LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Lethbridge Police Service is warning the public of a cougar sighting on the west side of the city.Police received reports of a cougar sighting north of the University of Lethbridge along Whoop Up Drive on May 18, 2024, around 1 p.m.Fish and Wildlife officers have been called in to assist.READ MORE:...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Here is a breakdown of some of the top stories from Lethbridge News Now for May 12 to May 18, 2024. PROPERTY TAXESAn increase to property taxes was approved in Lethbridge.READ MORE: Property tax hikes approved in LethbridgeTRAINING MORE DOCTORSThe University of Lethbridge and University of Calgary are ...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Business owners and residents in downtown are advised of upcoming construction work in the area. The City of Lethbridge says work will begin the week of May 27, 2024.A summary of the planned activities is as follows:7 Street South: 5 Avenue to 6 AvenueParking area upgrades and resurfacing: Crews will s...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - There are plenty of events this long weekend, and Lethbridge News Now has the details.Food Truck Fridays and Vendor Market - May 17, 2024Food Truck Fridays returns to Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden on Friday. The trucks and market will bet at the garden every Friday until mid September.Dan Duvall - May 17-...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Lethbridge Police Service is warning the public of a cougar sighting on the west side of the city.Police received reports of a cougar sighting north of the University of Lethbridge along Whoop Up Drive on May 18, 2024, around 1 p.m.Fish and Wildlife officers have been called in to assist.READ MORE:...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Here is a breakdown of some of the top stories from Lethbridge News Now for May 12 to May 18, 2024. PROPERTY TAXESAn increase to property taxes was approved in Lethbridge.READ MORE: Property tax hikes approved in LethbridgeTRAINING MORE DOCTORSThe University of Lethbridge and University of Calgary are ...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Business owners and residents in downtown are advised of upcoming construction work in the area. The City of Lethbridge says work will begin the week of May 27, 2024.A summary of the planned activities is as follows:7 Street South: 5 Avenue to 6 AvenueParking area upgrades and resurfacing: Crews will s...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - There are plenty of events this long weekend, and Lethbridge News Now has the details.Food Truck Fridays and Vendor Market - May 17, 2024Food Truck Fridays returns to Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden on Friday. The trucks and market will bet at the garden every Friday until mid September.Dan Duvall - May 17-...

Get ready to pitch your tents as the May long weekend marks the start of camping season in Alberta.There are more than 470 provincial parks and recreation areas, including 250 campgrounds, which can accommodate nearly 14,000 campsites. Alberta offers a variety of sites, including those that are reservable, available on...

COALDALE, AB - Residents in a southern Alberta town will soon be able to benefit from a rain barrel rebate program.During its meeting on Monday, May 13, 2024, Coaldale Council voted unanimously to implement the program. It will provide residents and businesses with a 50 per cent rebate on the purchase of a rain barrel,...

Business owners and residents in downtown are advised of upcoming construction work in the area. The City of Lethbridge says work will begin the week of May 27, 2024.A summary of the planned activities is as follows:7 Street South: 5 Avenue to 6 AvenueParking area upgrades and resurfacing: Crews will start asphalt resu...

FORT MCMURRAY, AB - The evacuation order and alert, and the state of emergency has been lifted for the Fort McMurray area.Evacuees from Abasand, Beacon Hill, Prairie Creek, and Grayling Terrace may now return home. Officials say that rainfall in the area and efforts from firefighters have contained the fire on the nort...

The commodity groups that make up Team Alberta Crops have wrote to two provincial ministers outlining concerns over a possible railway strike.The letter to Minister of Transport and Economic Corridors, Devin Dreeshan and Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation, RJ Sigurdson says a strike would be "a serious threat ...

It will be cooler this weekend, but Hatters will still want to keep and eye on where they step. According to Snakes on a Plain founder Sheri Monk, it's snake season."People have been seeing them actually. They've been dispersing from their dens for the past two to three weeks. They don't all leave on the same day,...

Four Calgary homicides from the 1970s have been linked to a serial killer. The RCMP's Historical Homicide Unit (HHU) has been working on the cases, and the RCMP in Alberta has been investigating since their deaths. Eva Dvorak and Patricia McQueen The earliest of the cases dates back to February 14, 1976, when 14-year-o...

Get ready to pitch your tents as the May long weekend marks the start of camping season in Alberta.There are more than 470 provincial parks and recreation areas, including 250 campgrounds, which can accommodate nearly 14,000 campsites. Alberta offers a variety of sites, including those that are reservable, available on...

MONTREAL - It's 2:55 a.m. on a recent evening at Blue Dog bar, in Montreal's Plateau district. A bell rings, the bartender shouts, "last call," and a handful of people wander to the bar for one more drink. Slight variations of this scene occur across the city every night, as bars and venues are prohibited - m...

OTTAWA - A major international report on the safety of artificial intelligence says experts can't agree on the risk the technology poses - and it's unclear whether AI will help or harm us. The report, chaired by Canada's Yoshua Bengio, concludes the "future trajectory of general-purpose AI is remarkably uncertain....

VANCOUVER - Francis Silva watches the blood flow through astraw-like tube in his left arm to a dialysis machine where it's cleaned of toxins and returned to his body through a second tube. The 60-year-old chef endures the four-hour process every Tuesday, Thursday and Sundayat St. Paul's Hospital where a 42-bed unit is ...

Dialysis is one of the most resource-intensive therapies but patients with kidney failure have no other option, except for a kidney transplant. Nephrologists are trying to quantify the waste as they advocate for environmentally sustainable kidney care, noting the lifesaving therapy generates hundreds of litres of wast...

CALGARY - The bodies of four girls and women were found outside Calgary in 1976 and 1977. For nearly 50 years, their killings were unsolved. On Friday, RCMP identified Gary Allen Srery, an American sex offender, as the killer. He died in an Idaho prison in 2011. Here's a look at the police investigation: Feb. 12, 1976:...

OTTAWA - Addictions Minister Ya'ara Saks has rejected Toronto's request to decriminalize the possession of controlled drugs, citing concerns about public safety. More coming. The Canadian Press

Seize the Grey went wire to wire to win the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, giving 88-year-old Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas a seventh victory in the race and ending Mystik Dan's Triple Crown bid. The grey colt took advantage of the muddy track just like Lukas hoped he would, pulling off the upset in a second conse...

Arizona's attorney general says former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been served an indictment in the state's fake elector case alongside 17 other defendants for his role in an attempt to overturn former President Donald Trump's loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes posted the n...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Benny Gantz, a member of Israel's three-man War Cabinet, has threatened to resign from the government if it doesn't adopt a new plan for the war in Gaza, a move that would leave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu more reliant on his far-right allies. His announcement on Saturday escalate...

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - Georgia's president on Saturday vetoed the so-called "Russian law" targeting media that has sparked weeks of mass protests. The law would require media and NGOs to register as "pursuing the interests of a foreign power" if they receive more than 20% of their funding from abro...

PEZINOK, Slovakia (AP) - The man accused of attempting to assassinate Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico made his first court appearance Saturday as the nation's leader remained in serious condition recovering from surgery after surviving multiple gunshots, Slovak state media said. Fico, 59, was attacked as he greeted s...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Someone's plans to harvest dozens of apparent marijuana plants grown on the Wisconsin state Capitol grounds have gone up in smoke. The plants sprouted in a tulip garden outside the Capitol, WMTV-TV reported Thursday. Tatyana Warrick, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Administration, told Th...