The Magrath Irrigation District says the big rain storm, that started over the weekend, did some damage to its infrastructue. As a result, the Town won't be receiving irrigation until at least next week - possibly, next Thursday or Friday when repairs are complete. It's a bit of a setback in that staff were able to get...

New traceability requirements for beef cattle proposed by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency have been shelved. The move followed a large influx of industry opposition with producers calling the new rules too burdensome. Heather Brown, the CFIA's national manager of humane transport and livestock traceability programs...

Fall classes at the U of L are still some 12 weeks away, but Saturday the university is holding something, it calls, Ahead of the Herd. Hannah Thomas is responsible for student orientation, transition, and retention at the school and explains what the annual gathering is all about."Meet the faculty members. Learn ...

Alberta's Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT) behind the arrest of two southern Alberta men following the discovery of cocaine and cash valued at nearly $400,000.In a statement Friday morning, it said its Lethbridge-based organized crime team, with the help of the Lethbridge Police Service, seized the drugs on May 20...

Alberta labour figures for the month of May have been released. According to the Province, there were 2,670,500 people employed Alberta-wide last month, up almost 14,000 from April, and an increase of 104,400 or 4.1 percent from May 2025.Across the country, there was an additional 87,800 jobs created last month.Alberta...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the law will be enforced if First Nations communities engage in civil disobedience over her government's separation referendum. But at an unrelated news conference today, the premier says she hopes it doesn't come to that. On Oct. 19, Albertans will vote on whether they want to stay ...

Alberta's government is eyeing train connections for airports to the downtown cores of its two biggest cities as the first key project of the province's new passenger rail plan. But construction isn't expected to start any time soon, as the government says it will spend $15 million over the next three years to advance ...

Gus Wetter School in Castor, Alberta is now the proud home of a 24/7 publicly accessible SaveStation AED cabinet.AED stands for Automated External Defibrillator, and one could save your life in the case of a sudden cardiac arrest.The one in Castor, in east-central Alberta, is the eighth donated by Action First Aid in t...

A Lethbridge wrestler is among 20 names on Canada's entry into next week's World University Combat Championships in Brazil.Angelina Ellis-Toddington, who currently studies at the University of Calgary, will compete in the 68 kilogram weight class.The team is evenly divided with 10 female and 10 male wrestlers.The event...

Since the Lethbridge Bulls weren't playing baseball on May the 4th, they've decided to hold a Star Wars-themed night, tonight, June the 4th, in their match-up against Fort McMurray. Fans coming to the game tonight are being asked to dress up in their best Princess Leila, Darth Vader, Jedi, or everyone's favourite Wooki...

It was an old-fashioned 'slugfest' at Seaman Stadium in Okotoks Wednesday night as the Lethbridge Bulls got by the Okotoks Dawgs 15-12 in Western Canadian Baseball League action.The game, a make-up from this past Sunday's postponed game in Okotoks, called due to rain.Trailing 5-3 going into the fourth, the Bulls were a...

New traceability requirements for beef cattle proposed by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency have been shelved. The move followed a large influx of industry opposition with producers calling the new rules too burdensome. Heather Brown, the CFIA's national manager of humane transport and livestock traceability programs...

While southern Alberta currently goes through a major rain event, some good news coming in from the province's latest crop report for Region 1.A May 26th survey of producers in the Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Strathmore, and Foremost areas found that close to 95 percent of seeding was complete, a jump of about 15 percent...

The Lethbridge-based group, Farming Smarter, is in its final year of a project that helps farmers measure moisture in their fields.The Smart Irrigation project provides specialized sensors to producers to track the conditions of their soil, but also offers up a five to seven-day model instructing the farmer on the best...

OTTAWA - Canada is temporarily restricting the import of livestock from Texas over concerns about a parasitic fly with flesh-eating larvae. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said animals that are from Texas or were present in the state within 21 days...

The provisions in the Criminal Code related to people found not criminally responsible by reason of mental disorder have resulted in a system that re-victimizes the family of three murdered children, British Columbia Premier David Eby said. The premier...

Three men from the United Kingdom who were extradited to Canada last year to face charges after a deadly confrontation with an Ontario restaurant owner over an unpaid bill pleaded guilty on Friday. The men, who are from the same family, were charged in...

TORONTO - FIFA is clarifying that soccer fans will be allowed to bring disposable water bottles to World Cup matches in Canada and the United States. A FIFA official said the announcement makes its policy clear following backlash about its ban on reusa...

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia man faces 21 weapon and drug possession offences after Canadian border agents discovered a cache of firearms at a Vancouver home. The Canada Border Services Agency says in a news release that Dylan James Kennedy appeared ...

OTTAWA - Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami President Natan Obed says allegations of financial mismanagement and a toxic workplace at the Office of the Commissioner for Indigenous Languages are disheartening, and he hopes the federal government seizes the moment ...

BOSTON (AP) - A federal judge on Friday sided with 20 Democratic states and halted an effort by the Trump administration to force states to comply with a range of conditions to get billions of dollars from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program....

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Los Angeles jury has awarded $176 million to the parents of two young brothers killed in a hit-and-run collision when a California socialite's car struck them in a crosswalk nearly six years ago. The jury found both Rebecca Grossma...

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Far from its European homeland, Bosnia and Herzegovina has zealous fans in the American Midwest as it prepares for its second World Cup. An estimated 60,000-70,000 Bosnians live in St. Louis, with many arriving in the early 1990s durin...