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OTTAWA - The federal minister of agriculture says Canada is an important step closer to being recognized as a negligible-risk country for mad cow disease. Marie-Claude Bibeau says in a news release th...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Lethbridge-Medicine Hat region had the second highest unemployment rate in Alberta last month.In February, the jobless rate came out to 11.1 per cent. That's down slightly from 11...

NEW YORK - Pedro Almodvar exposed all his vulnerability in the semi-autobiographical film "Pain and Glory." Now he returns his focus to women not only with the short film "The Human Voice", an Oscar h...

LOS ANGELES - I have covered the Grammy Awards for the Associated Press for 15 years. But this strange year feels like the first time. Built around performances, full of singing and shouting, and with...

LETHBRIDGE, AB- With summer peeking around the corner, city parks in Lethbridge are opening to businesses holding outdoor fitness classes.The City of Lethbridge has compiled online information and gui...

Auston Matthews and the Toronto Maple Leafs came into the NHL's pandemic-shortened campaign desperately looking to change the narrative. On the heels of another post-season disappointment - this time ...

DOHA, Qatar - Canada's Sarah Pavan and Melissa Humana-Paredes lost 2-0 (22-20, 21-18) to Americans April Ross and Alexandra Klineman in the final of the Katara Beach Volleyball Cup on Friday. Pavan an...

EDMONTON, AB - The province is teaming with a University of Alberta professor on a new voluntary program that focuses on reading deficits among early learners in Alberta.The program, being supported b...

DETROIT - A four-member suburban Detroit lottery club won a $1.05 billion Mega Millions jackpot and will receive $557 million after taxes, officials said Friday. The winners claimed their prize weeks ...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge's two largest post-secondary schools are receiving funding to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion.Coming from the federal government's EDI Institutional Capacity-Build...