Category Archives: Post to Social
Eastern Canada braces for more flooding as forecast calls for rain
MONTREAL - Communities across much of Eastern Canada are bracing for more flooding today, with rain in the forecast from central Ontario to northern New Brunswick. Officials in Quebec are keeping a cl...
Apr 26, 2019
Coaldale and Lethbridge Fire crews deal with farmyard blaze
COALDALE -- The smoke could be seen by travellers on Highway-4. However, the fire, spotted around 2:30 Thursday (Apr 25) afternoon, was located about a mile south of Highway-512 (Jail Road) just off o...
Apr 25, 2019 LethbridgeNewsNOW.com
Farmers weighing canola conundrum with spring seeding underway
CYPRESS COUNTY, AB - It's a spring tradition Bradley Betcker and his family have become accustomed to over the years, seeding tens of thousands of acres at the T Bar Cattle Company southwest of Medici...
Apr 25, 2019 Photo courtesy of Bob Schneider
Canfor announces temporary shutdown of BC Lumber Mills
CRANBROOK, B.C. -- First it was oil, then canola and now, lumber.Canfor Corporation has announced that they will be temporarily curtailing operations at all British Columbia dimension mills effective ...
Apr 25, 2019 Canfor operations in British Columbia and Alberta. Mills are shown by the graphic of two trees
Federal funding provided for U of L, Piikani First Nation projects
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The federal government is providing $1.6 million to the University of Lethbridge.The two grants will go towards two projects that will support 'sustainable and culturally respectable ...
Apr 25, 2019 Photo: Lethbridge News Now
University of Calgary basketball player dead, canoe tipped in B.C. lake
CALGARY - Members of the University of Calgary men's basketball team are mourning the loss of teammate Andrew Milner after his body was found in Moyie Lake in southeastern British Columbia. Cranb...
Apr 24, 2019
Lethbridge man sentenced in connection with 2018 Taber home invasion case
TABER, AB - A Lethbridge man charged with numerous offences involving a home invasion and assault at a home in Taber in July 2018, has been sentenced. According to Taber Police, they were called to a ...
Apr 24, 2019 Taber Courthouse
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
Raymond man convicted of historic sex crimes to be sentenced in June
LETHBRIDGE, AB - A 50-year-old man from Raymond, found guilty of three counts of sexual assault, and one count of indecent assault, in relation to crimes that occurred in the early to mid-1980s, will ...
Apr 24, 2019
Palliser breaks ground on new Huntsville School
IRON SPRINGS - The celebration, on Thursday, April 18, kicked off construction of the long-awaited replacement for Huntsville School, but the occasion held more substance than that alone.The groundbre...
Apr 23, 2019 Palliser Regional Schools