Work is underway to help communities across the region address labour gaps.The SouthGrow Regional Initiative was among the 25 organizations in southern Alberta to receive funding from the Government of Alberta's Northern and Regional Economic Development (NRED) Program.They will use their $128,000 grant to create and i...

The Lethbridge Hurricanes are hoping to get back into winning ways when game four of their second-round WHL playoff series against Calgary starts on Wednesday, April 16.The Canes fell 5-3 to the Hitmen Tuesday night, their first loss of the series.After a first period where neither team made it onto the scoreboard, Cal...

The Lethbridge Public Library is hosting one final opportunity for voters in the Lethbridge federal riding to hear from all of the local candidates.The Federal Election Forum takes place from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the downtown branch.LNN's David Opinko will be part of a media panel, which will ask each of the six c...

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, ...

The Lethbridge Public Library is hosting one final opportunity for voters in the Lethbridge federal riding to hear from all of the local candidates.The Federal Election Forum takes place from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the downtown branch.LNN's David Opinko will be part of a media panel, which will ask each of the six c...

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...

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 Lethbridge Hurricanes are hoping to get back into winning ways when game four of their second-round WHL playoff series against Calgary starts on Wednesday, April 16.The Canes fell 5-3 to the Hitmen Tuesday night, their first loss of the series.After a first period where neither team made it onto the scoreboard, Cal...

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...

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...

The Bank of Canada left its benchmark interest rate unchanged Wednesday as it waits to get a clearer picture of how global trade uncertainty is going to impact the Canadian economy.The central bank held its policy rate steady at 2.75 per cent, the first time it has left the key rate unchanged following seven consecutiv...

OTTAWA - Liberal Leader Mark Carney's French language skills will be put to the test, and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will seek to turn his numbers around, when the five main federal party leaders square off in Montreal tonight in the first of two debates ahead of election day on April 28. The two-hour French-...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Party leaders square off in first debate tonight Liberal Leader Mark Carney's French language skills will be put to the test, and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will seek to turn his numbers around, when the five main federa...

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...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration announced a lawsuit Wednesday against Maine's education department for not complying with the government's push to ban transgender athletes in girls sports, escalating a dispute over whether the state is abiding by a federal law that bars discrimination in education based on s...

LONDON (AP) - The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the U.K. equalities law defines a woman as someone born biologically female. Justice Patrick Hodge said five judges at the court had ruled unanimously that "the terms 'woman' and 'sex' in the Equality Act refer to a biological woman." The ruling means that ...

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...