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Town of Fort Macleod focuses on new neighbourhood next month for feral and stray cats
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Lethbridge City Council
Formal approval expected today for added cenotaph inscription recognizing Afghanistan veterans
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Full service to return Thursday
Number of city services suspended Wednesday for National Day for Truth & Reconciliation
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Lethbridge and Area

Oct. 13-16
Town of Fort Macleod focuses on new neighbourhood next month for feral and stray cats
The Town of Fort Macleod is holding another rollout of its Trap, Neuter, and Return program for feral and stray cats in the community next month. The latest round will in the 500 and 600 block of 17th Street and will take place between October 13th and 16th from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. The Town is asking, that if you...
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Reconciliation
Partnership established between polytechnic and cultural centre to study Indigenous misinformation
Lethbridge Polytechnic and the Ninastako Cultural Centre are working together on a project to address misinformation relating to the Indigenous community. The study will look into both how misinformation is spread and the impact it has on communities, and what can do done to address the issue. Being carried out through...
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Lethbridge City Council
Formal approval expected today for added cenotaph inscription recognizing Afghanistan veterans
Lethbridge City Council is expected to formally pass a request to have the city's cenotaph add a new inscription recognizing veterans of the Afghan War. At last week's Community Issues Committee, Council unanimously agreed to modify the existing monument to read "Afghanistan 2001-2014." Today's regular Counci...
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Full service to return Thursday
Number of city services suspended Wednesday for National Day for Truth & Reconciliation
Many of the services provided by the City of Lethbridge won't be available or curtailed for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (NDTR) on Wednesday, September 30th.Here is a list of changes and links supplied by the City.City Hall: City Hall is closed. Regular hours resume on October 1, from 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 ...
10h ago
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Alberta

575,000 mammograms
Mobile mammography program marks 35 years of bringing breast screening to rural Alberta
An Alberta mobile mammography program that has travelled to rural and remote communities for 35 years has completed more than 575,000 mammograms.Primary Care Alberta's Screen Test program marked the milestone this fall, with two mobile units now travelling to about 120 communities across the province, screening as many...
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red deer, airdrie, airports would be stops
High-speed rail connecting Alberta's big city downtowns advances another step
A high-speed rail line between Calgary and Edmonton, with a stop in Red Deer, took one more step towards becoming a reality on Monday.Today, the Alberta government said plans are moving forward, with the federal government supporting its efforts to advance the project.This fall, the provincial government will formally ...
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Oct. 19 Referendum
Former British PM David Cameron says Alberta separation vote unlike Brexit
The former leader of the United Kingdom during the Brexit referendum says you can't compare that debate to Alberta's prospective split from Canada. David Cameron largely avoided talking directly about Alberta's separation debate when speaking at an energy leadership conference in downtown Calgary on Monday morning. But...
Sep 28, 2026
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Oct. 19 Referendum
More ballot requests received in Alberta referendum than last provincial election
Elections Alberta says it has received 11 times more requests for mail-in ballots for the upcoming vote on separation than it did in the last provincial election. The agency says it has received roughly 658,000 requests for special ballots for the Oct. 19 referendum, and about 100,000 of those electors have voted. Elec...
Sep 28, 2026
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Local Sports

Week 4
Football Alberta Weekly Top-10 Rankings
Here are the Weekly Top-10 Rankings for all five levels of high school football in Alberta for the 2026 season.These rankings will come out every Sunday (except for Labour Day kickoff) from now up until November 9.At that time, those will be the last rankings, and teams will take this rank into provincials.The 12-a-sid...
Sep 28, 2026
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Heritage Junior Hockey League
Copperheads open 2026-27 season with home loss to Cochrane
The Coaldale Copperheads opened the 2026-27 HJHL campaign on a losing note, falling 3-1 to the Cochrane Generals Saturday night at the Coaldale Sportsplex.The game between the historically evenly-matched squads went scoreless until the 9:40 mark of the second period, when the Generals' Gairen Bona, on a pass from Evan ...
Sep 27, 2026
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Hurricanes
Canes edged out by Rebels as winless streak continues
A much better effort by the Lethbridge Hurricanes Friday night, but they simply weren't able to stop Red Deer Rebels' captain Beckett Hamilton.The 18-year-old from Saskatoon scored three times in a Rebels 4-3 result over the Canes at VisitLethbridge.com Arena.Hamilton's first goal came just over three minutes into the ...
Sep 26, 2026
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Agriculture

Prairie Rose Public Schools
University of Lethbridge bee research gives Prairie Rose students hands-on agriculture experience
Prairie Rose Public Schools is expanding its agriculture education programming through an apiary project that is giving students hands-on experience with bee health, pollination and agricultural research.On Thursday, Sept. 17, students and guests gathered at the Prairie Rose bee yard at Neubauer Farms to see agricultur...
Sep 17, 2026
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Harvest Forecast
Cooler, rainy beginning to month to give way to milder, drier ending
After a very wet start to September, it looks like producers here in the South will be getting a bit of a break with harvest time coming up fast. The Weather Network's senior meteorologist Doug Gillham is predicting a warmer than normal and drier forecast, starting late this week. "Of course, normal is rapidly fal...
Sep 14, 2026
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IrriMap
New web-based program created for farms by Lethbridge Polytechnic research group
Scientists with Lethbridge Polytechnic's Mueller Irrigation Research Group have created a new tool that measures evaporation and transpiration.The easy-to-use, web-based program will help producers growing crops and hay know exactly how much water is needed in their fields.Dr. Michael Kehoe, with the research group, co...
Sep 04, 2026
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Canada

Young Canadians less hopeful about democracy: Statistics Canada study
A study suggests young Canadians are more likely to feel hopeless about democracy than older residents. The Statistics Canada study found about a quarter of respondents aged 25 to 44 were "not at all hopeful" about how democracy works in Canada, while ...
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Carney announces $1.2 billion for oceans ahead of expected pipeline decision
VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Mark Carney says the government is making a new $1.2 billion investment in ocean conservation as the country inches toward a decision on a new West Coast pipeline. Speaking in Vancouver today, Carney said the funds will go to...
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Canada's peacekeeping myth 'needs to fade away,' retired general writes in memoir
OTTAWA - Canada's former top soldier says the country's "persistent myth" about being a nation of peacekeepers hasn't kept up with a changing world and it "needs to fade away." In a new memoir, retired general Wayne Eyre says traditional, UN-style peac...
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Poilievre set to speak on national unity in Edmonton ahead of separation referendum
EDMONTON - Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is set to speak on national unity tonight in Edmonton, with less than three weeks to go until Albertans vote on separation. Poilievre is to deliver a keynote speech for a stronger Alberta within a...
3h ago
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Watchdog flags problems with spy service's use of legal authority to commit offences
OTTAWA - The Canadian Security Intelligence Service may not have complied with the law when using special powers to gather information, a review by the national spy watchdog has found. The CSIS Act allows designated spy service employees to commit cert...
4h ago
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Carney suggests immigration increase is on the horizon in New York Times interview
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney says that with Canada's immigration system back under control, the question now is when to begin a "controlled increase" of the country's population. Carney made the remark in a recent interview with the New York Tim...
4h ago
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World

Supreme Court lets quick deportations to third countries resume for now while it weighs Trump policy
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday let President Donald Trump's administration continue swiftly deporting people to countries other than their own for now, while the justices consider whether the policy is legal. The apparent ...
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British police find no explosives but questions remain after arrests near a US-run military base
LONDON (AP) - A surprise decision by the U.K.'s counterterrorism police to release five suspects on bail during an investigation into a suspected bomb plot at a U.S.-operated air force base in England has deepened questions and uncertainty about the in...
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Federal prosecutors charge Venezuelan man shot by ICE agent in Texas with assaulting an officer
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Federal prosecutors on Tuesday announced an assault charge against a Venezuelan delivery driver who was shot in his car by a federal immigration agent in Texas, accusing the man of striking an officer with his side mirror while try...
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