I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving long weekend surrounded by family, friends and food. It is always important to enjoy these occasions to celebrate the past and present while also looking towards the future.On that note, the first item I want to get into this month is the biggest proposal that came out of th...

Lethbridge Police have charged a 59-year old male with committing an indecent act following an incident at a city park. On Oct. 15 around 3 p.m., police responded to a report of an indecent act at the playground in Galt Gardens along the 600 block of 3 Avenue South. Witnesses reported that an unknown male sat on a benc...

Total student enrolment in Livingstone Range School Division has dropped by 0.7 per cent compared to the previous school year. LRSD officials say the full-time equivalent (FTE) student enrolment is 3502.80 for the 2026-2027 school year. This number, calculated annually on Sept. 30, represents 3,662 actual students. Acc...

Lethbridge Family Services (LFS) is celebrating Health Care Aide Day this weekend.On Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026, LFS will recognizes the extraordinary people who make a difference in people's lives every day. Officials say LFS Health Care Aides do more than provide essential personal care. They build trusting relationships,...

Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier Danielle Smith joined forces at a Red Deer brewery to make a last-ditch plea for Albertans to vote to stay in Canada. Carney, standing with Smith and other politicians, channelled author Charles Dickens in saying Monday's referendum comes at the best and worst of times. He says th...

Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he understands separatist disillusionment with the state of affairs in Canada but that quitting isn't the answer. Poilievre says quitting is the easy way out and Albertans are not quitters. He says the solution is to restore the greatness of a country that has been defe...

Alberta's former top election official says he has effectively lost his right to vote in the province's upcoming separation referendum, and he's pointing the finger at his successor. Glen Resler says he applied to vote by special ballot but was unable to get it back in the mail last week, when Canada Post could still g...

The silence from many Alberta business leaders on the upcoming provincial referendum comes as no surprise to one corporate leadership expert. Monday's vote includes 10 questions; one on whether Alberta should remain in Canada or move toward a binding separation referendum; five on immigration and four on constitutional...

Four Lethbridge Polytechnic Kodiaks sports are back in action this week as volleyball and basketball seasons start.BasketballKodiaks basketball teams will get their seasons underway on the road in Calgary on Friday as they take to the court against the SAIT Trojans. The women will get the action underway first at 6 p.m...

Here are the Weekly Top-10 Rankings for all five levels of high school football in Alberta for the 2026 season.These rankings will come out every Sunday (except for Labour Day kickoff) from now up until November 9.At that time, those will be the last rankings, and teams will take this rank into provincials.The 12-a-sid...

The Lethbridge Hurricanes return home from Washington State with six points in their pocket after taking all three of their games against the Tri-City Americans on Wednesday, 5-3, Spokane Chiefs, 4-2, Friday, and the Wenatchee Wildcats, 4-1, on Saturday night.For Canes goaltender, Koen Cleaver, Saturday's victory was b...

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...

It's hoped a two-day conference planned for late November will help the Lethbridge & District Cultural Society to re-shape its direction and future."Really, the Ag Society, right now, is trying to engage the community as much as we can and improve public ag literacy. Get the non-agricultural public, potentiall...

WINNIPEG - The federal government confirmed at a meeting of Canadian health ministers that it is extending a funding deal on rare disease research, while wider questions on health-care funding remain unanswered. Federal Health Minister Marjorie Michel ...

OTTAWA - The European Investment Bank has applied for an exemption from foreign bank status in Canada, a move that would bring the lending arm of the European Union one step closer to operating here. The request was published today in the Canada Gazett...

One of the ringleaders of the thwarted Toronto 18 terror plot has been granted full parole after the Parole Board of Canada found he no longer showed "any signs of holding onto extremist beliefs or radical ideologies." Zakaria Amara, who helped recruit...

OTTAWA - International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu said trade talks between Canada and India advanced over the past week as he led a major trade mission to New Delhi, Bengaluru and Mumbai. A statement from his office said the mission included represe...

British Columbians have started voting in the provincial election without the release of a costed platform from the B.C. Conservatives, whose leader says it will be announced "imminently." Interim leader Lorne Doerkson said at a Metro Vancouver campaig...

CALGARY - Police were working Friday to determine the cause of a fiery bus crash in Calgary that killed three passengers and injured 16 others, including a police officer who helped save a child. Two transit buses and several other vehicles were involv...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A fast-moving fire burned multiple homes in Southern California as hot, windy weather gripped the region Friday, prompting evacuations and power outages. TV footage on KTLA showed several homes burning in San Juan Capistrano in Ora...

ADEN, Yemen (AP) - Two missiles struck the airport in Yemen's port city of Aden on Friday night, police said, blaming Iran-backed Houthi rebels for the second such attack on the airport in less than 10 days. Police said no casualties were...

BEND, Ore. (AP) - A teacher threw her phone at the teenage gunman who killed four people at an Oregon elementary school, then tackled and fought with him - likely saving lives before he was shot by a father who followed him into the building, police sa...