Lethbridge and Area

Three city residents charged after high risk incident

LETHBRIDGE -- The investigation continues but, two men and a woman, all from Lethbridge, face a string of charges after both the Priority Crime Unit and the Critical Incident Response Team seized 13 f...

Sep 06, 2019 LPS cruiser --LNN

Cottonwood Park set to temporarily close for improvement work

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Effective Monday, September 9, Lethbridge's Cottonwood Park will be closed.The move is only temporary, however, as crews will be working on improvements around the space.Improvements ...

Sep 06, 2019 Cottonwood Park Map (City of Lethbridge)

Lethbridge-Medicine Hat’s unemployment rate rises in August

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The jobless rate went up in the Lethbridge area last month.In August, the unemployment rate for the Lethbridge-Medicine Hat economic region was listed at 7.1 per cent, up from 6.4 per...

Sep 06, 2019

Man convicted of beating partner, keeping her in RV for two days, sentenced in Lethbridge Provincial Court

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A 53-year-old man who has five prior domestic assault convictions involving three different partners, and a criminal record dating back to 1980, has been convicted again of multiple o...

Sep 05, 2019 Lethbridge Courthouse

Future of HALO Air Ambulance Program "bleak", officials call for funding

LETHBRIDGE COUNTY, AB - A group of mayors and reeves from Southern Alberta will be asking the provincial government to fund the HALO Air Ambulance program.A helicopter based out of Medicine Hat is use...

Sep 05, 2019 HALO Air Ambulance. (Supplied by HALO Rescue)

Winners of Lethbridge's Allied Arts Council Excellence Awards announced

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Artists, organizations, and businesses are being recognized for their contribution to the arts in the city.The Allied Arts Council of Lethbridge has announced the following 2019 Allie...

Sep 05, 2019 Allied Arts Council of Lethbridge logo.

8th annual Reuse Rendezvous set to go this week

LETHBRIDGE, AB - School is back in session and fall is right around the corner.That creates an ideal team to do some cleaning. With that, the 8th annual Reuse Rendezvous is set to go in Lethbridge Sep...

Sep 05, 2019 Reuse Rendezvous is one from Friday, Sept. 6 to Sunday, Sept. 8 (Photo courtesy Environment Lethbridge)

Emotional presentations at first Lethbridge Supervised Consumption Site Review meeting

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Hundreds of people came to the Coast Hotel in Lethbridge, to listen, find out more information, or to have their say on the city's Supervised Consumption Site.About 200 people turned ...

Sep 04, 2019 A seven-member panel listened to residents' concerns and experiences with the SCS

Thousands of litres of oily substance released into Oldman River

LETHBRIDGE, AB - What's believed to be between 3,500 and 4,500 litres of cooking oil was somehow recently released into Lethbridge's stormwater drainage system and ended up in the Oldman River.That's ...

Sep 04, 2019 What's believed to be cooking oil was released into the Oldman River

Lethbridge councillor proposes addictions study & relief for impacted businesses

LETHBRIDGE, AB - City Councillor Jeffrey Coffman introduced two motions at Tuesday's council meeting regarding addictions, drug use, and potential relief.The first was to hire a qualified researcher t...

Sep 04, 2019 Lethbridge City Hall. (Lethbridge News Now)