A local organization is being honoured for a quarter of a century of ecological responsibility.The Oldman Watershed Council (OWC) was presented with the 2025 Emerald Award for Environmental Excellence in the Legacy Community Group/Non-Profit category at the 34th Annual Emerald Awards in Edmonton on June 5.Shannon Frank...

Small and medium-sized enterprises will soon have an easier time completing their research at Lethbridge Polytechnic.The school will receive $1.75 over five years from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for its Integrated Agriculture Technology Centre (IATC).Dr. Andrew Dunlop, Assoc...

Non-profits in Lethbridge are asking everyone who can donate bottled water to do so.The City Wide Water Drive, which includes a variety of organizations in the city, has been collecting water to give to people who are unable to take shelter from the heat this summer.Danielle McIntyre, Executive Director of the Interfai...

There will be no more open fires in the coulees in Lethbridge.The City of Lethbridge has activated its fire ban for the River Valley, which is effective immediately and until further notice.It impacts the use of the campfire pits in the River Valley.Elsewhere in the city, the public is still allowed to use propane/natu...

Another contender has stepped forward to potentially fill one of eight seats on Lethbridge City Council.Robin James will be on the ballot in the 2025 municipal election, which takes place from October 8-20, 2025. She provided the following answers to an LNN questionnaire:Why did you want to run for Lethbridge City Coun...

Another man has entered the city council race in Lethbridge. Suketu Shah has filed his nomination papers to run in the 2025 municipal election, which takes place October 8-20. He provided the following answers to a questionnaire from LNN: Why did you want to run for Lethbridge City Council? I'm running for city council...

A new report commissioned for the City of Lethbridge raises several issues with new regulations for this fall's municipal elections.PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) examined Bill 20, which was passed by the Alberta Government in late 2024, and came back to city council with a report at Tuesday's meeting. The province touts...

Alberta Culture Days is set to kick off once again, Sept. 1, with hundreds of free family-friendly events taking place.Nearly a quarter-million Albertans took in events last year, celebrating the province's arts and culture scene.This year, 111 organizations in 48 communities are receiving grants from the province to p...

The Government of Alberta is asking citizens to give feedback on the future of its new Alberta Disability Assistance Program (ADAP).They claim in a release Wednesday that it's become clear organizations want supports to meet unique needs and abilities, rather than a one-size-fits-all approach like the one currently off...

Team Alberta kept on with their winning ways on day three of the 2025 Canada Summer Games adding seven more medals for a total of 19 for the province, as of Tuesday evening.This includes Calgary's Christine Zhou who won gold in the 50 metre women's backstroke event following a 29.18 second performance."This is my ...

The board chair with Alberta Canola uses words like shocking, devastating, and not great news to wake up to, in describing a new tariff from China.The country announced a 76 per cent tariff on Canadian canola seed after it conducted an anti-dumping investigation on Tuesday.Valhalla Centre farmer Andre Harpe says tariff...

The Lethbridge Bulls went down in round one of the playoffs.They faced the Sylvan Lake Gulls on Thursday and Friday last week, dropping both contests in the best-of-three series.The Bulls were shut out 8-0 in the opening contest, while game two went 6-2 to the Gulls.Lethbridge finished the regular season third in the W...

The rosters for a major upcoming international U-18 hockey tournament have been announced.The Canadian Hockey League (CHL) says 60 players from its member leagues will compete at the Hlinka Gretzky Cup in Brno, Czechia, including five who play for teams in southern Alberta. Representing the Lethbridge Hurricanes is 17-...

The Lethbridge Bulls will have to wait a bit longer before they get the chance to play in the Western Canadian Baseball League (WCBL) playoffs.Game 1 of the Western Division semi-finals at Gulls Stadium in Sylvan Lake was cancelled on Wednesday night due to rain and has been rescheduled.The first contest in the series ...

Small and medium-sized enterprises will soon have an easier time completing their research at Lethbridge Polytechnic.The school will receive $1.75 over five years from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for its Integrated Agriculture Technology Centre (IATC).Dr. Andrew Dunlop, Assoc...

Alberta Open Farm Days is set for Saturday and Sunday, August 16 and 17, 2025.The weekend gives people a chance to visit farms and ranches, see food production first-hand, and try and buy locally produced products.Several operations in southern Alberta are taking part.Theoretically Brewing - LethbridgeFarming Smarter A...

A researcher from Lethbridge Polytechnic has been recognized nationally for his contributions in developing a lower cost, less wasteful crop testing method.Results Driven Agriculture Research chair Dr. Chandra Singh is also the director of the Advanced Post-harvest Technology Centre in Lethbridge Polytechnic's Centre f...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Some Air Canada flights to be cancelled today Some Air Canada flights that were scheduled to take off today will be cancelled as the airline braces for a work stoppage this weekend. The union that represents around 10,000 Air Cana...

Former Richmond, B.C., city councillor Harold Steves' family has been farming in the area since 1877, lending their name to the community of Steveston. The 88-year-old former politician only retired from council three years ago, and few can match his knowledge of the controversies surrounding Richmond's farmland - the ...

OTTAWA - A former top general says it would be "unconscionable" for Ottawa to allow the family of an Afghan translator who risked his life to help Canadian soldiers to be deported back to Afghanistan. Retired general Rick Hillier, a former chief of the defence staff, said it would be appalling if Canada faile...

REGINA - A Chinese tariff of nearly 76 per cent on Canadian canola seed is set to come into force today. The duty, announced Tuesday, has already caused the price of one of Canada's most valuable crops to fall, wiping out millions of dollars in its value. It comes a year after China launched an anti-dumping investigati...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says a preliminary search of a Winnipeg landfill for the remains of a victim of a serial killer has started. Kinew says the province is in the test phase of the search at the city-run Brady Road landfill for the remains of Ashlee Shingoose. Shingoose was one of the four First Natio...

OTTAWA - More than 14,000 people cast their ballots early in the Battle River-Crowfoot byelection, Elections Canada says. Elections Canada says an estimated 14,452 voters made their way to the advance polls. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is running in Battle River-Crowfoot after losing his Ottawa-area seat in th...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A Rhode Island man accused of faking his death and fleeing the United States to evade rape charges was found guilty Wednesday of sexually assaulting a former girlfriend in his first of two Utah trials. A jury in Salt Lake County found Nicholas Rossi guilty of a 2008 rape after a three-day trial in...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Residents in one Washington, D.C., neighborhood lined up Wednesday to protest the increased police presence after the White House said the number of National Guard troops in the nation's capital would ramp up and federal officers would be the streets around the clock. After law enforcement set up a ve...

ROME (AP) - A boat carrying nearly 100 migrants capsized Wednesday in international waters off the Italian island of Lampedusa, killing at least 26 people and leaving about a dozen missing, the Italian coast guard and U.N. agencies said. Sixty survivors were brought to a center in Lampedusa, said Filippo Ungaro, a UNHC...