COALDALE, AB - The Town of Coaldale is introducing a new holiday festival in 2024.Coaldale Winter Fest is a month-long festival coming to the community that will be host to a series of holiday-themed events, from markets to live performances.The festival will officially begin on November 29 with a familiar event: the 2...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The University of Lethbridge Pronghorns are bringing back their safe ride program, now with a new name.The program, now called Luxie Lifts, returns after an absence in 2023 due to challenges in securing insurance in time to run the program.Neil Langevin, Executive Director for Pronghorn Athletics says ...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge Police have charged a man with aggravated assault in connection to an incident at a bar.On October 26, 2024, police responded to a report that a 19-year-old male had been knocked out by a security guard. The guard was contracted to work at an event hosted by a licensed establishment along th...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - It was a spectacular showcase of goaltending for the Lethbridge Hurricanes on Wednesday, October 30 as they took down the Swift Current Broncos 3-1.The game was a rematch of the Friday before, when the Hurricanes traveled to Swift Current but fell 4-1.In the first period, the Hurricanes offensive attac...

The Pathways Alliance group of oilsands companies has issued a request for proposals to pipe manufacturers for the massive carbon capture and storage network it wants to build in northern Alberta.The CEO of Imperial Oil Ltd., one of the six oilsands majors behind the proposed $16.5-billion project, provided the update ...

EDMONTON - Alberta's top court has dismissed a Crown appeal of the sentence handed to an Ontario truck driver convicted in the 2011 death of a woman found in an Edmonton hotel bathtub. Cindy Gladue, a 36-year-old Métis and Cree woman, bled to death in the tub in 2011. A jury found Bradley Barton not guilty in 20...

The United Conservative Party of Alberta will take centre stage at their Annual General Meeting in Red Deer this weekend.The convention, that begins on Friday and runs through Saturday at Westerner Park, is claimed by the party to be "the largest political convention in Canadian history," with at least 5,500 ...

The provincial government is proposing changes to the Early Learning and Child Care Amendment Act, 2024, designed to help ensure child safety by strengthening its ability to hold non-compliant providers accountable and speed up its ability to address issues in care.The amendments would also allow the child-care licensi...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - It was a spectacular showcase of goaltending for the Lethbridge Hurricanes on Wednesday, October 30 as they took down the Swift Current Broncos 3-1.The game was a rematch of the Friday before, when the Hurricanes traveled to Swift Current but fell 4-1.In the first period, the Hurricanes offensive attac...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Lethbridge Hurricanes came out of their two-game weekend with a win and a loss.Friday, October 25 vs. Swift Current BroncosOn Friday night, the Hurricanes traveled to Swift Current to take on the Broncos, looking to return to the win column after a loss to the Calgary Hitmen the previous weekend.Th...

The injury-depleted Medicine Hat Tigers have added some help at forward by signing former South Albert Hockey Academy player Carter Cunningham.It was announced the 18-year-old from Lethbridge, put pen to paper on a Western Hockey League Scholarship and Development Agreement on Thursday.Cunningham started the season wit...

BOUNDARY CREEK, AB - The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) will work to protect an area of pristine grasslands near the Canada-U.S. border from development.Colleen and Dale Adams have signed an agreement with the NCC to conserve their 128-hectare (315-acre) cattle ranch from any future subdivisions, drainage or cultiv...

COALDALE, AB - A major agricultural producer has made a move in southern Alberta.Bayer CropScience Inc. has announced that it will be acquiring HyTech Production Ltd., a canola treating and packaging facility just north of Coaldale.Bayer President and CEO Antoine Bernet says, as they look to increase their canola busin...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Although it has been a challenging season for farmers in the region due to weather, many have experienced higher-than-average yields.That is according to the latest Alberta Crop Report, which looks at the conditions as of September 24, 2024.It says 85.7 per cent of crops in the southern region have bee...

VANCOUVER - A B.C. Supreme Court judge has granted an order to establish a buffer zone around one of the province's largest Sikh temples this Saturday in advance of expected confrontations between protesters and Indian consular officials. The Khalsa Diwan Society, which runs the Ross Street Gurdwara, says in court docu...

EDMONTON - Alberta's top court has dismissed a Crown appeal of the sentence handed to an Ontario truck driver convicted in the 2011 death of a woman found in an Edmonton hotel bathtub. Cindy Gladue, a 36-year-old Métis and Cree woman, bled to death in the tub in 2011. A jury found Bradley Barton not guilty in 20...

MONTREAL - A Quebec civil rights group is suing the office of the registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada because of the high court's refusal to translate its historic decisions into French. Droits collectifs Québec says it filed an application today in Federal Court after failing to get the office of the regis...

MONTREAL - A museum dedicated to revered Formula One driver Gilles Villeneuve is racing to find its stolen bronze statue of the Quebec speedster before it gets melted down for cash. Alain Bellehumeur, general manager of the Gilles Villeneuve Museum, says the 5 foot 3 inches tall statue was apparently sawed off at the a...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says a change to the law that limited the right of an accused person to a preliminary inquiry does not apply to some ongoing cases. The top court's ruling today helps clarify who is eligible for a preliminary inquiry - a judicial hearing to see if there is enough evidence for a tria...

VANCOUVER - Ports in British Columbia are waking up to the possibility of another provincewide labour disruption as employers say they will lock out members of the union representing more than 700 foremen after it served a strike notice. The BC Maritime Employers Association says in a statement that it has issued a for...

CALI, Colombia (AP) - Delegates came to an agreement late Friday at the United Nations conference on biodiversity to establish a subsidiary body that will include Indigenous peoples in future talks and decisions on nature conservation. The COP16 summit hosted in Cali, Colombia, was a follow-up to the historic 2022 acco...

CALI, Colombia (AP) - Delegates came to an agreement late Friday at the United Nations conference on biodiversity to establish a subsidiary body that will include Indigenous peoples in future talks and decisions on nature conservation. The COP16 summit hosted in Cali, Colombia, was a follow-up to the historic 2022 acco...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A federal jury on Friday convicted a former Kentucky police detective of using excessive force on Breonna Taylor during a botched 2020 drug raid that left her dead. The 12-member jury returned the late night verdict after clearing Brett Hankison earlier in the evening on a charge that he used exc...