Lethbridge Hurricanes forward Logan Stuart has been named the latest WHL Rookie of the Week for the week ending Sunday, Nov. 1.It's the second-such time this season the 18-year-old Californian has earned the honour.Stuart logged two points and two assists in games against the Regina Pats and Brandon Wheat Kings.One of ...

A 21-year-old Lethbridge-born hockey player is leaving the bright lights of Music City for the Pacific Northwest, following a trade made public Monday. Nashville Predators forward Matthew Wood is off to the Seattle Kraken, while the Preds receive 22-year-old right-winger Shane Wright in return. Wood, drafted 15th overa...

Beginning Tuesday, green cart collection in the City of Lethbridge will be once every two weeks, until the warmer weather returns. In the Spring and Summer, of course, it's every week, based on higher volumes of yard waste and keeping the smell in check. A glitch with the Waste Wizard and Lethbridge Loop app yesterday,...

The MLA for Lethbridge West has taken aim at proposed legislation that would see dramatic changes to his and the city's other provincial riding. Rob Miyashiro, standing up in the Legislature on Monday, is against any proposal that would see the Bridge City divided up into four electoral divisions."Last week, the m...

Alberta has introduced legislation to restrict post-secondary schools from being able to publicly weigh in on social and political issues. Advanced Education Minister Myles McDougall says schools could still make official expressions of sympathy, and that the bill, should it pass, would not restrict the rights of staff...

The Alberta Junior Hockey League released a statement on Monday, Nov. 2, regarding the arrest of a prominent junior hockey figure, Tyler King. "The Alberta Junior Hockey League is extremely grateful to the RCMP for their diligence in this investigation over the past two years. The dignity, privacy, and well-being ...

Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) advisories have been lifted across Alberta, according to Alberta Health Services.Recent weather has cooled lake and reservoir water temperatures to such an extent that cyanobacteria and water quality, including fecal bacteria levels, present a low health risk for usage of the lake for r...

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 ...

Lethbridge Hurricanes forward Logan Stuart has been named the latest WHL Rookie of the Week for the week ending Sunday, Nov. 1.It's the second-such time this season the 18-year-old Californian has earned the honour.Stuart logged two points and two assists in games against the Regina Pats and Brandon Wheat Kings.One of ...

A 21-year-old Lethbridge-born hockey player is leaving the bright lights of Music City for the Pacific Northwest, following a trade made public Monday. Nashville Predators forward Matthew Wood is off to the Seattle Kraken, while the Preds receive 22-year-old right-winger Shane Wright in return. Wood, drafted 15th overa...

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 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...

ST JOHN'S - Prime Minister Mark Carney says "more intense" trade negotiations with the United States have started since his call with President Donald Trump last weekend. "We've made progress but we haven't finished," Carney told reporters Tuesday in S...

Prime Minister Mark Carney says Russia will not be allowed to compete at next month's world junior hockey championship in Alberta. Carney, speaking in Antigua at the Commonwealth Summit, said Russian and Belarusian athletes will not be permitted to rep...

VANCOUVER - A University of British Columbia professor has testified about a colleague's decision to call police to visit Steven Galloway after he was accused of sexual assault, describing it as an "act of care" toward the author, who had spoken of kil...

VICTORIA - The Conservative Party of B.C. raised almost three times the donations as the New Democrats during the third quarter of 2026, despite experiencing internal turmoil at the time. This fundraising figure for the party of premier-designate Lorn...

OTTAWA - Canada's chief electoral officer is raising concerns about the rising influence of AI on the democratic process. Stéphane Perrault says voters are now more likely to use AI agents than Elections Canada's official website to get names of politi...

OTTAWA - The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations says the only leaders to discuss abolishing the Indian Act during a landmark meeting last week were Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew and Prime Minister Mark Carney. Carney said after the meeting th...

Republican Pete Ricketts won election Wednesday to the U.S. Senate representing Nebraska, defeating independent candidate Dan Osborn. Ricketts will now serve his first full six-year term, following his 2023 appointment to replace Republican Sen. Ben Sa...

Democrat Katie Hobbs won election Wednesday as governor of Arizona, defeating Republican Andy Biggs, Republican Gertritrude Gonzalez (write-in) and Republican Alice Novoa (write-in). Hobbs won despite being viewed as the most vulnerable Democratic gove...

Republican Kurt Alme won election Wednesday to the U.S. Senate representing Montana, defeating independent Seth Bodnar and Democrat Alani Bankhead. Alme will replace Republican Sen. Steve Daines, who made a surprise announcement in March, just ahead of...