Lethbridge County Council has re-elected their reeve and deputy reeve.During their annual organizational meeting Thursday, Oct. 15, Division 2 Councillor Tory Campbel was selected to serve as reeve for his sixth consecutive year, while John Kuerbis of Division 4 will serve as deputy reeve for his fifth year.Campbell ha...

The University of Lethbridge is inviting students, friends, families, and the public to join in graduation festivities this weekend.The Co-op Centre for Sport and Wellness will be hosting the Fall 2026 Convocation, celebrating the graduation of 318 U of L students, Saturday, Oct. 17.The event will also recognize honora...

The City of Lethbridge has temporarily closed a section of the Highway 3 bridge over the Oldman River today, Oct. 15.Effective 9:00 a.m., the left-hand westbound lane has been closed while crews conduct repair work on the west end of the bridge, with plans to shift to the right-hand lane once the repairs are complete.O...

The Lethbridge Police Service has arrested a suspect in connection to a short-term investigation by the Sex Crimes Unit.On Sept. 29, police received reports of suspected human trafficking and learned an adult female was being trafficked in Lethbridge, having been previously trafficked in various locations across Canada...

Alberta's former top election official says he has effectively lost his right to vote in the province's upcoming separation referendum, and he's pointing the finger at his successor. Glen Resler says he applied to vote by special ballot but was unable to get it back in the mail last week, when Canada Post could still g...

The silence from many Alberta business leaders on the upcoming provincial referendum comes as no surprise to one corporate leadership expert. Monday's vote includes 10 questions; one on whether Alberta should remain in Canada or move toward a binding separation referendum; five on immigration and four on constitutional...

Alberta RCMP issued 1,861 traffic violation tickets over the Thanksgiving long weekend as part of a traffic safety campaign.This includes 755 for speeding, 32 for distracted driving, and 25 for seatbelt infractions.Over the weekend, the police took part in enforcement initiatives as part of the Canadian Association of ...

Someone in Alberta outside of Calgary and Edmonton is holding a lottery ticket worth $100,000.The Western Canada Lottery Corporation (WCLC) says two tickets, one that was bought in Calgary and another outside the two big metro areas, are Lotto Max winners.The winning selections for the two tickets were (exact match onl...

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...

The Lethbridge Hurricanes return home from Washington State with six points in their pocket after taking all three of their games against the Tri-City Americans on Wednesday, 5-3, Spokane Chiefs, 4-2, Friday, and the Wenatchee Wildcats, 4-1, on Saturday night.For Canes goaltender, Koen Cleaver, Saturday's victory was b...

The Lethbridge Hurricanes begin a three-game road trip through Washington State, starting tonight against the Tri-City Americans in Kennewick. The Canes are coming off a .500 weekend with a 3-1 win over Prince Albert Friday night but a 7-4 loss Saturday to Calgary. The Red & Blue also travel for games this week in ...

Water deliveries in the St. Mary River Irrigation District end Thursday, Oct. 8, as the district wraps up its 2026 irrigation season.Irrigators are asked to ensure their dugouts are filled before the end of the day Thursday and to check that their valves and works are shut off before the start of the 2027 water season....

Alberta Grains is inviting farmers from all six growing regions in the province to either nominate themselves or another producer, to be a director or delegate for the commission. Scott Jesperson is the chair of Alberta Grains...To be eligible, farmers have to be growing wheat or barley in their home region and have pa...

It's hoped a two-day conference planned for late November will help the Lethbridge & District Cultural Society to re-shape its direction and future."Really, the Ag Society, right now, is trying to engage the community as much as we can and improve public ag literacy. Get the non-agricultural public, potentiall...

OTTAWA - Former deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland says it's important for national security reasons that Canada do everything it can to diversify trade away from the United States. During a discussion at the Council on Foreign Relations in New Y...

VANCOUVER - Author and former University of British Columbia creative writing chair Steven Galloway has concluded testifying in his defamation lawsuit trial in Vancouver. Galloway, who alleges the defendants defamed him by publishing unproven allegati...

MONTREAL - The Canadian Press is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its French-language service, which sent out its first dispatches on Sept. 30, 1951. Until then, The Canadian Press, founded in 1917, had been sending English-language dispatches to F...

CALGARY - Three people died Thursday when a transit bus set off a chain-reaction crash on a busy Calgary road and rear-ended another bus to ignite an explosion Officials said the three killed were on one of the buses, and more than a dozen others were ...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia Conservatives have dumped a teenage candidate in the provincial election after he was accused of posting "offensive" remarks online about the Holocaust and Hitler. The party said Thursday that Jordan McIntosh was no long...

OTTAWA - Environment and Climate Change Canada warned National Defence earlier this year that the CFB Kingston base had broken federal environmental regulations by failing to test air conditioners for refrigerant leaks. After inspecting a building on t...

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Las Vegas authorities have identified a homicide victim whose remains were found in a rusted barrel on a Lake Mead shore after the lake's level was depleted amid drought, officials announced Thursday. Clark County Coroner...

A 16-year-old opened fire at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday, killing three children and a teacher before he was shot by a person at the scene who pursued him into the school, authorities said. Authorities found the susp...

WASHINGTON (AP) - FBI employees fired for their roles in the investigation of President Donald Trump's retention of classified documents at his Florida estate sued on Thursday to get their jobs back, calling their terminations unlawful acts of "politic...