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MLA Neudorf: budget "corrects spending" and invests in jobs

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The MLA for Lethbridge-East says last week's provincial budget makes some tough spending decisions, but ones that will ultimately be beneficial.Nathan Neudorf told LNN that, while the...

Mar 06, 2020

Kodiaks basketball teams fall in ACAC championship tournament openers

CAMROSE, AB - Going into the ACAC championships, it appeared as though the Lethbridge College Kodiaks men's basketball team were sure-fire favourites to win it all.Unfortunately for Kodiaks fans, that...

Mar 06, 2020 Photo: Lethbridge College Kodiaks on Facebook

Lethbridge-Medicine Hat unemployment rate up slightly in February

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The unemployment rate in the Lethbridge-Medicine Hat economic region took a small jump last month.The February rate was listed at 4.6 percent, up from 4.5 percent in January 2020.Acro...

Mar 06, 2020 Photo: The Canadian Press

Canada added 30,300 jobs in February, unemployment rate 5.6 per cent

OTTAWA - The unemployment rate in Canada nudged up a tenth of a percentage point to 5.6 per cent as the economy added 30,300 net new jobs in February, Statistics Canada said Friday. The agency said th...

Olivia Thorington Mar 06, 2020

Daylight saving a good time to check residential alarms

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The clocks will spring forward this weekend.Daylight saving time begins this Sunday, March 8. At 2:00 a.m., clocks get turned forward one hour to 3:00 a.m. local time.With the start o...

Mar 06, 2020 Photo: The Canadian Press

Pro bull riders take over ENMAX Centre this weekend

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Following an exciting competition that had the crowd on its feet in 2019, the Professional Bull Riders (PBR) Canada's Monster Energy Tour returns to Lethbridge this weekend.The event ...

Mar 06, 2020 Two-time national champion Zane Lambert (Photo credit to Covy Moore/CovyMoore.com)

First 'presumptive' case of COVID-19 for Alberta

EDMONTON, AB -- The province's chief medical officer of health has confirmed the province's first presumptive case of novel coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19.The case is determined to be "pres...

Mar 05, 2020 Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Chief Medical Officer of Health gOV'T OF aLBERTA

The Daily with LNN – March 5, 2020

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Take Lethbridge News Now on the go anytime, anywhere.The Daily is LNN's podcast-style news update, detailing some of the local, regional, and national stories we have been working on....

Mar 05, 2020 Lethbridge News Now

LPS arrest city couple after seizing drugs, weapons and stolen property

LETHBRIDGE, AB -- The seizure of weapons, drugs and stolen property from a north side home has resulted in charges against a Lethbridge couple. Last month, police received numerous complaints from con...

Mar 05, 2020 Weapons and drugs seized from north side home -- Photo credit to LPS

Health Canada to ban strychnine to kill Richardson's ground squirrels

EDMONTON - Health Canada is moving forward with a ban on the use of the deadly pesticide strychnine to kill gophers.The Health Canada website says an evaluation of scientific information confirms ther...

Mar 05, 2020 Richardson's Ground squirrel AKA gopher -photo credit to U-of-L