Category Archives: Lethbridge and Area
2024 Financial report earns award for Coaldale
Staff with the Town of Coaldale have been honoured with a prestigious award.It's received the Canadian Award for Financial Reporting by the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States...
Apr 28, 2026 (Image Credit: (Photo credit: Dreamstime))
Egress Roadway Construction Underway
The City of Lethbridge is indicating that construction has started on a temporary gravel access road connecting Great Bear Boulevard West to Metis Trail West. Back in November, Transportation and Tran...
Apr 28, 2026 (Image Credit: (Photo credit: Dreamstime))
Innovation, creativity highlighted during recent awards
Economic development in our part of the province continues to thrive.That's the sentiment of the Economic Developers of Alberta and its regional arm, Economic Development Lethbridge.Earlier this month...
Apr 28, 2026 EDL Interim CEO Ben Young accepting the Alex Metcalfe Award (Best in Show) Innovative Approach to Economic Development. (Image Credit: Economic Development Lethbridge)
Several longer term weather records broken across southern Alberta Monday
Cool temperatures across southern Alberta early on Monday had some long-term weather records fall for April 27, according to Environment Canada.A pair of 65-year-old weather records were broken in Med...
Apr 28, 2026 (Image Credit: Dmitry Naumov/Dreamstime)
Cookie knockout underway in Coaldale, Taber
The gloves are off, so to speak, in the 2026 Smile Cookie Knockout Challenge between the Tim Horton's in Coaldale and its Taber counterpart.After a banner year in 2025, where close to $24,000 was rais...
Apr 27, 2026 Taber Mayor Andrew Prokop and Coaldale Mayor Jack Van Rijn. (Image Credit: Supplied)
Smile Cookie Week
It's Smile Cookie Week at Tim Horton's locations across the country and here in Alberta.As of Monday, April 27 and continuing through this Sunday, May 3, every purchase of a two-dollar "smile" cookie ...
Apr 27, 2026 (Image Credit: LNN file photo)
SAEA acknowledges first decade in current home
It was a milestone, of sorts, for one non-profit Lethbridge agency this past Saturday, April 25. The Southern Alberta Ethnic Association marked its 10-year anniversary at its current Multicultural Cen...
Apr 27, 2026 (Image Credit: Supplied)
Planned power outages to Highland Park Townhomes
A series of planned power outages, from April 28-30, will impact all residents of Highland Park Townhomes, as crews upgrade underground power lines.Officials with the City of Lethbridge say these outa...
Apr 27, 2026 Power Outage Map (Image Credit: City of Lethbridge)
Commemorating victims of workplace tragedies on the National Day of Mourning April 28
Lethbridge residents are being encouraged to attend a National Day of Mourning ceremony on Tuesday.Marked annually in Canada on April 28, the National Day of Mourning serves to remember workers who ha...
Apr 27, 2026 (Image Credit: City of Lethbridge)
Mill Rate set in Crowsnest Pass
The Municipality of Crowsnest Pass has adopted its 2026 Tax Rate Bylaw.The document, formally approved by council at its April 22 meeting, includes a rise in the municipal mill rate of 0.26 per cent.T...
Apr 27, 2026 (Image Credit: LNN file photo)