The Alberta group, Friends of Medicare, is behind a series of rallies tomorrow, including the Bridge City. FOM is calling on the federal government to stop Alberta's Bill 11 from becoming law. It believes the legislation will jeopardize universal public Medicare in the province, creating two tiers.Rallies are planned f...

Another opportunity is coming up for residents and businesses in the Town of Raymond to talk about the community's future progress.The town, as you may know, is looking at whether it needs to update its municipal development plan.While there is an online survey that can be filled out, an upcoming in-person session is a...

Weather permitting, water repairs are expected to continue Monday along a stretch of 13th Street North in the city. Both northbound lanes and one of the southbound lane on 13th will be shut down, with a detour in effect for northbound traffic. Construction is between 5th and 5A Avenue North with work scheduled to wrap ...

Another Lethbridge-based business is stepping forward to help the hospital foundation's Bringing Hearts Home. Flexahopper Plastics has donated $100,000 towards the building of a new cardiac care centre for the region. President Bill Spenceley describes it as a meaningful way to give back to the community. Spenceley say...

The Alberta group, Friends of Medicare, is behind a series of rallies tomorrow, including the Bridge City. FOM is calling on the federal government to stop Alberta's Bill 11 from becoming law. It believes the legislation will jeopardize universal public Medicare in the province, creating two tiers.Rallies are planned f...

Another opportunity is coming up for residents and businesses in the Town of Raymond to talk about the community's future progress.The town, as you may know, is looking at whether it needs to update its municipal development plan.While there is an online survey that can be filled out, an upcoming in-person session is a...

Weather permitting, water repairs are expected to continue Monday along a stretch of 13th Street North in the city. Both northbound lanes and one of the southbound lane on 13th will be shut down, with a detour in effect for northbound traffic. Construction is between 5th and 5A Avenue North with work scheduled to wrap ...

Another Lethbridge-based business is stepping forward to help the hospital foundation's Bringing Hearts Home. Flexahopper Plastics has donated $100,000 towards the building of a new cardiac care centre for the region. President Bill Spenceley describes it as a meaningful way to give back to the community. Spenceley say...

The federal government is awarding just over $800,000 to the City of Lethbridge for its pathway to Coaldale. The grant, under Ottawa's Adaptation in Action program, is for the building of the 'climate resilient' connection. The project is a partnership between the City, County, Town of Coaldale, and St. Mary River Irri...

Alberta separatists converged outside the legislature in Edmonton on Saturday afternoon ahead of the province's birthday, with many praying, listening to sermons and saying Alberta would be better off without Canada after having joined Confederation 121 years ago."It's the corruption, the lies from out east. I'm j...

Alberta separatists converged outside the legislature in Edmonton on Saturday afternoon ahead of the province's birthday, with many praying, listening to sermons and saying Alberta would be better off without Canada after having joined Confederation 121 years ago."It's the corruption, the lies from out east. I'm j...

Premier Danielle Smith is set to speak in Calgary Sunday at an event marking Alberta Day.Alberta officially became a Canadian province on Sept. 1, 1905.Various festivities are planned this weekend ahead of the province's birthday on Tuesday.Smith's speech at Calgary's Heritage Park is set to come as the province's sepa...

The Alberta government says it's restoring private property rights by removing Water Act approval requirements.Right now, producers say they're facing unnecessary barriers when it comes to how they manage water on their own cropland.That can include everything from pooling water to having a seasonal wetland on their pr...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is set to meet with U.S. officials next week, after recently saying she wants to see Canada double down on diplomacy and avoid any further escalations of their trade war.Smith's press secretary, Sam Blackett, said the premier had a previously planned personal trip to the United States but...

Bylaw officers have seized 97 dogs from a home in northern Alberta.The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo says bylaw officers executed a search warrant at the home in Fort McMurray on Tuesday.It says in a statement that the small-breed dogs were found to be living inside and all were rescued.Charges are pending agai...

Alberta is introducing Canada's first watercraft dip tank at its Dunmore inspection station as the province works to keep invasive aquatic species out of its waterways.The tank uses hot water to treat trailered boats, killing mussels, larvae and other invasive species on hulls, intakes, engines and ballast tanks.The sy...

MONTREAL - The leader of the Coalition Avenir Québec says her party would make it easier for doctors to work in both the public and private sectors if it forms a new government after the Oct. 5 provincial election. Christine Fréchette's promise is a re...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne will meet with his U.S. counterpart on the sidelines of the G20 finance ministers' meetings in North Carolina this week. Champagne's spokesperson John Fragos confirmed in a media statement that the ...

NIAGARA FALLS - Canada's last captive whales are set to leave the country today as the six belugas from Marineland are headed to two aquariums in the United States. The closed Niagara Falls, Ont., tourist attraction is up for sale and the park has said...

FREDERICTON - Canadian author Paris Marx says there's been a renewed interest in his list of alternatives to American technology in the past few weeks. Marx, who hosts the Tech Won't Save Us podcast, maintains a catalogue of email services, mobile pho...

OTTAWA - Family members of the late Barbara Kentner are demanding that the Parole Board of Canada explain why it granted her attacker full parole without first meeting with them. Kentner was walking on a street in Thunder Bay, Ont., with her sister in ...

MONTREAL - Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet has won his civil defamation suit against a woman who accused him of sexual misconduct. Superior Court Justice Martin Castonguay ruled that Paméla Groleau's accusations against the cardinal are unfounded and ord...

BUNIA, Congo (AP) - Congo's authorities said Monday that the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history has topped 6,000 cases with 2,911 deaths. More than 1,360 people have recovered from the virus, in what authorities said was an "encou...

GENEVA (AP) - A suspect has been arrested after a weekend shooting at a rave in northern Switzerland that left one person dead and five wounded, police said Monday. The 43-year-old Swiss citizen was arrested during the night, police in Aa...

MIAMI (AP) - Hurricane Karina strengthened Monday into a powerful Category 4 storm in the Pacific Ocean but isn't threatening land, forecasters said. The storm has intensified quickly since becoming a hurricane Sunday and has been fueled ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - The United Arab Emirates said it intercepted an Iranian drone over its waters Monday, an attack that comes after the United States and Iran exchanged fire over the weekend for the first time in a month. ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Hak Ja Han, the 83-year-old leader of the Unification Church, was sentenced to two years in prison on Monday for bribing the wife of ousted conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol and other corruption charges. The S...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Rescuers raced Monday to free hundreds of workers believed to be trapped in tunnels at hydropower sites that were buried in mud by catastrophic flooding on the Nepal-China border, as the death toll climbed and increasingly despe...