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Lethbridge and Area

Help clean up the city at the Great Lethbridge Buttpick
It's not what you think.The Helen Schuler Nature Centre has launched its humourously-named campaign, The Great Lethbridge Buttpick.Throughout July, residents are encouraged to help clean up cigarette butts.Chelsea Sherbut, Resource Development Coordinator, says, even if you do not smoke or litter, cigarette butts are e...
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GOLF COURSE BRAWL
Former Lethbridge Hurricanes player involved in viral golf course brawl
Former pro hockey player Nick Tarnasky, appears to find himself at the centre of a viral social media video after an incident at a central Alberta golf course.The 40-year old originally from Rocky Mountain House played a season and a half with the WHL's Lethbridge Hurricanes from 2002-2004.He is the current head coach ...
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10 from Lethbridge to compete at Tae Kwon-Do World Championships
A group of local taekwondo-ins are setting out to prove that they are the best in the world.Legacy Tae Kwon Do in Lethbridge has announced that it will be sending 10 of its athletes to the TKDI World Cup in Glasgow, Scotland, on July 18-20, 2025.The local competing athletes are:Rylan GibsonNick AllisonAmanda FoxTaylor ...
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update: one person dead
One killed in collision in Lethbridge
UPDATE (9:40 a.m. Wednesday): The Lethbridge Police Service (LPS) says a collision Tuesday evening was fatal.At 4:52 p.m. on Tuesday, July 8, 2025, officers were called to the intersection of Highway 3 and 30 Street North.They say a motorcycle and a pick-up truck collided.A 62-year-old from Lethbridge, who was the lone...
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Alberta

Alberta has highest measles cases per capita in North America as summer travel gets underway
Alberta has the most measles cases in North America on a per-capita basis, worrying experts who say summer events could push case counts even higher.The province's former chief medical officer of health, Dr. Mark Joffe says that's twice the rate of confirmed cases in Ontario.Ontario has been deemed Canada's epicentre o...
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Health
Alberta has highest measles cases per capita in North America as summer travel gets underway
Alberta has the most measles cases in North America on a per-capita basis, worrying experts who say summer events could push case counts even higher.The province's former chief medical officers of health Dr. Mark Joffe says that's twice the rate of confirmed cases in Ontario.Ontario has been deemed Canada's epicentre o...
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On the midway grounds
Three people seriously hurt after targeted assault at Calgary Stampede; Police
Calgary police say they are investigating after three people were seriously hurt in an assault at the Calgary Stampede.Police say they responded to reports of an assault just after 11 p.m. Tuesday near the Euroslide on the Stampede's midway.They say they found a severely injured man who was transported to hospital in l...
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Promoting Local
Alberta government offering its own museum freebies as part of Canada Strong pass
Alberta's government is jumping on board a federal initiative aimed at saving Canadians a buck if they stay close to home this summer.The province says it's offering its own free and discounted admissions as part of the Canada Strong Pass program, introduced by the federal government last month.First promised as a way ...
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Canada

Ottawa's national security review, shutdown order 'procedurally unfair': Hikvision
OTTAWA - A Chinese maker of surveillance camera systems says the national security review process that led the federal government to order it to shut down its Canadian operations was unfair. Hikvision makes the arguments in a court filing challenging a June 27 directive from the federal government to close down its bus...
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Wisconsin and Minnesota Republicans call on Canada to curb wildfire smoke
WASHINGTON - Six Republican lawmakers have sent a letter to Canada's ambassador calling for action on wildfires they say have sent smoke billowing across the international border into their states. In a Tuesday letter to Ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman, Reps. Tom Tiffany, Brad Finstad, Tom Emmer, Michelle Fischb...
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Texas flood to create safety planning 'ripple effect' at Canadian camps: organizers
EDMONTON - Canadian summer camp organizers say they expect a ripple effect of bolstered emergency plans and preparations this summer after more than two dozen campers and camp counsellors were killed by severe flash floods in Texas on Friday. "I would be shocked if there aren't a lot of people that are looking at ...
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Armed forces needs to strengthen screening to weed out extremists: expert
OTTAWA - An expert in extremism says recent arrests linked to an alleged plot to create an anti-government militia show the Canadian Armed Forces needs to do a better job of vetting at the recruitment stage. University of Alberta political science professor Andy Knight says the fact that two of the four men charged Tue...
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The Conservative party raised a record amount in 2024 - and spent even more
OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives raised a record amount of money in 2024 and ramped up their spending in a major way ahead of the federal election, according to records filed with Elections Canada. The Tories brought in $42 million in donations and another $5 million in membership fees last year. They also spent just...
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Defence expected to find operational savings even as budget balloons: Ottawa
OTTAWA - Ottawa is expecting national defence to find places to cut its day-to-day spending even as the department's overall budget balloons in the coming years. Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne sent letters to ministers on Monday asking them to find savings of 7.5 per cent in their budgets starting ...
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