Lethbridge and Area

Skating legend Kurt Browning takes to the ice with local figure skating hopefuls

LETHBRIDGE -- He wasn't here to impress - but, how could he not!Kurt Browning is a figure skating legend, known for his affable personality and his skills on the ice. He is in Lethbridge to conduct sk...

Feb 07, 2020 Kurt Browning (kneeling 2nd from left) with a class of local skaters -- Photo credit to LNN

Police agencies must lean on technology & younger officers going forward

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Members of Lethbridge Police Service (LPS), Taber Police Service, and Blood Tribe Police Service have presented their vision of the future of policing.They spoke to a group of Crimina...

Feb 07, 2020 Lethbridge Police station. (Lethbridge News Now)

Province asks for 1% wage cut for AUPE members & three-year wage freeze

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Tens of thousands of workers in Alberta could see a slight rollback in their paycheques if the provincial government gets their way.Bargaining between the Government of Alberta and th...

Feb 07, 2020 Union members protest outside of Chinook Regional Hospital in January 2020. (Lethbridge News Now)

Unemployment rate jumps in Lethbridge-Medicine Hat region in January

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The jobless rate went up slightly in the Lethbridge-Medicine Hat economic region last month. In January, unemployment was at 4.5 percent in the area. That's up from 4.0 percent in Dec...

Feb 07, 2020 (Pexels)

Lethbridge Police investigating apparent homicide

LETHBRIDGE, AB - UPDATE 12 P.M. - Lethbridge Police are still looking for those connected with an apparent homicide in the 200 blk. of University Drive West. The bi-level home brown and white home is ...

Feb 07, 2020 Home along the 200 blk. of University Dr. West where a 35-year-old man was shot and killed

Kraft Hockeyville nomination & rally period closes Sunday

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The nomination window for the Kraft Hockeyville competition is quickly coming to a close.Community members are able to nominate their local arena and others can then rally behind it. ...

Feb 07, 2020 (Supplied by Kraft Hockeyville)

$17,600 in drugs and cash confiscated in Lethbridge arrest

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A Lethbridge man is facing several charges after being apprehended by police on Tuesday, February 4.Following a brief investigation by Lethbridge Police Service's (LPS) Crime Suppress...

Feb 06, 2020 Items confiscated from the Feb. 4 arrest. (Supplied by Lethbridge Police Service)

Whooping cough outbreak declared over in southern Alberta

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Residents of southern Alberta can breathe a sigh of relief.Alberta Health Services (AHS) has officially ended the outbreak of whooping cough (pertussis) that was declared on October 1...

Feb 06, 2020 The Lethbridge Community Health clinic. (Lethbridge News Now)

Liberal Education Dean offers perspective on the approach in post-secondary institutions

LETHBRIDGE, AB- Dean Shelly Wismath from the University of Lethbridge's Liberal Education department offered her thoughts on what Alberta universities have done with the liberal concept. "The Liberal ...

Feb 06, 2020 U-of-L Liberal Education Dean Shelley Wismatch - LNN

Messages of love from Lakeview students bring joy to struggling couple

LETHBRIDGE, AB - As students in Alex Funk's Grade 2 elementary school class worked on creating their plasticine hearts Thursday afternoon, they had no idea that just across the school field from them,...

Feb 06, 2020 A poster near Lakeview Elementary School in Lethbridge asks people to take the cards created by Grade 2 students