LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge Police have charged a male and female in connection with a carjacking incident.On November 10, 2024 just after 11:30 p.m., police responded to a verbal altercation between a male and female outside a business along the 400 block of Mayor Magrath Drive South.When approached, police say the ma...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - It is a new, unique way to give back.Light the World Giving Machines are bringing two special vending machines to Park Place Mall in Lethbridge.Between November 15 and December 4, 2024, essential items can be purchased from a Light the World Giving Machine to help those in need in Lethbridge or through...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - It was a blink-and-you-miss-it moment early Wednesday morning as a meteor dashed across the sky.Several residents of Lethbridge noted the meteor at approximately 6:30 a.m. on November 13, 2024.One person, Debra Pahtayken, caught it on her security camera.A meteor was seen early Wednesday morning, Novem...

Professional Bull Riders (PBR) Canada's elite Cup Series will return to Lethbridge for the seventh consecutive season in 2025.PBR Canada's Cup Series regularly features Canada's best riders alongside some of the organization's top international athletes, squaring off against bulls from across the nation.In 2025, the Th...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge Police have charged a male and female in connection with a carjacking incident.On November 10, 2024 just after 11:30 p.m., police responded to a verbal altercation between a male and female outside a business along the 400 block of Mayor Magrath Drive South.When approached, police say the ma...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - It is a new, unique way to give back.Light the World Giving Machines are bringing two special vending machines to Park Place Mall in Lethbridge.Between November 15 and December 4, 2024, essential items can be purchased from a Light the World Giving Machine to help those in need in Lethbridge or through...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - It was a blink-and-you-miss-it moment early Wednesday morning as a meteor dashed across the sky.Several residents of Lethbridge noted the meteor at approximately 6:30 a.m. on November 13, 2024.One person, Debra Pahtayken, caught it on her security camera.A meteor was seen early Wednesday morning, Novem...

Professional Bull Riders (PBR) Canada's elite Cup Series will return to Lethbridge for the seventh consecutive season in 2025.PBR Canada's Cup Series regularly features Canada's best riders alongside some of the organization's top international athletes, squaring off against bulls from across the nation.In 2025, the Th...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Lethbridge Police Service (LPS) is asking for your help in locating a wanted person.They say Layla Grace Whelan, 36, was previously charged with numerous offences in connection to a break and enter on July 5, 2024. The suspects were said to have been in possession of firearms.Shortly after she was ...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - More than 900 City of Lethbridge employees have a new collective agreement.At their meeting on Tuesday, November 12, 2024, Lethbridge City Council ratified an agreement with the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 70. Members of the City's largest union will see an 11 per cent wage increase...

An Alberta Crown corporation says it recently experienced "network issues" after it was the target of a cyberattack. Dwayne Brunner, a spokesman for Alberta Innovates, wouldn't confirm when the issues began, but said an investigation is underway and all network problems have been resolved."Alberta Innova...

Officials at Calgary's zoo are mourning the loss of a two-year-old female lowland gorilla.Officials at the Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo say Eyare died after being injured while being moved Tuesday."They have great personalities. She was fun loving, playful. Just a delight," said Colleen Baird, director of ani...

CALGARY - Margaret Atwood has been called prescient - particularly when it comes to her famous 1985 dystopia "The Handmaid's Tale" and the recent rollback of reproductive rights in the United States - but the renowned Canadian author says her predictive powers failed her ahead of last week's U.S. election, wh...

The Alberta and Canadian Governments are providing funding to expand 4-H programs across the province. Through Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership (Sustainable CAP) funding, the governments of Canada and Alberta are investing more than $731,000 over five years for three programs. The Intro to 4-H program, the...

The biggest increase in jobs this past month in Canada happened in Alberta.That is according to Statistics Canada, which says Alberta experienced a growth in employment of 13,200 in October.Approximately 8,200 of those were for full-time positions, while there was also another 5,000 part-time jobs.This helped to reduce...

SUFFIELD, Alta. - A pair of 105-mm howitzers bark constantly as they turn plywood tank targets into kindling kilometres away on the windswept landscape of one of Canada's largest military bases. It's a once-a-month weekend training session at Canadian Forces Base Suffield, 260 kilometres southeast of Calgary, for 158 m...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Rent inflation to slow, Desjardins predicts The rate at which Canadian rental prices are increasing should slow in the coming years as the government's plan to cut back immigration numbers takes hold, a new report from Desjardins ...

OTTAWA - The rate at which Canadian rental prices are increasing should slow in the coming years as the government's plan to cut back immigration numbers takes hold, a new report from Desjardins says. "Our outlook is for a slowdown in the pace of rent inflation over the next few years, in line with a rising unempl...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to leave this afternoon for the APEC summit in Lima, Peru, followed by the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Both summits aim to improve the multilateral institutions that have drawn skepticism from U.S. president-elect Donald Trump. In Peru, Trudeau will take part in m...

WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump's promise to slap an across-the-board tariff of at least 10 per cent on all imports including from Canada is unlikely to apply to Canadian oil, energy experts are predicting. The threat of the tariff is causing a lot of concern north of the border, where the Canadian Chamber of...

VANCOUVER - A proposed class-action lawsuit against the Canadian government says Indigenous people removed from their communities and placed in group homes beginning in the 1950s suffered physical, sexual and psychological abuse that "was commonplace, condoned and, arguably, encouraged." The Federal Court law...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland isn't showing signs of worry that the U.S. can now launch a trade challenge against the Liberal government's controversial digital services tax. The Liberals are slapping a three-per-cent tax on the Canadian revenues of digital giants, which will affect major U.S. tech compan...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans have won enough seats to control the U.S. House, completing the party's sweep into power and securing their hold on U.S. government alongside President-elect Donald Trump. A House Republican victory in Arizona, alongside a win in slow-counting California earlier Wednesday, gave the GOP the...

PHOENIX (AP) - Republican Rep. Juan Ciscomani won reelection to a U.S. House seat in southeastern Arizona in a rematch that pitted him against the Democrat he narrowly beat two years ago. Ciscomani defeated Democrat Kirsten Engel in the race for Arizona's 6th Congressional District, which runs from Tucson east to the N...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans have won enough seats to control the U.S. House, completing the party's sweep into power and securing their hold on U.S. government alongside President-elect Donald Trump. A House Republican victory in Arizona, alongside a win in slow-counting California earlier Wednesday, gave the GOP the...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lankans are voting in a parliamentary election Thursday that is key for the country's new, Marxist-leaning president to consolidate his party's power and follow through on promises of economic recovery. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake won the presidential election on Sept. 21 in a victo...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lankans are voting in a parliamentary election Thursday that is key for the country's new, Marxist-leaning president to consolidate his party's power and follow through on promises of economic recovery. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake won the presidential election on Sept. 21 in a victo...

SAO PAULO (AP) - At least one explosion outside Brazil's Supreme Court killed one person and forced the justices and staff to evacuate the building in the capital of Brasilia, police and firefighters said. A police statement said an artifact exploded outside the court without providing more details. Local firefighters ...