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Grants given to Stitch It Forward Lethbridge & Taber Lost Paws

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Field Law firm has announced the winners of its 7th Annual Community Fund Program.Five non-profits in Southern Alberta are receiving funding to go towards their general operations...

Jul 05, 2019 Taber Lost Paws Society and Stitch It Forward Society of Lethbridge

June unemployment rate down from May’s numbers in Lethbridge-Medicine Hat

OTTAWA, ON - Statistics Canada says the economy lost 2,200 jobs in June compared with the addition of 27,700 jobs in May of 2019. The unemployment rate across Canada rose to 5.5 per cent compared with...

Olivia Thorington Jul 05, 2019

Blood Tribe to get $150M settlement in historic claim over Crown mismanagement of the reserve cattle

CALGARY -- Residents of Canada's largest reserve are to receive $150 million by the end of summer to settle a historic claim that the federal government devastated the Blood Tribe's cattle industry mo...

Olivia Thorington Jul 05, 2019 Blood Tribe graphics

Alberta to hold $2.5-million public inquiry into funding for oilsands foes

CALGARY - The Alberta government is holding a public inquiry into funding of environmental campaigns it says have prevented the province's resources from getting to new customers.Premier Jason Kenney ...

Jul 05, 2019 Jason Kenney -- The Canadian Presss

Provincial politicians asking Albertans to support farmers, ranchers

EDMONTON -- The provincial government is calling on people to support Alberta farmers and ranchers as they deal with trade disputes.Provincial politicians were joined by industry representatives from ...

Jul 05, 2019 Ag Minister Devin Dreeshen Premier Jason Kenney and representatives of beef, pork and canola producers. Photo supplied by the province.

Off-highway vehicles now allowed on Lethbridge County roads

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge County Council has adopted a bylaw to allow off-highway vehicles (OHV) to be used on three-digit numbered highways for faming operations.Reeve Lorne Hickey says quite a few...

Jul 04, 2019 Lethbridge County Reeve Lorne Hickey. (Lethbridge News Now)

Man caught inside Lethbridge Police bike compound

LETHBRIDGE, AB - It's not quite like allegedly stealing a cell phone and trying to sell it back to an undercover police officer in the police station "Safe Exchange Zone", but it's close. Lethbridge P...

Jul 04, 2019 Lethbridge Police Station

Irrigation system fails at Legacy Park in north Lethbridge

LETHBRIDGE, AB - City crews will be bringing in a temporary irrigation system at Legacy Park in north Lethbridge, after a serious failure in the regular system this spring rendered it completed unable...

Jul 04, 2019 A portion of the grass at the new Legacy Park in north Lethbridge

Lethbridge woman charged with assault causing bodily harm

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge Police have charged a 32-year-old woman in connection with an assault on a senior citizen.LPS reported that on July 3, at around 4:50 p.m., a 64-year-old man was in the fro...

Jul 04, 2019

Wiebe's Deli celebrating 100th anniversary in Coaldale in 2019

COALDALE, AB - Although it was not always known as Wiebe's Deli, the store has been around in one capacity or another for a full century and has established a legacy in Coaldale like few others could ...

Jul 04, 2019 The interior of Wiebe's Deli in Coaldale. (Lethbridge News Now)