Lethbridge and Area

Investigation ordered into circumstances around arrest of Blood Tribe woman

STANDOFF, AB - The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) has been called in to investigate the arrest of a southern Albertan woman.The investigation was ordered because her health reportedly ...

Nov 20, 2019 Blood Tribe Police station. (Lethbridge News Now)

Three week trial underway in Coutts cocaine seizure case

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A trial scheduled to take place over the next three weeks is underway in Court of Queen's Bench in Lethbridge for a man charged with unlawfully importing a controlled substance, and p...

Nov 20, 2019 Cocaine Seizure by Coutts Border Officers

29-year-old pleads not guilty to aggravated assault charge

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A Lethbridge man charged in connection with a stabbing last March, has pleaded not guilty to one count of aggravated assault. 29-year-old Jarret Bruce Healy appeared in Lethbridge Pro...

Nov 20, 2019 Lethbridge Courthouse

Lethbridge's yard waste sites collect 1.89-million kg this year, to close Nov. 30

LETHBRIDGE, AB - At the end of this month, residents will no longer be able to access the yard waste collection sites that are available at the city's three recycling centers.Since the beginning of th...

Nov 20, 2019 Yard waste collection site in Lethbridge. (Supplied by City of Lethbridge)

Childcare students take part in empathy-building "poverty simulation" in Lethbridge

LETHBRIDGE, AB - "I think one of the things for the younger students that come into the Child and Youth Care program is, sometimes, they don't have a lot of experience with the different agencies that...

Nov 20, 2019 Students in the poverty simulations try to sell items to a pawn shop to make ends meet. (Lethbridge News Now)

Should Alberta ditch bi-annual time changes? Province launches survey

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Daylight saving time has been a time-honoured tradition in Alberta for the last half-century, but the government wants to know if this should be a thing of the past.Governments across...

Nov 20, 2019 (Supplied by Government of Alberta)

RCMP confirm one death in collision with cattle liner between Brocket and Pincher Creek

BROCKET, AB - Pikani RCMP and Pincher Creek RCMP were called to a serious collision between a car and a cattle liner on Highway 3 around 15 km east of Brocket at approximately 9:00 am on Tuesday, Nove...

Nov 19, 2019 RCMP sign. (Lethbridge News Now)

Lethbridge ranks 15th overall on Maclean's Magazine's "Canada's Most Dangerous Places 2020" list

LETHBRIDGE, AB - *This story has been corrected to include information on ALL crime, as opposed to simply the "violent crime" category. Out of 237 small, medium and large cities across the country, ac...

Nov 19, 2019 Picture of two guns seized by police

Lethbridge man injured in pedestrian collision north of the city

COALDALE -- Coaldale and Picture Butte RCMP and the Coalhurst Fire Department were call to a pedestrian collision along Highway 25 near township road 92, around 7:00-m Monday (Nov 18) evening. The 43 ...

Nov 19, 2019 RCMP uniform patch

Current level of City Hall spending “unsustainable,” says City Manager

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The first of two City Operational Performance Reviews was released to the public Monday, Nov. 18 by Lethbridge's new City Manager Bramwell Strain. It shows -among other things - that ...

Nov 18, 2019 City Manager Bramwell Strain