Lethbridge and Area

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

Lethbridge woman charged with assault causing bodily harm

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge Police have charged a 32-year-old woman in connection with an assault on a senior citizen.LPS reported that on July 3, at around 4:50 p.m., a 64-year-old man was in the fro...

Jul 04, 2019

Weather balloon from Stanford University crash lands in the MD of Taber

MD OF TABER, AB - It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a weather balloon!Late Tuesday, July 2, Peace Officers in the MD of Taber received a phone call from Stanford University in California alerting them t...

Jul 04, 2019 Peace Officers at the emergency landing site (Photo courtesy M.D. of Taber Regional Community Peace Officer Program)

Man with assault & weapon charges in Lethbridge fight returns to Alberta to face trial

LETHBRIDGE, AB - 22-year-old Abshir Mohamed Adiid was allegedly involved in a physical altercation with a man in Lethbridge on October 28th, 2018.During an "out of control" party at a community hall o...

Jul 04, 2019 Lethbridge police station. (Lethbridge News Now)