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Say No to Plastic: Environment Lethbridge marks Environment Week

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Communities across Canada are celebrating Environment Week. In Southern Alberta, Environment Lethbridge (EL) is holding a range of activities to mark the occasion. "Environment Week i...

Andrew Snook Jun 03, 2019 Environment Week is on until June 9, 2019. (Photo courtesy Environment Lethbridge on Facebook)

2020 Alberta Summer Games countdown to kick-off with community BBQ

LETHBRIDGE, AB - While the games themselves are still more than a year away, the 2020 Alberta Summer Games are coming to Lethbridge, and the host society wants to start building excitement as soon as ...

Jun 03, 2019 Members of the host society pose with the Summer Games banner

Fort Macleod RCMP investigating liquor store theft

FORT MACLEOD, AB - Mounties in Fort Macleod are seeking the public's help in identifying suspects in a liquor store robbery.In a release, Fort Macleod RCMP said they received a report of shoplifting f...

Jun 03, 2019 Surveillance photos provided by the Fort Macleod RCMP

Project Paintbrush to celebrate milestone during its 16th year

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A local volunteer group will have a lot to celebrate this year: it's 200th project. Project Paintbrush has been around for 16-years and Volunteer Lethbridge Executive Director Diana S...

Olivia Thorington Jun 03, 2019 Project Paintbrush Volunteers, Photo Courtesy: Project Paintbrush

High Level fire evacuees soon allowed to go home

HIGH LEVEL, Alta. - Community officials say thousands of fire evacuees from High Level, Alta., as well as the surrounding areas of Mackenzie County and several Dene Tha' First Nation communities will ...

Jun 02, 2019 The Canadian Press

Province halts funding for supervised consumption sites pending review

EDMONTON -- The United Conservatives are following through on a campaign promise to halt funding for supervised consumption sites in Alberta until a review into the merits of the practice has been com...

Olivia Thorington Jun 02, 2019 Temporary overdose prevention site in Red Deer daily, according to Turning Point. (rdnewsNOW file photo)

Three confirmed dead in plane crash outside of Irvine

CYPRESS COUNTY, AB - Three people are confirmed to have died after a small plane that took off from the Medicine Hat Airport on Saturday crashed into a field outside of Irvine. According to the Transp...

Olivia Thorington Jun 02, 2019 Photo courtesy of Sylvia Hollstein

Cardston RCMP confirm missing youth found safe and sound

CARDSTON -- ***Up-Date -- RCMP report a teen who was missing since Saturday (June 1) night, has been located and is safe.Zachary Bevans was last seen at approximately 7:00-pm, leaving his Leavitt area...

Jun 02, 2019 Missing teen photo released by RCMP

More Northern residents placed on Evacuation Alert as wildfires continue to burn

GRANDE PRAIRIE -- Another 12 thousand residents in Mackenzie County have been placed on evacuation alert due to wildfires in the North Peace.In a news release put out last night, the province says the...

Jun 02, 2019 Photo courtesy Alberta Agriculture and Forestry

Helen Schuler inviting community to learn about Snake Safety in Lethbridge

LETHBRIDGE, AB - As rattlesnakes continue to move to different areas in Lethbridge, moving further from their hibernacula, the Friends of the Helen Schuler Nature Centre Society want to make sure the ...

Jun 01, 2019