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Cost of Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion rises 70% to $12.6-billion

EDMONTON, AB - The cost to build the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion has jumped by 70 per cent to $12.6 billion from a three-year-old estimate of $7.4 billion.President and CEO Ian Anderson says the...

Feb 07, 2020 (Supplied by The Canadian Press)

Unemployment rate jumps in Lethbridge-Medicine Hat region in January

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The jobless rate went up slightly in the Lethbridge-Medicine Hat economic region last month. In January, unemployment was at 4.5 percent in the area. That's up from 4.0 percent in Dec...

Feb 07, 2020 (Pexels)

Lethbridge Police investigating apparent homicide

LETHBRIDGE, AB - UPDATE 12 P.M. - Lethbridge Police are still looking for those connected with an apparent homicide in the 200 blk. of University Drive West. The bi-level home brown and white home is ...

Feb 07, 2020 Home along the 200 blk. of University Dr. West where a 35-year-old man was shot and killed

U of L and Lethbridge College Weekend Sports Preview: Feb. 7-9, 2020

LETHBRIDGE, AB - With some teams prepping for the playoffs, others are looking to wrap their regular seasons on a high note. Here's a preview of some of the weekend sports action out of Lethbridge Col...

Feb 07, 2020

Kraft Hockeyville nomination & rally period closes Sunday

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The nomination window for the Kraft Hockeyville competition is quickly coming to a close.Community members are able to nominate their local arena and others can then rally behind it. ...

Feb 07, 2020 (Supplied by Kraft Hockeyville)

$17,600 in drugs and cash confiscated in Lethbridge arrest

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A Lethbridge man is facing several charges after being apprehended by police on Tuesday, February 4.Following a brief investigation by Lethbridge Police Service's (LPS) Crime Suppress...

Feb 06, 2020 Items confiscated from the Feb. 4 arrest. (Supplied by Lethbridge Police Service)

Whooping cough outbreak declared over in southern Alberta

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Residents of southern Alberta can breathe a sigh of relief.Alberta Health Services (AHS) has officially ended the outbreak of whooping cough (pertussis) that was declared on October 1...

Feb 06, 2020 The Lethbridge Community Health clinic. (Lethbridge News Now)

Liberal Education Dean offers perspective on the approach in post-secondary institutions

LETHBRIDGE, AB- Dean Shelly Wismath from the University of Lethbridge's Liberal Education department offered her thoughts on what Alberta universities have done with the liberal concept. "The Liberal ...

Feb 06, 2020 U-of-L Liberal Education Dean Shelley Wismatch - LNN

Messages of love from Lakeview students bring joy to struggling couple

LETHBRIDGE, AB - As students in Alex Funk's Grade 2 elementary school class worked on creating their plasticine hearts Thursday afternoon, they had no idea that just across the school field from them,...

Feb 06, 2020 A poster near Lakeview Elementary School in Lethbridge asks people to take the cards created by Grade 2 students

Prison Needle Exchange Program coming to Bowden, union rep voices concerns

INNISFAIL, AB - The Prison Needle Exchange Program (PNEP) is headed to Bowden Institution in the Innisfail area next month, and not everyone is happy about it.The program has needles provided to inmat...

Feb 06, 2020 Bowden Institution (Photo courtesy rdnewsNOW)