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Lethbridge and Area

Drugs, stolen property seized in downtown Lethbridge
The Lethbridge Police Service (LPS) says its ongoing targeted enforcement project is delivering results. On Wednesday, May 21, uniformed and covert members of the LPS Downtown Policing Unit, Crime Suppression Team, Property Crimes Unit, Community Peace Officers, and their partners with the Alberta Sheriffs SCAN team we...
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City of Lethbridge asks residents to conserve water as reservoir remains low
Although we are not in as bad of a situation as we were last year, the City of Lethbridge is still asking the public to reduce their water usage whenever possible.Three reservoirs in the region feed the Oldman watershed. Their storage levels, as of Friday morning, May 23, are as follows:Oldman Reservoir: 65 per cent fu...
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Alberta, Ottawa spending $7 million to fund six new urban wildfire teams
Alberta's public safety minister says provincial and federal funding will create six teams of urban wildfire crews across the province.Mike Ellis says having six more teams means Alberta will have eight crews with specialized training to respond to fires threatening communities.He says the teams will be based in munici...
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Medicine Hat Tigers open 105th Memorial Cup against hosting Oceanic
One week removed from claiming their sixth WHL championship in franchise history, the Medicine Hat Tigers now aim to add another trophy to the mantle, the Memorial Cup.The Tigers defeated the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the Eastern Conference Championship series to move on to this event.READ MORE: Canes eliminated from WH...
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Alberta

Provincial Politics
New grants aim to grow primary care in Alberta
New provincial grants totalling about $25 million are expected to support innovative, community-led projects to improve access to primary health care across Alberta.Alberta's government has announced it is investing in made-in-Alberta solutions to strengthen the province's primary health care system, including Indigeno...
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Provincial Politics
Finance Minister Nate Horner to promote Alberta on the world stage
Finance Minister Nate Horner will travel to Europe May 25-June 5 to meet with Alberta's bond investors and the investment community.According to provincial officials, Minister Horner will meet with groups of investors, government officials and industry in Germany, Czechia, Poland, the United Kingdom and Ireland. The me...
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Alberta, Ottawa spending $7 million to fund six new urban wildfire teams
Alberta's public safety minister says provincial and federal funding will create six teams of urban wildfire crews across the province.Mike Ellis says having six more teams means Alberta will have eight crews with specialized training to respond to fires threatening communities.He says the teams will be based in munici...
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Picking buffaloberries and electric fences: how wildlife is being managed ahead of G7
OTTAWA - Wildlife officials in Alberta have a plan to keep delegates safe from bear encounters during the G7 meeting in Kananaskis, Alta., next month. This week, more than 200 local kids from began plucking buffaloberry bushes in an effort to keep the animals away from the summit. Staff with the province's public safet...
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Canada

Fewer international students adding to university budget challenges
OTTAWA - Canadian universities are being forced to tighten their financial belts as they struggle with plummeting enrolment from international students who pay higher tuitions. Universities Canada says "inadequate" provincial operating grants are also a factor in ongoing budget challenges for post-secondary i...
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The Liberals promised a suite of crime measures. Here's what they're taking on
OTTAWA - After an election which saw the Conservatives campaign heavily on crime while the Liberals promised stricter measures for offences like violent car thefts, the new minority Liberal government has a stack of new crime policies to implement. Lisa Kerr, an associate professor at the Queen's University law school,...
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King Charles to follow in mother's footsteps in delivering throne speech
OTTAWA - King Charles is set to open a new session of Parliament on Tuesday, seated in a throne that incorporates a piece of English walnut from Windsor Great Park, a preserve of his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth. The Royal Family connection is especially appropriate given that the Queen was the first sovereign to d...
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Mounties investigate ostrich death at B.C. farm facing cull order
RCMP say they are investigating the death of an ostrich at a farm in Edgewood, B.C., where protesters have gathered to prevent a cull of the birds ordered by federal authorities. Katie Pasitney, whose parents own the farm, posted a video on social media on Friday morning saying a large drone had flown over the property...
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Police arrest man for allegedly sending fentanyl from Vancouver to U.S.
SURREY - Police in British Columbia say a man has been arrested over an alleged cross-border trafficking operation in which fentanyl was sent from Vancouver to the United States. The province's Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit says the investigation with the Canada Border Services Agency began in February, with...
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Alberta judge grants bail for man convicted of 1987 murder after new trial ordered
EDMONTON - Decades after Roy Allan Sobotiak was sentenced to life for the killing of an Edmonton woman, the 61-year-old is set to walk out of prison. Alberta Court of King's Bench Justice Eric Macklin granted bail Friday to Sobotiak, who was convicted in 1991 for the murder of Susan Kaminsky. His conviction was quashed...
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