A southern Alberta girls' football coach is facing a sentencing hearing for creating artificially generated sexualized images of some of his players. A Crown prosecutor told a judge in Lethbridge today that Justin Tillery should spend two years in prison. Tillery's lawyer says a community sentence would suffice. Tiller...

The City of Lethbridge says it has started legal proceedings in relation to advice given during the funding and development of the Agri-food Hub & Trade Centre (now Lethbridge Trade & Convention Centre). Officials say this step has been taken to protect the financial interests of Lethbridge residents and the mu...

As you're likely well aware, all of western Canada has decided not to go back to Standard time this weekend, including us, here in Alberta. While agreeing it's a good thing, a University of Lethbridge professor feels we should have waited until the Spring to make things permanent. In short, Dr. Robert McDonald with th...

It's an annual tradition that's carried out across the country every year ahead of Remembrance Day - the cleaning of memorial headstones of the fallen. On Friday morning, close to two dozen members of the 20th Independent Field Battalion from Lethbridge were on hand at the Mountain View cemetery.Honourary Lieutenant-C...

The same day one separatist leader was given the boot from the United Conservative Party, another faction of Alberta's separatist movement has taken a hit.Cameron Davies has announced he is resigning as leader of the Republican Party of Alberta.And as noted, it was earlier Friday when Premier Danielle Smith shared that...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government is reducing education property taxes starting next year after it brought in successive hikes for ratepayers. It means home and farmland owners will pay almost seven per cent less than this year while non-residential property owners will pay almost five per cent less. S...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says a high-profile separatist leader has been kicked out of her United Conservative Party. Smith told reporters in Calgary that the party's executive director made the decision to revoke Jeff Rath's membership over code of conduct issues, and it's a decision she supports. Rath has been a...

Just ignore the advice of Huey Lewis and the News, because Alberta does not, in fact, 'gotta get back in time' this weekend.Sunday, Nov. 1 would've been the day that Alberta falls back an hour, but that's not happening.The province will remain on the new time zone known as ABT, or Alberta Time.In a release, the UCP say...

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 Lethbridge Polytechnic Kodiaks teams dominated on the court this past weekend with a four-game basketball sweep and a volleyball split, while the soccer teams wrapped up their Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference regular season on the road.BasketballOct. 23 WBB | Kodiaks 74 vs Wolves 43The Kodiaks women's basketbal...

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...

The federal government has announced more than $3 million for new trades programs at Lethbridge Polytechnic to grow the agri-food sector. It says the money will help the post-secondary institution launch new training that will address the shortage in skilled labour in the ag industry. Prairies Economic Development mini...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney has laid out a timeline that would see Canada sign an agreement on a new partnership with the European Union in the next seven months, if all goes well. Carney said Friday that Ottawa and Brussels are working toward ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney has delayed tougher new emissions standards for passenger vehicles until 2029, just eight months after the government said it wanted them to take effect in 2027. Experts say the move will buy Ottawa time to see how U...

DETROIT - Democrats are hoping Tuesday's midterm elections will give them the power to rein in U.S. President Donald Trump - but Canadians hoping for an outcome that stabilizes the rocky bilateral relationship may be disappointed. Once-safe Republican ...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Russia should not have attended a G20 meeting the U.S. hosted on Friday, but she still used the opportunity to make a point to Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. "I was sitting at a table directly across ...

OTTAWA - Canada's new partnership with the European Union is meant to provide benefits to people on both continents. The two jurisdictions wrapped up a summit in Montreal on Friday with various agreements, many of which will take months or years to fin...

VANCOUVER - Zoe Grames-Webb has told Canada's first youth-led climate trial she still remembers the "completely grey wall of smoke" she woke up to in 2017 while staying at a cabin on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast. The wildfire smoke was so thick, i...

A shooting on Friday night at a mall in Fairfield has left one person dead and six wounded, California police said. Police said they responded to a shooting at around 8:30 p.m. inside Solano Town Center at the Spirit Halloween store. The...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - The U.S. Department of Justice pushed Friday for a court order to isolate certain Alaska ballots to investigate potential voter confusion, while federal officials confirmed the existence of a criminal probe over a Senate candid...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A federal appeals court on Friday rejected the Justice Department's request for California to set aside disputed ballots received in the midterm election, and hours later another federal judge barred the department from intimidating ...