LETHBRIDGE, AB - A Lethbridge high school esports team has claimed victory in an international competition.On Wednesday, June 5, 2024, the Lethbridge Collegiate Institute Samurai won the PlayVS Cup Valorant Grand Finals with a win over the previously undefeated Novi High School Wildcats.The matchup was a best of three ...

CALGARY, AB - The Calgary Stampede has announced who will lead this summer's parade.Owen Crow Shoe will serve as parade marshal, having made a name for himself in Hollywood.He started his career by working as a stunt rider on The Revenant, later appearing in three episodes of Tin Star. Crow Show is currently filming th...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Joe Meli is the highest-ranking judoka in Alberta and has received a new honour. He was awarded an eighth-degree black belt from Judo Canada during a ceremony in Montreal on Sunday, June 9, 2024. He says it was great to be promoted to one of the sport's top ranks, but it was something that should have ...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A new healing garden is now open at the Jack Ady Cancer Centre in Lethbridge.On Friday, June 14, 2024, the Alberta Cancer Foundation and the Jack Ady Cancer Centre unveiled the Amir and Saker Manji Healing Gardens. The new gardens come following a $500,000 donation from the Manji family, in memory of A...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A Lethbridge high school esports team has claimed victory in an international competition.On Wednesday, June 5, 2024, the Lethbridge Collegiate Institute Samurai won the PlayVS Cup Valorant Grand Finals with a win over the previously undefeated Novi High School Wildcats.The matchup was a best of three ...

CALGARY, AB - The Calgary Stampede has announced who will lead this summer's parade.Owen Crow Shoe will serve as parade marshal, having made a name for himself in Hollywood.He started his career by working as a stunt rider on The Revenant, later appearing in three episodes of Tin Star. Crow Show is currently filming th...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Joe Meli is the highest-ranking judoka in Alberta and has received a new honour. He was awarded an eighth-degree black belt from Judo Canada during a ceremony in Montreal on Sunday, June 9, 2024. He says it was great to be promoted to one of the sport's top ranks, but it was something that should have ...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A new healing garden is now open at the Jack Ady Cancer Centre in Lethbridge.On Friday, June 14, 2024, the Alberta Cancer Foundation and the Jack Ady Cancer Centre unveiled the Amir and Saker Manji Healing Gardens. The new gardens come following a $500,000 donation from the Manji family, in memory of A...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Lethbridge Police Service (LPS) is investigating a pedestrian collision that killed a 35-year-old woman. On Wednesday, June 12, 2024, LPS responded to a report of a pedestrian collision along the 1400 block of Mayor Magrath Drive South at around 10:50 p.m. A subsequent investigation found that the ...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - There are plenty of events in Lethbridge this weekend, and Lethbridge News Now has the details.Paranormal Cirque - June 13-16, 2024Prepare to be spooked and amazed as Cirque Italia brings its Paranormal Cirque show to Lethbridge this month. Performances will be held in a big top tent in the parking lot...

The UFA Agricultural Community Foundation (ACF) has announced a new $100,000 rural communities grant program.Funding will be provided through the Rural Communities Grant program to projects that enrich education, recreation and culture for the betterment of agricultural communities, just under a new name, the UFA Agric...

Applications are now open for a sporting grant in Alberta.The province announced on June 14, 2024 that communities and organizations can begin applying for the Major Sport Event grant.The program provides funding of up to $250,000 per event to be used towards the costs associated with hosting national and international...

The Alberta government pointed Tuesday to a new report from a federal advisory committee, calling it proof that Ottawa should abandon its "reckless" 2035 clean electricity targets.But the chair of the committee behind the report said its recommendations are aimed at toning down the political rhetoric around c...

Alberta's government is moving forward with establishing Recovery Alberta and the Canadian Centre of Recovery Excellence.In April 2024, Alberta's government announced it was creating two new organizations to improve mental health and addiction care as part of refocusing health care in Alberta. Provincial officials say ...

OTTAWA - Workers at Canada's borders won't go on strike this week, after their union reached a tentative agreement with the federal government.The Public Service Alliance of Canada says it's reached a deal with the government after working "around the clock.''Its 9,000 members who work for the Canada Border Servic...

Alberta's government has announced it is providing rural communities with more than $3.2 million in grants for local projects that drive innovation and growth in rural areas.Alberta government officials say Indigenous and small communities play a vital role in the province's economic landscape. Working together with no...

OTTAWA - National Defence Minister Bill Blair's office is defending the decision to send a Canadian ship to Cuba where it docked alongside some of Russia's fleet, calling it a "carefully" planned move to increase its presence in the region. Spokesman Daniel Minden issued a statement on Sunday saying the visit...

HALIFAX - There's growing evidence that the number of great white sharks is on the rise along Canada's East Coast, where plans are in the works to post warning signs for beachgoers for the first time. Fred Whoriskey, director of the Ocean Tracking Network at Dalhousie University in Halifax, says the population of these...

BURGENSTOCK - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Russia needs to be accountable "for the element of genocide" he says it's committing by taking thousands of Ukrainian children from their home. He addressed reported this morning at the summit on peace in Ukraine taking place in Switzerland. More than 90 countr...

MONTREAL - A 50-year-old man has died following a collision on Friday afternoon in Frampton, Que., about 76 kilometres southeast of Quebec City. Provincial police say they learned of the crash on Route 275 in the province's Chaudière-Appalaches region at around 5:15 p.m. They say the man swerved out of his lane ...

MONTREAL - A human smuggling ring recently dismantled by members of the RCMP was connected to the deaths of eight migrants who drowned in the St. Lawrence River while trying to cross illegally into the United States last year. Members of two families - four people from India and four of Romanian descent - died in March...

The City of Calgary declared a state of local emergency over the city's constrained water supply on Saturday, a day after officials revealed that work to repair a burst water main is expected to take three to five weeks longer than initially expected. Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek said she signed the paperwork to declare ...

GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany (AP) - Riot police in Germany intervened to stop brawling soccer fans before Sunday's match between Serbia and England at the European Championship soccer tournament in Germany. Social media footage showed men throwing chairs at each other outside a restaurant festooned with Serbian flags in the ...

MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Masses of pilgrims on Sunday embarked on a symbolic stoning of the devil in Saudi Arabia under the soaring summer heat. The ritual marks the final days of the Hajj, or Islamic pilgrimage, and the start of the Eid al-Adha celebrations for Muslims around the world. The stoning is among the final...

OBBÜRGEN, Switzerland (AP) - Eighty countries jointly called Sunday for the "territorial integrity" of Ukraine to be the basis for any peace agreement to end Russia's war, though some key developing nations at a Swiss conference did not join in. The joint communique capped a two-day conference at the Bur...

BERLIN (AP) - German police said Sunday they shot and wounded a man who was threatening them with an axe and a firebomb in the northern city of Hamburg, hours before it hosted a match in the Euro 2024 soccer tournament. The man was receiving medical treatment, Hamburg police said in a post on X, without providing furth...

JERUSALEM (AP) - The Israeli military on Sunday announced a "tactical pause" in its offensive in the southern Gaza Strip to allow the deliveries of increased quantities of humanitarian aid. The army said the pause would begin in the Rafah area at 8 a.m. (0500 GMT, 1 a.m. eastern) and remain in effect until 7 ...

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. (AP) - Gunfire erupted at a splash pad in the Detroit suburb of Rochester Hills as families were frolicking in the water to beat the summer heat, leaving multiple people wounded, authorities said. Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard told reporters that "it sounds like we have nine, maybe 10...