Two Alberta teams will celebrate small town baseball heritage this season.The Western Canadian Baseball League (WCBL) has announced that the Lethbridge Bulls and Sylvan Lake Gulls will compete in its first-ever Rural Roots game on June 8, 2025 in Oyen.The league says the special contest marks the 30th anniversary of th...

A new traffic project in Lethbridge aims to improve the safety of pedestrians.The Lethbridge Police Service (LPS) and the Alberta Sheriffs are teaming up to to provide education to pedestrians, especially students and their guardians, regarding safe crossing practices. LPS says there has been a recent increase in issue...

The Government of Alberta says improving numbers in Lethbridge are proof that its model of recovery-oriented care is working for people suffering from addiction.The province's substance use surveillance system report shows that drug overdose deaths fell by 63 per cent between January to October 2024 compared to the sam...

Southern Albertans can learn more about the proposed provincial budget at a pair of town hall meetings.The Government of Alberta is hosting the meetings to give residents details about aspects of Budget 2025 and have their questions answered.The first will be on the topic of "Investing in education" and focus...

The Alberta government is increasing financial support for foster and kinship caregivers to ease cost-of-living pressures and provide stability for children and youth in care.As part of Budget 2025, if passed, the province has allocated $3.1 million to raise caregiver rates by two per cent, helping cover day-to-day exp...

The Government of Alberta is alerting the public of a measles outbreak in the northern part of the province in an effort to halt further spread of the disease.As of March 13, health officials have confirmed six cases in the province but were all a part of the same household. Despite that, it raises concerns about the p...

Premier Danielle Smith says new prime minister Mark Carney should immediately call a general election as she argued his cabinet remains as hostile to Alberta as the one assembled by his predecessor. "I am extremely concerned that this cabinet includes most of same ministers responsible for the most damaging govern...

The Government of Alberta has announced it will now collect bitumen royalties in-kind (BRIK) in addition to conventional royalties in-kind (CORIK) in an effort to maximize resource revenue. The Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission (APMC), the province's commercial oil and gas agency, can now combine conventional and ...

Two Alberta teams will celebrate small town baseball heritage this season.The Western Canadian Baseball League (WCBL) has announced that the Lethbridge Bulls and Sylvan Lake Gulls will compete in its first-ever Rural Roots game on June 8, 2025 in Oyen.The league says the special contest marks the 30th anniversary of th...

The Lethbridge Sport Council has announced the recipients of the 2024 Lethbridge Sport Council Achievement Awards, celebrating contributions to local sports. Now in its 15th year, the awards recognize athletes, coaches, volunteers, and organizations that have made a lasting impact on the community.Executive Director of...

The Lethbridge Hurricanes secured home-ice advantage in the first round of the WHL Playoffs with a 5-3 victory over the Prince Albert Raiders on Wednesday night at the VisitLethbridge.com Arena. Kooper Gizowski scored twice, including the game-winner in the final seconds, as the Hurricanes extended their point streak t...

Four young southern Albertans are getting some help on their way to their bright careers in agriculture.The Rotary Club of Lethbridge East has announced the winners of its Agricultural Scholarships, given out annually to the region's top students who are pursuing a post-secondary education in agriculture.Damon BectellB...

A multi-million dollar grant will help an agri-food processor in Lethbridge to continue to innovate in plant-based protein markets.Results Driven Agriculture Research (RDAR) has announced $2.3 million in funding for PIP Lethbridge Inc. PIP opened in the city in 2022 and both produces and researches yellow pea-based pro...

Federal, provincial and territorial agriculture ministers says they will continue with a Team Canada approach in dealing with US tariffs. The ministers met in Ottawa on Thursday as part of what a release from the federal agriculture department calls "ongoing discussions related to the impacts and potential respons...

TORONTO - The Canadian Press/La Presse Canadienne is nominated for four National Newspaper Awards, including one for a photo of people giving former prime minister Justin Trudeau the finger while posing for a selfie. CP freelance photographer David Lipnowski is nominated in the feature photo category for his shot of a ...

The annual rate of inflation accelerated sharply to 2.6 per cent in February as the federal government's temporary tax break came to an end mid-month, Statistics Canada said Tuesday.That marks a sizeable jump from the 1.9 per cent increase seen in January, when Canadians saw GST and HST taken off a variety of household...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Carney, defence minister and military chief in Iqaluit for sovereignty announcement Prime Minister Mark Carney will be in Iqaluit today in a bid to reassert Canada's sovereignty in the Arctic. Carney is expected to make an announc...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's Liberal party is scheduled to table its first budget today since winning the October election. The budget comes as Canada is in a trade war with the United States, and Premier Susan Holt has said the economic uncertainty has made balancing the budget an "exceptionally difficult" ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney will be in Iqaluit today in a bid to reassert Canada's sovereignty in the Arctic. Carney is expected to make an announcement on strengthening security along with Defence Minister Bill Blair and Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Jennie Carignan. He is also set to meet with Nunavut Premier P...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada is set to release inflation figures for February today. Most economists expect inflation picked up as the federal government's temporary tax break on a number of household staples came to an end in February. The two-month GST holiday cooled prices in December and January, but inflation is for...

WASHINGTON (AP) - In an extraordinary display of conflict between the executive and judiciary branches, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts rejected calls for impeaching federal judges shortly after President Donald Trump demanded the removal of a judge who ruled against his deportation plans. "For more than ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House says President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have begun a highly anticipated call as the U.S. administration looks to persuade the Russian leader to sign-off on a 30-day ceasefire proposal as a possible pathway to end the war. Tuesday's call comes after Ukrainian of...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - Hungarian lawmakers on Tuesday passed a law banning Pride events and allowing authorities to use facial recognition software to identify attendees, continuing a crackdown by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right-wing populist party on the country's LBGTQ+ community. The measure passed in a...