A new report shows that drug overdose deaths are continuing to trend in the right direction in Lethbridge.The Government of Alberta has updated its substance use surveillance system report, which includes numbers up to the end of 2024.It says a total of 41 people died due to drug consumption in Lethbridge last year, on...

The 2025 Lethbridge & District Pickleball Tournament will only be the beginning.The event was announced on Tuesday and will take place from May 2-4 at the Agri-food Hub & Trade Centre.It will include members of the Lethbridge and Coaldale Pickleball Clubs with 12 courts in the event centre's trade halls.The tou...

The Chinook Regional Hospital Foundation (CRHF) is celebrating a trio of major donations.A group of local businesses have given a combined $350,000 to the Bringing Hearts Home Campaign. It is working towards building the new Southern Alberta Cardiac Centre of Excellence at Chinook Regional Hospital.The donations includ...

The City of Lethbridge and Lethbridge Fire and Emergency Service (LFES) is asking everyone to be mindful of crews at work.Fire investigators and restoration teams have been on-site at the 1200 block of Pacific Circle West since two homes in the Garry Station neighbourhood were destroyed in a fire on Saturday, April 12....

The United Party of Canada is looking to Aaron Patton to run in the 2025 federal election in the Bow River riding.He provided the following answers to LNN in a questionnaire:Why did you want to run in the 2025 federal election? It's my first time running for any political office. Honestly, stepping into the realm of th...

OTTAWA - Federal party leaders are campaigning in the Montreal area ahead of the two election debates that will take place Wednesday and Thursday. It will be the first time Liberal Leader Mark Carney and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre square off in a debate. This morning, Carney is scheduled to make an announceme...

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising that a government led by him would use the notwithstanding clause to override Charter rights to implement his tough-on-crime agenda, something no prime minister has ever done.Poilievre was campaigning in Montreal on Monday, where he announced he would pass a law to allo...

The UCP says its proposed Compassionate Intervention Act will deliver, and help individuals who are likely to cause harm to themselves or others.Also known as Bill 53, the act is said to build on the UCP's goals for recovery, and is part of their broader Alberta Recovery Model."For those suffering from addiction t...

Alberta is reporting three more confirmed cases of measles, including one in Calgary.Alberta Health Services says the individual in Calgary had visited nearby towns of Banff and Canmore while infectious earlier this month.The health authority is warning that residents of the two towns may have been exposed to the highl...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says hiring lawyers to funnel requests from the auditor general isn't meant to obstruct an investigation into multimillion-dollar health contracts - it's about helping get to the truth.The government has instructed Alberta Health public servants to contact a lawyer to co-ordinate if audit...

Alberta is reporting 16 more cases of measles, bringing the provincial total to 74 since the beginning of March.The government says the new cases were reported in Alberta's central and southern zones.Nearly all cases are in school-aged children, with 18 cases being reported in children under the age of five.The provinc...

The 2025 Lethbridge & District Pickleball Tournament will only be the beginning.The event was announced on Tuesday and will take place from May 2-4 at the Agri-food Hub & Trade Centre.It will include members of the Lethbridge and Coaldale Pickleball Clubs with 12 courts in the event centre's trade halls.The tou...

Games three and four of the Lethbridge Hurricanes' second-round playoff series will be contested on home ice.The Canes host the Calgary Hitmen at the VisitLethbridge.com Arena on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 15 and 15. Puck drop for both games is at 7:00 p.m.The WHL series has been going in Lethbridge's favour, winning...

A big opportunity is coming up for a trio of local racquetball players.Coby Iwaasa, Naman Guari and Makaio White have all qualified for the 2025 Racquetball Canadian National Championships, set to take place in Burlington, Ontario in May.Iwaasa will be competing in singles events, as well as doubles competition alongsi...

Agricultural producers in the Lethbridge-Medicine Hat region can rejoice - more water will be available to you this growing season.The St. Mary River Irrigation District (SMRID) set its water allocation for 2025 at 12 inches, an increase of 50 per cent from last year.SMRID board chair George Lohues says the initial all...

Registration is now open for any place that wants to be a host farm for Alberta Open Farm Days. This year's edition is set for August 16 and 17. The weekend gives people a chance to visit farms and ranches, see food production first-hand and try and buy locally produced products. The theme this year is Water, The Lifeb...

OTTAWA - The Canadian government has announced support for the country's agriculture sector as it deals with tariffs imposed by China. The federal agriculture department says in a news release that the current payment cap under AgriStability, a program that works similarly to crop insurance, will double to $6 million f...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada is set to make an interest rate decision today amid looming trade war impacts to the economy. The central bank cut its policy rate by a quarter point to 2.75 per cent at its most recent decision in March. Market bets were nearly evenly split between a rate hold and a cut heading into Wednesd...

FORT ST. JOHN - A contractor has been killed and another person hurt in a fire in a gas plant north of Fort St. John, B.C. Alberta-based Tourmaline Oil, which runs the Gundy oil and gas extraction facility in Wonowon, B.C., says the site was "immediately shut down" after the fire on Monday night. The B.C. Ene...

OTTAWA - The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed a challenge of a Liberal government ban on firearms the government considers fit only for the battlefield, not for hunting or sport shooting. The Liberals outlawed some 1,500 firearm models and variants in May 2020, meaning they could no longer be legally used, sold or...

California is calling for Canadians to come back and pay a visit. Gov. Gavin Newsom has taken to social media urging the two million Canadians who visited last year to come back and enjoy the Golden State's wine, sun and sand. Newsom, without calling out U.S. President Donald Trump by name, says Canadians should not le...

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia First Nation has filed a legal challenge over the plan to allow the Mount Polley mine to raise its tailings dam a decade after a similar storage site at the mine gave way, creating one of the province's largest environmental disasters. The Xatsull First Nation has filed a petition in B.C....

TORONTO - Four people were injured after a vehicle crashed into multiple people on a pedestrian walkway on Toronto Metropolitan University's downtown campus, police said. The vehicle did not remain at the scene of the crash Tuesday afternoon, police said. Paramedics say two people were sent to hospital, one with minor ...

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's defense minister said Wednesday that troops will remain in so-called security zones in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely. "Unlike in the past, the (Israeli military) is not evacuating areas that have been cleared and seized," Israel Katz said in a statement. The military...

DALLAS (AP) - A shooting at a Dallas high school on Tuesday injured four students who were taken to hospitals, police said. Authorities did not say what led up to the shooting at Wilmer-Hutchins High School in south Dallas or the severity of the injuries. Police said a suspect has been identified but no arrests had bee...

DENVER (AP) - A former member of Gambia's military was convicted Tuesday of charges that included torturing people suspected of involvement in a failed coup against the West African country's longtime dictator nearly 20 years ago. Michael Sang Correa was charged with torturing five men believed to be opponents of Yahya...