committee...

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia tribunal has ruled it cannot penalize social media platform X for not deleting an intimate image of a person shared online against her will, and that blocking the image in Canada instead reasonably addresses its unlawful ...

OTTAWA - The annual immigration levels update will be included in the federal budget being released Thursday, a government source with knowledge of the plan confirmed. This will be the second year the annual update is included in the budget document. P...

Results from an annual national poverty survey paint a worsening picture of food affordability in Canada, especially for young people, as tariffs imposed by the United States continue to shake up the Canadian economy. The Salvation Army's 2026 Poverty ...

Defence officials say there were no injuries after a military helicopter was seriously damaged during a night flight landing on a Canadian navy frigate. A flight safety report from the Department of National Defence says it happened Oct. 6 aboard the H...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Americans head to the polls for midterm election referendum on Trump's tenure Americans head to the polls Tuesday to vote in U.S. midterm elections that will serve...

ILULISSAT, Greenland (AP) - Greenlandic lawmakers on Tuesday voted to approve an agreement between the Arctic island, Denmark and the United States to strengthen security in the Arctic and North Atlantic after months of pressure by U.S. President Donal...

BERLIN (AP) - Several flights across Europe received alleged bomb threats Tuesday that ultimately turned out to be hoaxes but prompted searches, diversions and, in one case, an escort by the Italian Air Force until landing, officials said. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States will stop providing $4 billion in aid each year to Israel in 2027 but will sell arms to its closest ally in the Middle East, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday. The Republican president told Fox New...