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Province increases student apprenticeship funding

EDMONTON - The Government of Alberta will triple the amount of annual funding to CAREERS: The Next Generation, to more than $6 million a year by 2022-23, providing 6,000 students with paid internships...

Oct 29, 2019 Registered Apprenticeship Program student Aurora Erickson demonstrates her welding skills following Premier Kenney’s announcement

Government to ask public sector workers to take wage cut

EDMONTON -- The province is asking public sector workers to accept a pay cut when wage arbitration talks resume later this week.In a statement released Tuesday afternoon, Finance Minister Travis Toews...

Oct 29, 2019 Finance Minister Travis Toews in the Legislature -- Govt of Alberta

City Council holds off on parking fine and rate increases - for now

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge City Council has voted unanimously to postpone First Reading of a traffic bylaw that could have been an initial step towards increasing city parking fines and rates beginni...

Oct 29, 2019 Lethbridge Parking Meter

Lethbridge Duct Cleaning warns of service scam

LETHBRIDGE, AB - If you've received a message about duct cleaning services, you might want to think twice before you accept any offers.Lethbridge Duct Cleaning (LDC) is sending out a warning to its cu...

Oct 29, 2019 Lethbridge Duct Cleaning has sent an advisory to customers following reports of a service scam (Photo supplied by Lethbridge Duct Cleaning)

Telus investing $40-million in Lethbridge for internet speeds, 5G preparations

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Telus is making significant investments into its PureFibre optic network, new cell towers, and enhanced wireless capabilities.They will be spending $16-billion across Alberta between ...

Oct 29, 2019 Telus logo.

Justin Trudeau to meet with Gov. Gen. Payette today to form government

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to meet with Gov. Gen. Julie Payette at Rideau Hall today to confirm that he intends to form government. Trudeau's Liberals won 157 seats in last week's feder...

Olivia Thorington Oct 29, 2019

Police Commission to investigate cost of additional officers

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge City Council has voted unanimously to request the Lethbridge Police Commission investigate, research and identify the costs of adding eight new police officers; two to ever...

Oct 28, 2019 Lethbridge Police Station

$16,000 bicycle stolen in south Lethbridge

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge Police are asking for the public's help in finding a custom-made, high-end bike.A homeowner on the 3100 block of Parkside Drive South told police that, at around 4:00 pm on...

Oct 28, 2019 The Colnago C60 road bike that was reported stolen. (Supplied by Lethbridge Police Service)

Lethbridge volunteers return from disaster recovery work in Bahamas

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Three people from Lethbridge spent 13 days in the Bahamas after the Category 5 Hurricane Dorian wreaked havoc on the islands in late August and early September.According to official e...

Oct 28, 2019 Shown left to right: Eric Foster, Leah Parker, Nolan Meyer. (Lethbridge News Now)

90-day sentence for Lethbridge man in connection with 2017 ALERT Medicine Hat drug bust

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A 29-year-old Lethbridge man will spend 90 days in jail after pleading guilty to one charge of possession for the purpose of trafficking- in connection with what ALERT called the larg...

Oct 28, 2019 Photo of drugs and cash seized by ALERT in 2017