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22 confirmed tornadoes across Alberta so far this year

LETHBRIDGE -- In what has been the busiest tornado season in the past 20 years across the Wildrose province, as a report from Environment Canada shows that 22 tornadoes have touched down so far in 201...

Aug 10, 2019 July 14 tornado near Crossfield (Photo: Kyle Brittain)

Drop’n Beats music program gives at-risk youth a safe place to collaborate

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The goal is to create an environment of collaboration.The non-profit Drop'n Beats program operates out of the McMan Youth, Family and Community Services Association and is a rebrand o...

Aug 10, 2019 Casey Ling (left) and Jayme Firstrider in the Drop'n Beats studio (Lethbridge News Now)

Lethbridge, Coaldale, Pincher Creek athletes competing at Western Canada Summer Games this weekend

SWIFT CURRENT, SK - The 2019 Western Canada Summer Games are underway and more than 1,700 people from Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and the territories are joining are taking part.This includes 341...

Aug 09, 2019 The opening ceremony for the 2019 Western Canada Summer Games. (Supplied by City of Swift Current)

Robert John Sheppard Sentenced to six years in prison in connection with west Lethbridge shooting

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A 34-year-old Lethbridge man, convicted of eight offences, including discharging a firearm at a person with the intent to wound, maim or disfigure, carrying a concealed weapon, pointi...

Aug 09, 2019 Lethbridge Courthouse (Lethbridge News NOW)

North-side neighborhood takes action for their own safety

LETHBRIDGE -- While City Council prepares for a Town Hall to discuss the ever-evolving drug and crime issues in the city, residents of one north-side neighborhood have had enough and are taking action...

Aug 09, 2019 Residents gather for a meeting in a north-side neigborhood - LNN

Indigenous public artwork unanimously approved by Lethbridge City Council

LETHBRIDGE, AB - City Council has unanimously approved $65,000 to commission an indigenous public artwork display at the Main Library Branch. At Monday's meeting, council heard that in the spring of 2...

Aug 09, 2019 Location for Indigenous Artwork at the Lethbridge Public Library's main branch (Photo Credit: City of Lethbridge)

Canadian Blood Services adding plasma collection site to Lethbridge

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Only three Canadian cities are getting brand new "proof-of-concept" plasma collection facilities.In addition to Lethbridge, they will be set up in Kelowna, B.C. and Sudbury, Ontario. ...

Aug 09, 2019 The Canadian Blood Services clinic in Lethbridge. (Lethbridge News Now)

Lethbridge-Medicine Hat jobless rate makes slight jump from June to July

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Unemployment numbers for July have been released, and the Lethbridge-Medicine Hat economic region's rate took a small leap from June.The jobless rate in the region was 6.4 percent las...

Aug 09, 2019 Photo: The Canadian Press

Canadian wage growth climbs to highest mark since 2009, but economy sheds jobs

OTTAWA - Canada lost 24,200 jobs last month and its unemployment rate moved up to 5.7 per cent to give the economy its weakest three-month stretch of job creation since early 2018.On the positive side...

Aug 09, 2019 Photo: The Canadian Press

Review of Alberta Health Services underway, government invites public feedback

LETHBRIDGE, AB - You can help to shape the future of Alberta Health Services.The United Conservative government has hired independent contractor Ernst and Young to complete "the first comprehensive re...

Aug 09, 2019