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Lethbridge and Area

Paradise Canyon hosting Alberta Men's Amateur Golf Championship
Alberta's best golfers will be in Lethbridge early this summer for a major provincial tournament.Paradise Canyon Golf Resort will host the 2025 Alberta Men's Amateur Golf Championship on June 25-27.Matt Barkway, Executive Golf Professional at Paradise Canyon, says he is excited to welcome so many high-level players to ...
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Lethbridge Police resolved 99.4% of calls without force in 2024
The Lethbridge Police Service (LPS) says it responded to nearly 32,000 calls in 2024, resolving 99.4% without using force, according to a report presented to the Police Commission Wednesday.Of the 248 cases where force was used (0.6% of calls), there were no fatalities or hospitalizations. Most subjects sustained no vi...
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Southeast Alberta's aerospace industry poised for growth, experts say
The window of opportunity for southeast Alberta's aerospace industry is wide open for a growth spurt amid the U.S. trade war and calls for increased military spending, industry experts and advocates say.Spencer Fraser, founder and CEO of local drone company Landing Zones Canada, said the potential is there but the main...
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Drumheller's iconic 'World's Largest Dinosaur' set to close in 2029, shocking town council
Yet another dinosaur could go extinct.Drumheller's iconic World's Largest Dinosaur - known as Tyra - will close at the end of the current lease term in December 2029, the local chamber of commerce said Thursday.The 65-tonne, 25-metre tall Tyra, four times bigger than the real Tyrannosaurus Rex its modelled after, was b...
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Mar 18, 2025

Ecoline Windows: Supplying energy-efficient products to Canadian homeowners
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Alberta

KINDERGARTEN TO GRADE THREE
One-time funding added for reading, writing and math screening supports
Alberta's government is providing one time funding of $7.5 million to help make sure schools have the resources and staff needed to conduct the additional reading, writing and math screenings it began this year. This is in addition to the $10 million allocated for reading, writing and math support this next school year...
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COMES TO KANANASKIS IN JUNE
Alta. temporarily adjusting reservist leave to improve G7 Summit security
The Government of Alberta has issued a temporary regulation enabling Alberta-based Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) reserves to take reservist leave to support security measures at the G7 Summit planned for June in Kananaskis. On March 27, Matt Jones, Minister of Jobs, Economy and Trade, and Alberta's Military Liaison Justi...
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INTERSECTION SAFETY, ROAD UPGRADES
Alberta introducing new fund for traffic safety following changes to photo radar guidelines
Alberta's government has launched a new $13 million Traffic Safety Fund for municipalities to upgrade local roads and intersections that pose demonstrated safety risks. The move comes just ahead of April 1, when a new Automated Traffic Enforcement Technology Guideline goes into effect. This guideline limits ATE jurisdi...
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Provincial Funding
Alberta putting $19M toward municipal flood and drought prevention
EDMONTON - Alberta's government is putting $19 million toward municipal flood and drought prevention projects as part of its new budget.Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz says eight municipalities as well as two Indigenous communities are to receive the grant funding.She says the money will help build a new berm along...
Mar 27, 2025
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Local Sports

Paradise Canyon hosting Alberta Men's Amateur Golf Championship
Alberta's best golfers will be in Lethbridge early this summer for a major provincial tournament.Paradise Canyon Golf Resort will host the 2025 Alberta Men's Amateur Golf Championship on June 25-27.Matt Barkway, Executive Golf Professional at Paradise Canyon, says he is excited to welcome so many high-level players to ...
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Medicine Hat entertainment venues first in Alberta certified for sensory sensitivities
Medicine Hat's Co-op Place and the Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre have acquired a new certification that verifies they're better equipped to assist guests with sensory sensitivities, the first entertainment venues in Alberta to have earned it.KultureCity's Sensory Inclusive program has been widely embraced by venue...
Mar 25, 2025
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Lethbridge Hurricanes to face Brandon in opening round of WHL playoffs
There are just a few days to go before the start of the Western Hockey League (WHL) playoffs and the Lethbridge Hurricanes now know who they will be facing.The Canes will take on the Brandon Wheat Kings in the first round, a team Lethbridge has a favourable record against. They won three of four games against Brandon i...
Mar 24, 2025
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Agriculture

Ottawa increases AgriStability cap to help industry as it faces Chinese tariffs
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...
Mar 23, 2025
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SUPPORTS A CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Alberta supporting waste reduction and biogas industry with updates to agriculture act
The Government of Alberta has proposed updates to the Agricultural Operations Practices Act, intended to help reduce waste, allow farmers to supplement fertilizer with organic materials and help attract job-creating investment. This act and its regulations provide the rules and standards for all agricultural operations...
Mar 19, 2025
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AVOID ROLLOVERS AND FALLS
Agricultural Safety Week: Slow down and make a plan
This year, March 16-22 marks Agricultural Safety Week in Canada, an annual national event aimed at highlighting the importance of farm safety. "Canadian Agricultural Safety Week is a good time to remind those working on farms and ranches about the importance of farm health and safety measures to keep operations sa...
Mar 19, 2025
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Canada

Vancouver police deploying big presence to 'maintain order' at anti-Tesla protests
VANCOUVER - Vancouver police say they are investigating 28 anti-Tesla incidents and will deploy more than 130 extra officers to "maintain order" at protests targeting the electric carmaker this weekend. The force says in a statement that the incidents targeting Tesla are suspected to be politically motivated ...
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Canada's most wanted: Quebec street gang leader arrested in Rome hideout
MONTREAL - Canada's most wanted fugitive has been arrested in Italy after more than a year at large. Dave (Pik) Turmel, alleged by police to be the head of Quebec street gang Blood Family Mafia, was arrested in Rome on Thursday after local police were tipped off about his presence in the Italian capital. Quebec City po...
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Estate of late Savoura founder sues helicopter company in 2019 deadly Quebec crash
MONTREAL - A United States helicopter company is facing a $50-million lawsuit in the 2019 crash that killed the founder of a Quebec greenhouse farming company and his teenage son. The estate of Stéphane Roy, the late founder and ex-CEO of Savoura, has launched a lawsuit against Robinson Helicopter Company Inc. i...
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Vancouver abortion and reproductive health clinic to shut after 35 years
VANCOUVER - A Vancouver abortion and reproductive health clinic that has operated for more than three decades is shutting its doors due to funding uncertainty. The Elizabeth Bagshaw Clinic says the facility's lease is set to run out this summer, and relocating and investing in a new site "did not make sense" ...
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Ottawa posts $26.8 billion deficit for April-to-January period
OTTAWA - The federal government posted a budgetary deficit of $26.8 billion for the April-to-January period of its 2024-25 fiscal year. The result compared with a deficit of $25.7 billion for the same period a year earlier. According to the Finance Department's monthly fiscal monitor, revenue for the 10-month period to...
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CP NewsAlert: Mark Carney set to speak with U.S. President Donald Trump this morning
OTTAWA - A White House official says Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to speak with U.S. President Donald Trump this morning. More to come. Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press
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World

Vance and wife tour US military base in Greenland after diplomatic spat over uninvited visit
NUUK, Greenland (AP) - Vice President JD Vance, his wife and other senior U.S. officials visited an American military base in Greenland on Friday in a trip that was scaled back after an uproar among Greenlanders and Danes who were irked that the original itinerary was planned without consulting them. The revised trip t...
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South Carolina inmate chooses to die by firing squad like the last condemned inmate before him
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A second South Carolina death row inmate has asked to die by firing squad just five weeks after the state carried out its first death by bullets. Mikal Mahdi chose the firing squad Friday. His execution is scheduled for April 11. Mahdi was convicted for killing a police officer with a gun he stole...
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Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to lift an order barring deportations under wartime law
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court for permission to resume deportations of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law, while a court fight continues. The emergency appeal to the high court follows a rejection of the Republican administration's plea to...
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