An Illinois judge says a class-action lawsuit alleging two Canadian companies participated in a frozen potato price-fixing scheme in the U.S. can continue. New Brunswick's McCain Foods Limited and J.D. Irving-owned Cavendish Farms, which has an operation in Lethbridge County, were among five defendants seeking the case...

Police in Lethbridge are looking for the driver responsible in an apparent hit and run collision.Authorities believe it happened earlier this month, sometime after Oct. 11, and involved damage to a concrete fence."From the debris left behind, the offending vehicle is determined to be a 2006-2009 white BMW 3 Series...

The city's business community gathered at the Coast Lethbridge Hotel & Conference Centre on October 22 to celebrate the 2026 Lethbridge Business Awards, hosted by The Lethbridge Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber was honoured to host an inspiring group of businesses, entrepreneurs and organizations that make our city...

Southern Albertans living with chronic pain can learn strategies to manage their symptoms and improve their quality of life through an upcoming virtual workshop series.The Better Choices, Better Health program runs from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. every Wednesday from Oct. 28 to Dec. 9, with no session scheduled for Remembrance D...

The Government of Alberta has expanded hospital capacity ahead of respiratory virus season.More specifically, the province has added over 9,000 acute care spaces and introduced a new triage program to prepare for an increase in demand.The province explained there are now over 221 hospital spaces open across the provinc...

An Illinois judge says a class-action lawsuit alleging two Canadian companies participated in a frozen potato price-fixing scheme in the U.S. can continue. New Brunswick's McCain Foods Limited and J.D. Irving-owned Cavendish Farms, which has an operation in Lethbridge County, were among five defendants seeking the case...

The province is providing $2.5 million to support those affected by gender-based violence.The funding will support 36 community organizations across the province "to end gender based violence," with 14 in Calgary, seven in Edmonton, four in southern Alberta, seven in central Alberta and four in northern Alber...

New regulations governing which flags can be displayed at Alberta schools will take effect Jan. 4, 2027, requiring school authorities to follow provincial rules on flag displays.The Flag Display Regulation builds on changes introduced through the province's An Act to Remove Politics and Ideology from Classrooms.Under t...

The Coaldale Copperheads will look to improve their record to five and three, on the season, when they play host to the Wheatland Kings Saturday night at the 'Snake Pit'. Through seven games, forward Kobe Fujita leads the Heritage Junior Hockey League club in goals with six and nine total points.Goaltender Brylin Noble...

The Lethbridge Polytechnic Kodiaks women's and men's soccer teams picked up road victories over the Olds College Broncos on Saturday, while men's volleyball bounced back from a five-set loss to the SAIT Trojans with a win on Sunday. The weekend also marked the start of Alberta Colleges Athletics Conference (ACAC) regul...

A historic first for two southern Alberta hockey teams on Saturday at the Blood Tribe Twin Rinks in Stand Off.The Mad Hatters from Medicine Hat and the Lethbridge Chinook Riders faced off in each team's first-ever game.Both teams are playing in the first season of the Alberta Senior Women's Hockey League, a division of...

The Insurance Bureau of Canada is reporting an estimated $1.8 billion in losses caused by storms this year across the Prairies.There were ten major events across Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, with estimates coming from Catastrophe Indices and Quantification Inc."Once again, the Canadian Prairies have been hi...

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...

OTTAWA - First Nations leaders are meeting today with Prime Minister Mark Carney and some of the country's premiers in what Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak is calling a historic occasion. The meeting comes as Prime Mini...

OTTAWA - The British government has turned down Ottawa's attempts to have it join the international Defence, Security and Resilience Bank, though London says it will work in lockstep with Canada to meet NATO spending targets. The DSRB is meant to reduc...

EDMONTON - Family, friends and Armed Forces members filled the pews of an Edmonton funeral home on Sunday as one of the soldiers killed in the devastating Canadian Forces Base Wainwright fire was laid to rest. All rose as Sgt. Morgan Wong's casket was ...

VANCOUVER - Voters gave Lorne Doerkson's B.C. Conservatives a two-thirds majority government on Saturday, now members of his party need to do the same to change their constitution to allow an interim leader to become permanent. 
 The party's constituti...

OTTAWA - Canada has received its first pair of new F-35 fighter jets, with Ottawa still deliberating how many of the American planes it will buy. The Royal Canadian Air Force announced Friday on social media that it received the two Lockheed Martin jet...

RIGA - It takes an average of just six weeks for opposing forces to develop a countermeasure to new technology deployed on the battlefield in Ukraine. That rapid pace of innovation, driven by drones and robotics, is forcing NATO and its member countrie...

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Jordanian security forces arrested three men Monday for an attack on a Greek Orthodox Church that killed nine people and wounded more than two dozen. The Public Security Directorate said the three suspects were arres...

PORT HURON, Mich. (AP) - President Donald Trump intensified his anti-Muslim rhetoric against Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed on Sunday, portraying him as a threat to national security and questioning his loyalty to the United States in remarks...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Opposition leader and Nobel laureate María Corina Machado reappeared in Venezuela Sunday for the first time since December, returning from exile at a time when doubts about the country's democratic future - and the role of the...