Lethbridge and Area

Voices support harm reduction - for all

LETHBRIDGE -- Concern was expressed across social media Saturday morning about the potential for trouble as opposing voices gathered in support of ARCHES or the business community surrounding the Safe...

Jul 07, 2019 Supporters at the rear of Hamilton Carpets - LethbridgeNewsNOW

Southern Alberta First Nation basketball players to hit court despite referee dispute

CALGARY - Young basketball players from a southern Alberta First Nation will be able to play in a tournament this week despite a dispute with a Calgary referee group. Truman Soop, a coach for two Indi...

Jul 06, 2019 Kainai basketball team -- The Canadian Press

$71,605 in grants given to groups in Lethbridge County

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Lethbridge County has awarded grants to six non-profits in the rural areas surrounding the city.This includes:McNally Community Association: $20,000 for a heating replacement proj...

Jul 06, 2019 Lethbridge County office. (Lethbridge News Now)

Lethbridge Police investigating death threats against local business owner relating to local SCS Facebook post

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Call it what you want - a feud, disagreement, or a battle. But an escalation of tensions appears to have occurred in recent weeks between the owner of a small business near downtown L...

Jul 05, 2019 Hamilton's Carpet One (Lethbridge News NOW)

Exhibition Park finalizing policies for cannabis consumption at Whoop Up Days

LETHBRIDGE, AB - There is only about a month and a half before Lethbridge's largest annual festival gets underway and organizers are working on a few new key policies.Namely, the recreational consumpt...

Jul 05, 2019 Whoop Up Days. (Lethbridge News Now)

Grants given to Stitch It Forward Lethbridge & Taber Lost Paws

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Field Law firm has announced the winners of its 7th Annual Community Fund Program.Five non-profits in Southern Alberta are receiving funding to go towards their general operations...

Jul 05, 2019 Taber Lost Paws Society and Stitch It Forward Society of Lethbridge

June unemployment rate down from May’s numbers in Lethbridge-Medicine Hat

OTTAWA, ON - Statistics Canada says the economy lost 2,200 jobs in June compared with the addition of 27,700 jobs in May of 2019. The unemployment rate across Canada rose to 5.5 per cent compared with...

Olivia Thorington Jul 05, 2019

Off-highway vehicles now allowed on Lethbridge County roads

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge County Council has adopted a bylaw to allow off-highway vehicles (OHV) to be used on three-digit numbered highways for faming operations.Reeve Lorne Hickey says quite a few...

Jul 04, 2019 Lethbridge County Reeve Lorne Hickey. (Lethbridge News Now)

Man caught inside Lethbridge Police bike compound

LETHBRIDGE, AB - It's not quite like allegedly stealing a cell phone and trying to sell it back to an undercover police officer in the police station "Safe Exchange Zone", but it's close. Lethbridge P...

Jul 04, 2019 Lethbridge Police Station

Irrigation system fails at Legacy Park in north Lethbridge

LETHBRIDGE, AB - City crews will be bringing in a temporary irrigation system at Legacy Park in north Lethbridge, after a serious failure in the regular system this spring rendered it completed unable...

Jul 04, 2019 A portion of the grass at the new Legacy Park in north Lethbridge