Category Archives: Post to Social
Cottonwood Park set to temporarily close for improvement work
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Effective Monday, September 9, Lethbridge's Cottonwood Park will be closed.The move is only temporary, however, as crews will be working on improvements around the space.Improvements ...
Sep 06, 2019 Cottonwood Park Map (City of Lethbridge)
Lethbridge-Medicine Hat’s unemployment rate rises in August
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The jobless rate went up in the Lethbridge area last month.In August, the unemployment rate for the Lethbridge-Medicine Hat economic region was listed at 7.1 per cent, up from 6.4 per...
Sep 06, 2019
Canada sees gains in part-time, youth employment as wage growth slows
OTTAWA - Canada's economy posted a job surge last month of 81,100 net new positions, the bulk of which were part time, in the services sector and picked up by young people.Statistics Canada says that ...
Sep 06, 2019 The Canadian Press
‘Simply spectacular’: Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital promises new chapter for health care in Saskatchewan
It truly is a made in Saskatchewan vision come to life.Nearly five years after a historic groundbreaking, the Jim Pattison Children's Hospital is open and many say it will usher in a new, state-of-the...
Sep 06, 2019 An example of a pediatric intensive care room. It has space for families to stay with their children overnight. (Tyler Marr/battlefordsNOW Staff)
Man convicted of beating partner, keeping her in RV for two days, sentenced in Lethbridge Provincial Court
LETHBRIDGE, AB - A 53-year-old man who has five prior domestic assault convictions involving three different partners, and a criminal record dating back to 1980, has been convicted again of multiple o...
Sep 05, 2019 Lethbridge Courthouse
Future of HALO Air Ambulance Program "bleak", officials call for funding
LETHBRIDGE COUNTY, AB - A group of mayors and reeves from Southern Alberta will be asking the provincial government to fund the HALO Air Ambulance program.A helicopter based out of Medicine Hat is use...
Sep 05, 2019 HALO Air Ambulance. (Supplied by HALO Rescue)
Winners of Lethbridge's Allied Arts Council Excellence Awards announced
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Artists, organizations, and businesses are being recognized for their contribution to the arts in the city.The Allied Arts Council of Lethbridge has announced the following 2019 Allie...
Sep 05, 2019 Allied Arts Council of Lethbridge logo.
Lethbridge College Kodiaks cross-country team prepares for new season
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The most successful athletics program in Lethbridge College history looks to repeat last season's victories.Over the 2018 season, the Kodiaks women's team won an ACAC (Alberta College...
Sep 05, 2019 Women’s runner Sophia Nowicki, crossing the finish line at the 2018 CCAA national championships (Photo by: Martin Bazyl, courtesy Lethbridge College)
8th annual Reuse Rendezvous set to go this week
LETHBRIDGE, AB - School is back in session and fall is right around the corner.That creates an ideal team to do some cleaning. With that, the 8th annual Reuse Rendezvous is set to go in Lethbridge Sep...
Sep 05, 2019 Reuse Rendezvous is one from Friday, Sept. 6 to Sunday, Sept. 8 (Photo courtesy Environment Lethbridge)
'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' UK PM loses brother from gov't
LONDON - "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" a 2000 Coen Brothers film starring George Clooney is a title that could be going through embattled British Prime Minister Johnson's mind. Britain's toxic divide o...
Sep 05, 2019