The Piyami Health Centre ambulatory clinic in Picture Butte will be temporarily closed Saturday, January 25, 2025.Alberta Health Services says the closure is due to an unexpected clinical personnel shortage and inability to secure coverage.The clinic will reopen Sunday, January 26 with regular weeknight clinic hours fr...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Lethbridge Police Service has concluded Operation Cold Start for 2025.The initiative is an awareness campaign organized annually by the Alberta Association of Chiefs of Police. In it, police monitor for vehicles that are left running and unattended, and aim to educate the public on the risks involv...

A post-secondary school in southern Alberta has announced layoffs and the closure of a department that has served newcomers to Canada for over 50 years.Lethbridge Polytechnic President and CEO Brad Donaldson says he is "saddened" to announce that the English Language Centre will close, effective June 30, 2025...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge Family Services (LFS) is holding its' first ever fundraising event this year with the Spring to Light Benefit Gala. All proceeds from the function will go towards health and wellness programming for clients in LFS' DaCapo Disability Services Department, and a mental health and wellness navig...

The Piyami Health Centre ambulatory clinic in Picture Butte will be temporarily closed Saturday, January 25, 2025.Alberta Health Services says the closure is due to an unexpected clinical personnel shortage and inability to secure coverage.The clinic will reopen Sunday, January 26 with regular weeknight clinic hours fr...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Lethbridge Police Service has concluded Operation Cold Start for 2025.The initiative is an awareness campaign organized annually by the Alberta Association of Chiefs of Police. In it, police monitor for vehicles that are left running and unattended, and aim to educate the public on the risks involv...

A post-secondary school in southern Alberta has announced layoffs and the closure of a department that has served newcomers to Canada for over 50 years.Lethbridge Polytechnic President and CEO Brad Donaldson says he is "saddened" to announce that the English Language Centre will close, effective June 30, 2025...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge Family Services (LFS) is holding its' first ever fundraising event this year with the Spring to Light Benefit Gala. All proceeds from the function will go towards health and wellness programming for clients in LFS' DaCapo Disability Services Department, and a mental health and wellness navig...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The City of Lethbridge has opened up funding for non-profit community projects.The Community Capital Projects Grant (CCPG) prioritizes projects that promote inclusivity, diversity, equity and accessibility in recreational, educational and wellbeing opportunities.The grant has two funding streams: Strea...

A local man is now $100,000 richer thanks to LOTTO MAX.The Western Canada Lottery Corporation (WCLC) says Les Kesler won the top EXTRA prize on the November 29, 2024 draw.He purchased the winning ticket from the Savers Convenience Store in Lethbridge at 1904 13 Avenue North."I scanned the ticket in-store, saw all ...

Alberta Canola says that growers attending the organization's annual general meeting in Red Deer Wednesday approved an increase in the service charge.It will go to &1.75 a tonne as of August 1 this year, pending Marketing Council approval. It had been $1 per tonne. A release says the increase comes after what Alber...

Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi has been acclaimed as the party's candidate in Edmonton-Strathcona.Nenshi didn't face any competition for the nomination and, if elected, would become the third NDP leader to represent the riding.It's the latest hurdle for the former Calgary mayor to get a seat in the legislature after ...

Another disability advocacy organization says its funding has been cut by the Alberta government.Trish Bowman, chief executive of Inclusion Alberta, said Wednesday the government informed her earlier this month it was cutting some of the grant funding that the group has received for decades.She said the cut totals more...

Alberta Blue Cross is challenging Albertans to embrace the cold and participate in Winter Walk Day on Wednesday, Feb. 5. On Winter Walk Day, everyone is encouraged to walk at least 15 minutes outside in an effort to promote and inspire a healthy culture across the province. "Winter Walk Day is a great initiative t...

Students in Alberta are being heralded as having the highest levels of financial literacy in the country.The 2022 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) saw 20 countries, including eight Canadian provinces, take standardized tests for financial literacy.The results show that 15-year-olds in Alberta perfo...

National Non-Smoking Week is underway, and above all, it aims to underscore the cold, hard fact that 46,000 Canadians are dying from smoking-related causes each year.As the observance happens Jan. 19-25, and beyond, the Council of Chief Medical Officers of Health (CCMOH) continues to be concerned specifically, it says,...

OTTAWA - Former central banker Mark Carney is set to add another big endorsement to his growing pile of backers as Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne is expected to announce his endorsement today. Two sources who weren't authorized to discuss it publicly, tell The Canadian Press Carney and Champagne w...

OTTAWA - On Monday the world will mark eight decades since the liberation of Auschwitz, the notorious Nazi extermination camps where more than a million people, most of them Jews, were murdered during the Second World War. But as world leaders and Auschwitz survivors prepare to gather at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial...

HALIFAX - The Royal Canadian Navy says a sailor has died in the Bedford Basin after a boat capsized. The Navy says two sailors were operating a rigid-hull inflatable boat in the Halifax-area bay when it overturned and capsized around 10 p.m. on Friday. It says a rescue effort by the Joint Rescue and Coordination Centre...

QUÉBEC - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has met with the families of six men who were killed at a Quebec City mosque, days before the anniversary of the 2017 attack. Eight years ago, on Jan. 29, 2017, Alexandre Bissonnette killed six men at the Centre culturel islamique du Québec and this year the centre h...

OTTAWA - Liberal leadership hopeful Mark Carney secured two more endorsements from cabinet on Saturday. Defence Minister Bill Blair backed Carney in a statement on X, while Nate Erskine-Smith hosted an event for the former Bank of Canada governor in his Toronto riding. MP Adam van Koeverden also endorsed Carney on Satu...

MONTREAL - Quebec provincial police have opened a homicide investigation after a death in the Montérégie region of the province on Saturday. Police say they were called to a home in Saint-Anicet, Que., around 45 kilometres southwest of Montreal, at about 9 a.m. Police spokesperson Camille Savoie says the ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Jannik Sinner claimed his second consecutive Australian Open championship on Sunday, never facing a single break point and using his complete game to outplay and frustrate Alexander Zverev for a 6-3, 7-6 (4), 6-3 victory in the final. Sinner, a 23-year-old Italian, is the youngest man to lea...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korean prosecutors on Sunday indicted the impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his imposition of martial law last month, news reports said. Yonhap news agency reported that the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office indicted Yoon over rebellion in connection with his Dec. 3 decree ...

The smiling face of President Alexander Lukashenko gazed out from campaign posters across Belarus on Sunday as the country held an orchestrated election virtually guaranteed to give the 70-year-old autocrat yet another term on top of his three decades in power. "Needed!" the posters proclaim beneath a photo o...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Some 70 people were killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan, the chief of the World Health Organization said Sunday, part of a series of attacks coming as the African nation's civil war escalated in recent days. The attack on the ...

The smiling face of President Alexander Lukashenko gazed out from campaign posters across Belarus on Sunday as the country held an orchestrated election virtually guaranteed to give the 70-year-old autocrat yet another term on top of his three decades in power. "Needed!" the posters proclaim beneath a photo o...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Some 70 people have been killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan, the chief of the World Health Organization said Sunday. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus offered the figure in a post on the social platform X. Offic...