Category Archives: Lethbridge
Accomplished doctor named to second term as U of L’s vice-president (research)
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The University of Lethbridge's Board of Governors has appointed Dr. Erasmus Okine to his second term as vice-president (research) of the school. According to the post-second instituti...
Apr 26, 2019 Dr. Erasmus Okine has been appointed the U of L's VP (research) for a second term (Photo: University of Lethbridge)
Aboriginal rights, Canadian law and the future of land claims in Canada
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Truth and reconciliation has been a focal point for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians for several years now both in politics and in everyday life. By most accounts, progres...
Apr 25, 2019 Dr. Nowlin speaking at SACPA
Psychiatric assessment results are in, trial for April Irving could go ahead
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Nearly two and a half months after a forensic assessment was ordered for April Dawn Irving, psychiatrists at the Southern Alberta Forensic Psychiatry Centre have found that the 59-yea...
Apr 24, 2019 April Irving in 2015 - Photo: Lethbridge News Now
End of an era - City of Lethbridge takes over ownership of vacated YMCA building
LETHBRIDGE, AB - As of noon Tuesday, April 23, the City of Lethbridge took over ownership of the vacated downtown YMCA building on Stafford Drive, as fences and traffic barriers were brought in. The C...
Apr 23, 2019 Fencing and traffic barriers put up at the old Stafford YMCA location in Lethbridge
Final election polling results give Lethbridge-West to Phillips by small margin
LETHBRIDGE -- All of the outstanding provincial election polls, including the "Advance Poll vote anywhere" numbers have now been counted by Elections Alberta.Shannon Phillips is the first New Democrat...
Apr 19, 2019 LethbridgeNewsNOW
Merging Realities VR conference returning to Lethbridge College for second year
LETHBRIDGE, AB - One year after making history in its inaugural run, the Merging Realities conference is returning for an encore. Lethbridge College, in April 2018, hosted the world's first conference...
Apr 17, 2019 Photo Credit: Lethbridge College
City of Lethbridge crews beginning University Drive twinning construction next week
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Road construction is scheduled to start on April 23 on the University Drive Twinning project. Project Manager Robert Kovacs says the initial work will see crews begin stripping some o...
Apr 17, 2019
NDP's Maria Fitzpatrick concedes defeat in Lethbridge-East; thanks supporters
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Thanking her supporters Tuesday evening at the Legion on Mayor Magrath Drive, and expressing how privileged she was over the last several years, former NDP MLA Maria Fitzpatrick refle...
Apr 16, 2019 Maria Fitzpatrick addresses supporters- Lethbridge News Now
Neudorf takes Lethbridge-East to become MLA-elect; Phillips projected winner in Lethbridge-West
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Entering a restaurant lounge to a crowd roaring its congratulations, MLA-elect Nathan Neudorf was nearly drowned by a sea of people wanting to shake his hand, hug him offer their cong...
Apr 16, 2019
Highway 3 Connector Transit Route between Lethbridge and Medicine Hat up and running
LETHBRIDGE, AB - It got a little easier to travel from Lethbridge to Medicine Hat, and several places in between, this week. SOUTHLAND Transportation Ltd., in partnership with the City of Medicine Hat...
Apr 16, 2019 Photo Credit: City of Lethbridge