The Lethbridge Hurricanes have made several new additions to their squad.The team made nine selections in the 2025 WHL Prospects Draft, picking up five forwards, three defencemen and one goaltender.The following information was provided by the Hurricanes in a news release:Lethbridge selected defenceman Liam McFadden wi...

A new report from Statistics Canada says Alberta was one of the country's leaders in employment growth last month.It says around 15,000 Albertans found work last month, 14,100 of whom came into full-time positions. This largely helped to offset a decline in jobs from March.Quebec was the only jurisdiction to see a bigg...

The City of Lethbridge could soon explore different business models for Lethbridge & District Exhibition (LDE).It was proposed at a meeting of the Economic Standing Policy Committee this week that LDE be split into two separate entities - one focused on operating the Agri-food Hub & Trade Centre and one to serv...

Some of the best collegiate baseball teams are set to arrive in Lethbridge next week.The city is hosting the 2025 Canadian College World Series (CCWS) at Spitz Stadium from May 15-18.It will bring together the top eight college baseball programs in Western Canada in a double-knockout format to crown this year's nationa...

Lethbridge's federal Conservative candidate is set to enter her fourth term in office.Rachael Thomas won an estimated 60.8 per cent of the votes in Monday's federal election."I'm really excited for the opportunity to once again represent the constituents of Lethbridge. I feel honoured, and yeah, I'm just full of j...

Two local mayors have re-committed to working with the woman who is set to enter her fourth term as the MP for Lethbridge.Lethbridge Mayor Blaine Hyggen and Coaldale Mayor Jack Van Rijn have issued statements on the projected re-election of Conservative candidate Rachael Thomas.She is estimated to have secured an estim...

The industry group representing Canada's oil and gas service contractors has laid out its top priorities for the Liberal government in Ottawa, which held onto power in Monday's federal election.The Canadian Association of Energy Contractors says both the Liberals and the Conservatives recognized the need to grow oil an...

Alberta's Information and Privacy Commissioner has found the Government of Alberta is non-compliant with processing access to information requests under the FOIP Act.The finding comes after Diane McLeod conducted a 21-month long investigation into 27 government departments.The full report can be read here.The investiga...

The Alberta NDP and other health-oriented groups say Bill 55, The Health Statutes Amendment Act, proposed by the provincial government, will destroy public health if passed.This comes following second reading of the legislation on Wednesday; it was tabled May 1.The office of Health Minister Adriana LaGrange says the ND...

A regiment based in Medicine Hat helped to free a Dutch city 80 years ago - and its mayor wants to create a bond of friendship so it's never forgotten.Over the course of five days in November 1944, the South Alberta Regiment - now the South Alberta Light Horse - was instrumental in a Canadian effort to free the Municip...

A new report from Statistics Canada says Alberta was one of the country's leaders in employment growth last month.It says around 15,000 Albertans found work last month, 14,100 of whom came into full-time positions. This largely helped to offset a decline in jobs from March.Quebec was the only jurisdiction to see a bigg...

The Lethbridge Hurricanes have made several new additions to their squad.The team made nine selections in the 2025 WHL Prospects Draft, picking up five forwards, three defencemen and one goaltender.The following information was provided by the Hurricanes in a news release:Lethbridge selected defenceman Liam McFadden wi...

Some of the best collegiate baseball teams are set to arrive in Lethbridge next week.The city is hosting the 2025 Canadian College World Series (CCWS) at Spitz Stadium from May 15-18.It will bring together the top eight college baseball programs in Western Canada in a double-knockout format to crown this year's nationa...

The Lethbridge Hurricanes have added three people to their roster this week and lost one.US Priority DraftMost recently, at the 2025 US Priority Draft, the WHL team selected 2010-born players Cash Whitmore and Drew Kortan.Whitmore, 14, was selected in the first round (23rd overall) in the US Draft. The Long Tree, Color...

The City of Lethbridge could soon explore different business models for Lethbridge & District Exhibition (LDE).It was proposed at a meeting of the Economic Standing Policy Committee this week that LDE be split into two separate entities - one focused on operating the Agri-food Hub & Trade Centre and one to serv...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith returned Saturday from her visit to Asia to identify new opportunities for collaboration across Alberta's resource, agri-food and technology sectors. - READ: Premier Smith visiting Asia to grow Alberta's energy and agriculture markets - Smith said her time in South Korea and Japan made cl...

Alberta's seven regional agricultural societies are receiving a one-time cash injection of over $7 million to face challenging economic conditions and plan ahead. Lethbridge and District Exhibition, Medicine Hat Exhibition and Stampede, Grande Prairie Regional Ag and Exhibition, and Red Deer's Westerner Park are among ...

MONTREAL - The political organization that represents Inuit in Quebec says policing in the Far North is "broken" after an officer shot and killed an Inuk man on Tuesday. The shooting by the Nunavik Police Service is the second officer-involved death in the northern region since November. Makivvik, a group tha...

OTTAWA - A Liberal candidate who lost to his Conservative rival by just 77 votes in the federal election says his request for a judicial recount has been granted. Irek Kusmierczyk, the Liberal incumbent in Windsor-Tecumseh-Lakeshore, argues in a social media post today that several ballots were "wrongly rejected.&...

WASHINGTON - The White House is downplaying the North American automobile industry's claim that U.S. President Donald Trump's new trade deal with the United Kingdom could make the sector less competitive. The preliminary deal announced Thursday would drop tariffs on U.K. automobiles to 10 per cent for a quota of 100,00...

A First Nation in northwestern Ontario is seeking $200 million in emergency relief from the federal government to address the "critical" state of its water and sewage system as part of legal action launched in Federal Court, lawyers for the community said Friday. Pikangikum First Nation submitted a motion Thu...

LAVAL - A court hearing will take place in September into whether a man who killed two children by driving a city bus into a Montreal-area daycare should be declared a high-risk offender. Superior Court Justice Éric Downs today set aside one week beginning Sept. 15 to hear arguments from prosecutors and the defe...

VANCOUVER - The group that organized the Lapu Lapu Day festival where 11 people were killed last month has released the names of the dead. Filipino BC says in a social media post that its members honour the lives lost in the tragedy and hold their families close in their thoughts. "May their memory live on in the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The Trump administration must halt much of its dramatic downsizing of the federal workforce, a California judge ordered Friday. Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco issued the emergency order in a lawsuit filed last week by labor unions and cities, one of multiple legal challenges to Republican Pre...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's army spokesman said that India has fired missiles at three air bases inside the country, but most of the missiles have been intercepted. Lt. Gen. Ahmad Sharif said in a televised address that all Pakistan Air Force assets are safe. He added that some of the Indian missiles also hit...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested Friday at an ICE Detention Center where he was protesting its opening, a federal prosecutor said. Alina Habba, acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, said on the social platform X that Baraka committed trespass and ignored warnings from Homeland Security personnel ...