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Benson driving at 'high rate' of speed before fatal crash
AUSTIN, Texas - Police said Monday they are still investigating the weekend motorcycle crash that killed former Texas Longhorns running back and NFL player Cedric Benson and a woman passenger. Accordi...
Aug 21, 2019

Only half of Southern Albertan crops rated "Good to Excellent"
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The latest report from Alberta Agriculture and Forestry (AAF) is not painting a bright picture in Southern Alberta, but it does depend on what you are growing.In the region that encom...
Aug 21, 2019 Wheat fields in Southern Alberta. (Lethbridge News Now)

NYPD fires officer 5 years after Garner's chokehold death
NEW YORK - After five years of investigations and protests, the New York City Police Department on Monday fired an officer involved in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, the black man whose dyin...
Aug 21, 2019

Hotter, larger fires turning boreal forest into carbon source: research
Research suggests that bigger, hotter wildfires are turning Canada's vast boreal forest into a source of climate-changing greenhouse gases. Soil in the forest, which crosses six provinces and two...
Aug 21, 2019

'What our ancestors meant:' Canada, First Nations create new park reserve
LUTSEL K'E, N.W.T. - A deal on a vast new national park reserve in the North is being called a model for future relationships between First Nations and Canada. "This is what our ancestors meant w...
Aug 21, 2019

AUMA President visits Lethbridge to discuss local issues
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Communities across Alberta can all face similar issues, but the solutions to those issues are not always necessarily the same.That's according to Barry Morishita, the Mayor of Brooks ...
Aug 21, 2019 Barry Morishita (left) with Lethbridge Mayor Chris Spearman on Wednesday, August 21 2019 (Lethbridge News Now)

Greenland fallout: Trump's cancelled trip blindsides Denmark
COPENHAGEN - The prime minister of Denmark said Wednesday she is "disappointed and surprised" by U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to cancel his visit to Denmark after she called Trump's idea of ...
Aug 21, 2019

Politicians say elections law restricting partisan ads is 'absurd,' 'lunacy'
OTTAWA - The man whose position on climate change is at the centre of a controversy over partisan campaign rhetoric weighed in Monday, saying Elections Canada is stifling free speech if environmental ...
Aug 21, 2019

US prisons chief removed from position after Epstein's death
WASHINGTON - Attorney General William Barr removed the acting director of the Bureau of Prisons from his position Monday, more than a week after millionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein took his own life...
Aug 21, 2019

Lethbridge College aims to increase diversity and inclusion through pilot project
LETHBRIDGE, AB - 17 post secondary schools across Canada are taking part in the Dimensions pilot program, a project that aims to recognize those that are actively looking to increase equity, diversity...
Aug 21, 2019 Lethbridge College. (Lethbridge News Now)