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...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is defending a proposal to redraw provincial boundaries in a way the Opposition NDP says is cheating. The legislature is soon expected to debate a report that pitches diluting urban ridings in the city of Lethbridge by merging them with surrounding rural ones. Smith says so-called hybrid ...

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...

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...

VERNON - The owners of a British Columbia farm where hundreds of ostriches were killed by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency last year is suing the government and police, claiming the loss of a business with revenue it projected at $200 million. The l...

NANAIMO - A junior hockey team in British Columbia says it was not aware of sexual exploitation allegations against an executive when he was hired. In an online statement, the Nanaimo Clippers said that when the organization found out about the RCMP in...

OTTAWA - Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem told members of Parliament on Tuesday he doesn't think the federal government's fiscal policy is at odds with the central bank's efforts to control inflation. Macklem was speaking at the House of Commons fi...

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 has confirmed. This will be the second year the annual update is included in the budget documen...

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 ...

A man convicted of murder who escaped from a Tennessee prison was recaptured on Tuesday after more than a week on the run, authorities said. Jacob Morley, who was serving a life sentence for killing a co-worker four years ago, was apprehe...

Federal authorities charged an Oklahoma man with sending hundreds of letters containing nonhazardous white powder to public officials ahead of the 2024 and 2026 elections. The powders turned out to be yeast or flour, though not all letter...

SEATTLE (AP) - The Seattle Mariners have hired Chicago Cubs farm director Jason Kanzler as manager, the team said Tuesday. The 36-year-old Kanzler replaces Dan Wilson, who was fired after a disappointing 76-86 season that began with World...