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Free local potatoes up for grabs at annual "Spud Day" east of Coaldale

COALDALE, AB - If you want to get your hands on 20 lbs of free local red potatoes, you can do that on Saturday from 10 a.m. until 12 p.m. at a local farm east of Coaldale. The Potato Growers of Albert...

Aug 16, 2019 Spud Day 2019 (Photo Courtesy: Perry Farms, Potato Growers of Alberta)

Questions remain of how police can handle phone searches with new digital auto insurance system

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Earlier this week, the Government of Alberta announced a new system where drivers can have their car insurance information digitally on their mobile devices rather than uses the stand...

Aug 16, 2019 Lethbridge Police vehicle. (Lethbridge News Now)

Ammonite theft suspect released from custody

LETHBRIDGE, AB - One of two men charged in connection with the theft of a valuable ammonite fossil - July 16, has been released from custody. 26-year old Logan Heavy Shields was released into the cust...

Aug 16, 2019 Lethbridge Courthouse

Social media both a help and hurdle for police investigations

OTTAWA -- Social media can help or hurt police investigations such as the one into three homicides in northern British Columbia, says a criminologist.Frank Cormier, head of the sociology and criminolo...

Aug 16, 2019 Surveilance video of Bryer Schmegelsky and Kam McLeod

Pedestrian suffers minor injuries after being hit by Lethbridge Police vehicle

LETHBRIDGE, AB - At approximately 10:45 pm on Wednesday, August 14th, a police officer was doing patrols on the west side and exited the parking lot of the University Drive Alliance Church.As the mark...

Aug 15, 2019 Lethbridge Police vehicle. (Lethbridge News Now)

Man accused of selling horses for processing receives fine, restitution order

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A 78-year-old man charged in connection with the sale of two horses that were slaughtered at a Fort Macleod facility in April 2018, has pleaded guilty in Lethbridge Provincial Court t...

Aug 15, 2019 Wayne Bernard Jubb leaving the Lethbridge Courthouse Thursday (Lethbridge News NOW)

Panel announced to review Alberta's minimum wage

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Labour and Immigration Minister Jason Copping says an independent panel of experts will review the impacts of the province's minimum wage on the economy.It will consist of nine people...

Aug 15, 2019 Alberta legislature. (Lethbridge News Now)

Crews continue to make discoveries at Dinosaur Provincial Park

Dinosaur Provincial Park, AB - Every year, thousands of tourists pass through Dinosaur Provincial Park.75 million years ago, it was over 50 different species of dinosaurs passing though those same bad...

Aug 15, 2019 Royal Tyrrell Museum crews working at Dinosaur Provincial Park (Photo by Ross Lavigne)

Men twice as likely to smoke pot as women, Statistics Canada says

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says Canadian men are almost twice as likely to use pot as women.New data from the National Cannabis Survey today shows 16 per cent of Canadians over 15 years old report usi...

Aug 15, 2019 Men and pot smoking -- The Canadian Press

New security measures and cannabis policies announced for Whoop-Up Days

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Organizers of next week's Whoop-Up Days festival are implementing a bevy of new policies they believe will help to keep the event safe for all attendees.Exhibition Park COO Mike Warke...

Aug 15, 2019 One of the new entrances to Whoop-Up Days at Exhibition Park. (Lethbridge News Now)