Two members of a southern Alberta organization are receiving national acclaim for their event planning work with Excite Lethbridge. Kaira Cale and Kathleen Boniol have both earned Top 10 Under 40 honours by the Canadian Association of Fairs and Exhibitions.Event Development director Paul Kingsmith said the pair have le...

A Lethbridge family is turning a tragic event that took place four years ago, into a positive, in memory of their daughter.Bekah Olsen and her husband, Jim, lost their daughter, Annie, in her sleep, at just three-and-a-half months old.Next Friday, June 19th, the family is holding an event they're billing Celebration fo...

The Lethbridge Bulls have climbed back into a first-place tie with the Okotoks Dawgs after a 7-2 victory over Fort McMurray in WCBL play Thursday night. For the second time in two nights, the Toros scored three runs in the third inning, before adding another three in the ninth to put a cap on the win. The Bulls and Daw...

Advance pricing to this year's Whoop-Up Days and Lethbridge & District Pro Rodeo is underway, and you can do it either in person or online. Whoop-Up Days tickets and West Coast Amusements ride wristbands can be bought at all Lethbridge and area Gas King locations. General admission tickets, meanwhile, can be purcha...

A new treatment for the rare disease known as pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is now available in Alberta.The provincial government shared Friday that patients will now be covered through the Specialized High Cost Drug Program for the drug Sotatercept.According to a release, pulmonary arterial hypertension is a r...

A report by the University of Calgary will inform voters on the financial cost of Alberta leaving Canada.The Government of Alberta announced Friday it has hired the institution's School of Public Policy to conduct an analysis that will provide a better understanding of estimated transition costs, economic effects, pote...

ATB Financial says that "Alberta's economy continues to weather the geopolitical storm better than most." ATB is predicting that Alberta will lead the country in economic growth this year. It says in a news release that "real GDP will grow by 2.6 per cent in 2026." The prediction for economic growt...

Alberta's government has filed its appeal of a judge's decision to throw out a petition looking to force a vote on the province quitting Canada. Premier Danielle Smith criticized the ruling last month, calling it ``anti-democratic,'' and promised to appeal. Court of King's Bench Justice Shaina Leonard found the referen...

The Lethbridge Bulls have climbed back into a first-place tie with the Okotoks Dawgs after a 7-2 victory over Fort McMurray in WCBL play Thursday night. For the second time in two nights, the Toros scored three runs in the third inning, before adding another three in the ninth to put a cap on the win. The Bulls and Daw...

Lethbridge Bulls first baseman Carter Claerhout has been named the WCBL's first 2026 Alberta Player of the Week. In his first eight games, the Red Deer native had 15 hits, including three doubles, scored seven runs, and had nine RBI's for a batting average of .441 and beat out teammates Connor Crowson and Kalem Henry, ...

The Lethbridge Bulls put themselves back on the winning track Wednesday night with a convincing 11-2 decision over the Fort McMurray Giants. Kalem Haney and Bernie Socarras went 2-for-5 at the plate, and both with a walk; Haney, though, added a home run to one of his 'at bats.'The Bulls had to rally to win this one - ...

Culvert replacement work this week will result in one-day road closures in Lethbridge County and, in each case, between the hours of 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. Tuesday, crews will shut down Range Road 24-2 between Township Road 11-4 and 12-0 . On Wednesday, it'll be Township Road 12-2 between Range roads 24-3 and 24-4.Thursday ...

It appears producers in Southern Alberta were able to get most, if not all, of their seedings finished ahead of our recent five-day rainstorm.The first weekly crop report of June from Alberta Agriculture shows a 100 percent completion rate for durum, mustard, flax, potatoes, chickpeas, lentils, and corn, and only a fra...

New traceability requirements for beef cattle proposed by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency have been shelved. The move followed a large influx of industry opposition with producers calling the new rules too burdensome. Heather Brown, the CFIA's national manager of humane transport and livestock traceability programs...

TORONTO - Two men from Germany have been arrested after police officers were assaulted at Toronto Stadium ahead of a World Cup match between Canada and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Police say they responded to an altercation in the stands on Friday afternoon. T...

OLIVER - A young bear in British Columbia's Okanagan had to endure several days with a stove pipe stuck over its head before conservation officers were able to remove it. The Conservation Officer Service of B.C. says residents in the area near Oliver f...

TORONTO - In many ways, a 1-1 draw against Bosnia-Herzegovina felt like a victory for Canada on a historic day for the host side at the FIFA World Cup on Friday. An upset loss was a real possibility for the Canadians as they couldn't convert despite m...

At watch parties on opposite sides of Toronto, soccer fans cheered in turn for Bosnia-Herzegovina and Canada as the two teams kicking off the World Cup on Canadian soil ended the game with a 1-1 tie. Deena Subramani, a fan who watched the game at the...

VICTORIA - The B.C. Supreme Court has found that the City of Victoria did not go beyond its authority by passing bylaws restricting overnight camping in some city parks. Three homeless petitioners sought to quash two bylaws passed by the city in 2024 ...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver's big moment on the World Cup stage was still a day away, but fans at the PNE Amphitheatre brought energy to spare on Friday as they watched Canada's debut match against Bosnia-Herzegovina in Toronto. And the packed amphitheatre, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said Friday that a "swift and lethal kinetic" U.S. strike has killed Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, whom he called "the infamous leader" of the Tren de Aragua gang. Tren de Aragua has been lab...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama on Friday moved to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward. The Alabama Attorney General's office asked the Alabama Supreme Court to authorize...

BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) - A flight carrying at least two dozen migrants, including an Iranian woman facing persecution in her home country, landed in the Central African Republic on Friday. It is the latest example of the Trump administra...