A 72-year-old man from the Bridge City has died following a two-vehicle collision in Lethbridge County Tuesday evening.RCMP in Coaldale say they responded a crash between Volkswagen Jetta and Mitsubishi Outlander just after 8:00.Mounties say the man was pronounced deceased on scene.Two occupants in the Outlander were i...

A well-loved Indigenous author was in the Bridge City on Tuesday for a tour of elementary schools and a book signing.Dr. Jennifer Leason is a recent winner of the Richard Allen Chase Memorial Award, named after a former teacher and librarian from Lethbridge.Her latest work, Hummingbird, written in honour of her mother,...

It certainly was not the start the Lethbridge Bulls were hoping for, as they opened a six-game road trip in Sylvan Lake last night.The Gulls managed to score four runs in the bottom of the second on their way to a 6-1 win over the Bulls.Caeden Willaert, who pitched 49 strikes on 83 balls over five innings, took the los...

Tourism Lethbridge is marking a milestone, of sorts - the first anniversary of its Explore Lethbridge app. Created to help people experience the city in a more engaging way, the group says the software has become an important tool to showcase local business and attractions.To celebrate, Tourism Lethbridge says it's hol...

The Government of Alberta says they received Alberta musician Corb Lund's "Water Not Coal" citizen initiative petition and signature sheets.His petition, which needed to reach the threshold of 178,000 signatures, opposes coal mining in Alberta's eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.As a result, Elections Alb...

The RCMP's Federal Policing Northwest Region are asking parents to be more vigilant with their children's online behaviour, following a rise in violent online groups across the country.The Northwest Region's (NWR) Superintendent, Officer Matt Johnson, says "gone are the days when risk existed only in one physical ...

Alberta's minister of hospitals says she has put an end to a contentious rebranding of the province's paramedic service provider. Acute Care Alberta announced last month that Emergency Health Services Alberta would be changing its name to ALTA Paramedic Health. The rebranding would see ambulances across the province be...

For the first time since October there are no active recall petitions looking to oust Alberta politicians from their seats in the legislature. Elections Alberta says the two outstanding petitions, targeting an Opposition NDP member and a former United Conservative cabinet minister, have come to an end. The agency says ...

It certainly was not the start the Lethbridge Bulls were hoping for, as they opened a six-game road trip in Sylvan Lake last night.The Gulls managed to score four runs in the bottom of the second on their way to a 6-1 win over the Bulls.Caeden Willaert, who pitched 49 strikes on 83 balls over five innings, took the los...

The Lethbridge Bulls begin a six-game-in-six-day road trip, starting this evening in Sylvan Lake.The Toros will then move on to Fort Mac to play tomorrow through Saturday night, before a stop a stop in Edmonton against Energy City Sunday.The Bulls are 6-and-2 through their first eight games - their .750 winning percent...

The Sylvan Lake Gulls managed to snap a three-game losing skid Sunday afternoon, but in the process ended the Lethbridge Bulls' four-game win streak.Scoring nine runs in the top of the 3rd, the Gulls would go on to beat the Toros 16-0, in game that would see the home side commit five errors.Sylvan Lake's three runs in ...

Culvert replacement work this week will result in one-day road closures in Lethbridge County and, in each case, between the hours of 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. Tuesday, crews will shut down Range Road 24-2 between Township Road 11-4 and 12-0 . On Wednesday, it'll be Township Road 12-2 between Range roads 24-3 and 24-4.Thursday ...

It appears producers in Southern Alberta were able to get most, if not all, of their seedings finished ahead of our recent five-day rainstorm.The first weekly crop report of June from Alberta Agriculture shows a 100 percent completion rate for durum, mustard, flax, potatoes, chickpeas, lentils, and corn, and only a fra...

New traceability requirements for beef cattle proposed by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency have been shelved. The move followed a large influx of industry opposition with producers calling the new rules too burdensome. Heather Brown, the CFIA's national manager of humane transport and livestock traceability programs...

OTTAWA - Canada's secretary of state for sport has dismissed concerns about the cost of co-hosting the FIFA World Cup and is hyping up the opportunity for Canadians to engage with the tournament across the country. Adam van Koeverden, a former Olympian...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Most crime guns traced by RCMP came from within Canada, internal reports say Internal RCMP reports say the vast majority of crime guns traced by the Mounties to i...

TORONTO - As people from around the world arrive in Toronto and festivities marking the beginning of the FIFA World Cup get underway, health-care workers want to assure visitors and residents that there are key measures in place to help keep them safe....

VANCOUVER - Wherever they are in the world, sports fans Lachlan Carter and younger brother Bailey know how to find fellow Australians. "We hear the accent, they hear the accent, and then, you know, it goes off pretty quickly, like a house on fire," sai...

OTTAWA - The vast majority of crime guns traced by the RCMP to identifiable sources in 2023 and 2024 came from within Canada and were not smuggled from abroad, say internal reports prepared by the national police force. The analyses found almost all of...

OTTAWA - The federal privacy commissioner will today release the results of his investigation of sexual deepfakes created by Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot. Philippe Dufresne launched an investigation in January to examine the proliferation of sexualized ...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - The first group of Nigerians returned home from South Africa on Thursday as part of repatriation ordered by the government following violent anti-immigration protests. A total of 262 passengers and three officials w...

U.S. prosecutors said Wednesday they will not seek the death penalty as part of a plea agreement with the man charged in the political assassinations of the top Democrat in the Minnesota House along with her husband, as well as the attempted murders of...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - U.S. prosecutors said Wednesday they will not seek the death penalty as part of a plea agreement with the man accused of killing the top Democrat in the Minnesota House along with her husband, as well as wounding a state senator and ...