Category Archives: Lethbridge Area

LETHBRIDGE – The Palliser School District has selected a candidate to take over the position of Superintendent, after former Superintendent Kevin Gietz’s contract was terminated last Febru...

LETHBRIDGE – The ongoing pertussis outbreak in the South Zone has prompted Alberta Health Services (AHS) to take further action. A review of confirmed cases has shown an increase in breakthrough...

MEDICINE HAT – Police are hoping residents can help them track down several suspects involved in a hit and run early Sunday morning. Emergency crews were called to a home in the 700 block of Tay...

MILK RIVER – Alberta Health Services has lifted the water quality advisory in place for the last month for the Milk River at Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park. The advisory went into effect in ea...

OKOTOKS – A free-for-all that began with a stolen vehicle and turned into a police pursuit complete with spike belts eventually resulted in a grass fire and the arrest of three people. The incid...

CRANBROOK, B.C. – A former husband and wife from the polygamous community of Bountiful, B.C., are going to jail for taking a 13-year-old girl into the United States to marry the now-imprisoned l...

CRANBROOK, B.C. – A former husband and wife from the polygamous community of Bountiful, B.C., are going to jail for taking a 13-year-old girl into the United States to marry the now-imprisoned l...

LETHBRIDGE – Any woman who is currently pregnant ,or will be giving birth soon in the South Health Zone, should get a Pertussis/whooping cough vaccine, regardless of whether they have had one in...

LETHBRIDGE – There are now more than 500 cases of whooping cough, or Pertussis in Alberta. Nearly half of those cases (223) originated in southern Alberta, in the Fort Macleod and Coaldale areas...

STAND OFF – More than 30 youth have signed up for a “Kids Against Drugs Run,” to be held August 16 and 17 on the Blood Tribe First Nation. Organizer Pamela Little Bear says a “...