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Province plans to partner with the private sector in upcoming school projects

EDMONTON -- Alberta is back in the business of partnering with the private sector to build schools.Infrastructure Minister Prasad Panda says five of 25 new school projects being built over the next fi...

Nov 05, 2019 P-3 graphic

Province announces Mental Health and Addictions Panel

EDMONTON - The province has announced the members of its Mental Health and Addictions Advisory Council.Jason Luan, Associate Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, made the announcement Monday morn...

Nov 05, 2019 Drug paraphernalia -- RDNewsNOW

Scammers posing as Canada Revenue Agency workers active in our area - Forewarned

LETHBRIDGE -- Both the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) in Lethbridge and city police have received numerous complaints over the past several days from people reporting scams.Police report a caller will id...

Nov 05, 2019 Lethbridge Police Station -- LNN

Canadian pork, beef exports to China to resume after a four-month suspension

OTTAWA - Beef producers are ecstatic. Effective Tuesday (Nov 5), Canadian meat export certificates to China resumed.Export certificates for Canadian meat were halted on June 25th, due to the discovery...

Nov 05, 2019 (Lethbridge News Now)

Youth not employed or in school face poorer mental, physical health: study

OTTAWA - A new study is offering what it calls a rare look at the health and psychological impacts endured by Canadian youth who are not working, training or studying. The Statistics Canada research s...

Olivia Thorington Nov 05, 2019

First responders strained from drug crisis, ARCHES says SCS has not impacted crime

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge City Council heard from several community experts on opioid use, and how various groups are responding to it. This includes presentations from Lethbridge Police Service (LP...

Andrew Snook Nov 04, 2019 Lethbridge City Hall. (Lethbridge News Now)

Proposed seed royalty changes on hold

Prairie farm groups have released results of their seed royalty survey, and they say producers do not support the two seed royalty models under consideration by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and th...

Nov 04, 2019 Grain harvest -- Glenn Miller

Second trial underway for Raymond man facing historical sex assault charges

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A second trial got underway Monday, Nov. 4, in Court of Queen's Bench, involving a 51-year-old Raymond man, charged with a series of historical sexual assaults dating back between 198...

Nov 04, 2019 Lethbridge Courthouse

Local company fined for workplace accident

REGINA -- A southern Alberta company has been fined 60-thousand dollars for a workplace accident in Saskatchewan that seriously injured a worker.Varsteel Limited of Lethbridge pleaded guilty in a Regi...

Nov 04, 2019 VarSteel - Photo credit to Var Steel Lethbridge web site

Elizabeth May resigns as Green party leader

OTTAWA -- Elizabeth May says she is no longer the leader of the federal Green party. May told a news conference today on Parliament Hill that she's stepping down as leader effective immediately, and a...

Nov 04, 2019 Elizabeth May -- The Canadian Press