Work crews around the region are trying to get as many projects, as possible, finished before the first snow flies. That includes Lethbridge County with a number of road surfacing projects, starting today on 'old' Highway 23 between Highway 519 and Township Road 104. Other work is also expected to get going, weather pe...

A southern Alberta couple is being recognized for their generous contribution to the Chinook Hospital Foundation's Bringing Hearts Home fundraiser. Ian McGillivray and Renee Pahara recently donated just over $100,400 through the transfer of securities acquisitions. Ian saying they chose to make their gift because it al...

Rallies are planned for Tuesday in seven Alberta cities, and more across the country, lobbying against a piece of Alberta healthcare legislation.The protests, being led in our province by Friends of Medicare is over Bill 11, which the group believes will lead to a two-tiered, American-style system.With the legislation ...

Close to 18,000 elementary and high school students returned to class Tuesday morning in Greater Lethbridge for the new school year, and many will be walking. With that in mind, Lethbridge Police and the AMA are reminding you and I to pay extra special attention with the increased pedestrian traffic. Being the first da...

The Government of Alberta is launching a new licence plate to promote conservation, it announced Monday.Sales of the licence plate will be directed to the Alberta Conservation Association (ACA)."Alberta's wildlife and wild places are a source of pride for people across our province. This licence plate gives Albert...

Food Banks Alberta says their warehouse is critically low and is calling for corporate food donors and financial supporters to help restock the shelves.The warehouse supplies 112 member food banks across the province and said they got to this point because they shipped product out to their members faster than donations...

Alberta separatists converged outside the legislature in Edmonton on Saturday afternoon ahead of the province's birthday, with many praying, listening to sermons and saying Alberta would be better off without Canada after having joined Confederation 121 years ago."It's the corruption, the lies from out east. I'm j...

Premier Danielle Smith is set to speak in Calgary Sunday at an event marking Alberta Day.Alberta officially became a Canadian province on Sept. 1, 1905.Various festivities are planned this weekend ahead of the province's birthday on Tuesday.Smith's speech at Calgary's Heritage Park is set to come as the province's sepa...

The Lethbridge Hurricanes Prospects training camp gets underway Thursday at the VisitLethbridge.com Arena.35 players - 19 forwards, 11 defencemen, and five goalies will be split up into two squads to be evaluated over the course of two days.Main camp will began on Saturday with 33 players including goaltender Leif Oate...

The Lethbridge Hurricanes Hockey Club has announced its annual season ticket pick up events for the 2026-2027 season. Officials say the Hurricanes will hold their Premium Member Pick Up on Thursday, Sept. 3, from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. Details for the Premium Member Pick Up will be distributed directly to Premium Ti...

A southern Alberta basketball player was part of Canada's Senior Women's National Team that beat Mexico 83-53 in Guadalajara on Sunday, Aug. 23, to win the FIBA Women's Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournament 2026.Delaney Gibb, from Raymond, was instrumental in the match, along with Yvonne Ejim of Calgary. Officials from the...

The Alberta government says it's restoring private property rights by removing Water Act approval requirements.Right now, producers say they're facing unnecessary barriers when it comes to how they manage water on their own cropland.That can include everything from pooling water to having a seasonal wetland on their pr...

The Canadian Grain Commission is updating grading procedures for amber durum, wheat and lentils for the 2026-27 crop year, which begins August 1.In a release Wednesday, the CGC said the revisions will include updated procedures, definitions, and photo reference material. New grading factors will include: darkened and s...

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...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Some missing tourists make contact as Nepal flood death toll tops 1,100 Some tourists previously reported missing in Nepal have made contact with authorities, off...

Neeral Patel sent well-wishes to her cousin on his birthday last Wednesday, but she never heard back. Her cousin Ishan Patel was in Nepal at the time, not far from the border with China, where a devastating flash flood ripped through the valley that sa...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada is set to make its sixth interest rate decision of the year this morning. Most economists and financial markets favour another rate hold from the central bank today. The Bank of Canada has held its policy rate steady at 2.25...

British Columbia legislator Ian Paton said RCMP have asked to interview him on Wednesday, and expects them to ask about allegedly being offered a job to give up his seat so Conservative Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay could run. Paton, who quit the Conserva...

Errors including botched currency conversions led the British Columbia government to overstate its forecasted natural gas revenues by about $1.46 billion over five fiscal years, officials confirmed on Tuesday. Energy Minister Adrian Dix said the most s...

MONTREAL - A former Montreal priest who was found guilty in 2019 of sexually abusing two boys is facing charges of possessing and accessing child sexual abuse material. Brian Boucher's lawyer appeared in a Montreal courtroom today on his behalf, and th...

BUNIA, Congo (AP) - Congo's Ebola outbreak has killed more than 3,000 people out of over 6,100 confirmed cases, the latest government data showed Wednesday, as the disease is spreading at an unprecedented speed, faster than efforts to track and slow it...

HONG KONG (AP) - Prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security under a Beijing-imposed law that has effectively stifled the city's once-thrivin...

LAEM CHABANG, Thailand (AP) - The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier docked at a port in eastern Thailand on Wednesday after its grueling deployment in the Middle East. Associated Press journalists watched the Lincoln, which is carrying...