Category Archives: Lethbridge and Area

$500,000 awarded to local program helping female entrepreneurs across Alberta
LETHBRIDGE, AB- Alberta Innovates is funding $500,000 over 13 months to a Lethbridge-based program that aims to help rural female entrepreneurs.With this funding, Economic Development Lethbridge (EDL)...
Jun 03, 2022

Tractor trailer hauling hay catches fire west of Coalhurst
UPDATE: The fire has been extinguished and the traffic detour has ended.COALHURST, AB - A tractor trailer hauling hay caught fire Friday morning, June 3, 2022, just west of Coalhurst. The driver of th...
Jun 03, 2022

City of Lethbridge asks residents to register their pets
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge's Community Animal Services is asking the city's residents to make sure pets are registered, in order to provide proof of ownership and updated contact information. Registr...
Jun 03, 2022

High-risk incident ends, one person taken into custody
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Lethbridge Police Service (LPS) has taken one person into custody following what police call a 'high-risk incident' in Lethbridge.Early in the afternoon on Thursday, June 2, 2022,...
Jun 02, 2022

Neudorf running for re-election in Lethbridge-East, not ruling out UCP leadership bid
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Nathan Neudorf is seeking his second term in office.The MLA for Lethbridge-East has announced that he will be running for re-election in the 2023 Alberta provincial election.Neudorf s...
Jun 02, 2022

Police on scene at high-risk incident on West side, public advised to avoid the area
UPDATE: High-risk incident over, one person taken into custodyLETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge Police are on the scene of a high-risk incident near Walsh Drive and Heritage Boulevard West. Police are askin...
Jun 02, 2022

Ukrainian refugees in Canada can now apply for government income support
OTTAWA, ON - Immigration Minister Sean Fraser says Ukrainians who have fled to Canada from the war with Russia will start to receive income assistance from the federal government in the next five days...
Jun 02, 2022

Police warn parents, teens about online 'sextortion' scam
CALGARY, AB - Police in Calgary are warning parents, caregivers and teens about an online 'sextortion' scam. Police say they have already had 48 reports this year and most have targeted teenage boys. ...
Jun 02, 2022

Ottawa signs $1.3 billion settlement with Siksika Nation
SIKSIKA NATION, AB - A historic settlement between the Government of Canada and the Siksika Nation has been made official.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Mil...
Jun 02, 2022

Trudeau to visit Siksika Nation in Southern Alberta for signing ceremony
SIKSIKA, AB - UPDATE: Ottawa signs $1.3 billion settlement with Siksika NationOriginal Story:Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to visit a First Nation east of Calgary on Thursday, June 2, 2022, for a s...
Jun 02, 2022