Albertan drivers are enjoying cheaper gas prices heading into fall.The average gasoline price in Alberta was 143.6 cents per litre on Friday, according to price tracking website GasBuddy.com.That's down 15.6 cents from the same time August.It was a similar picture for several of Alberta's mid-sized cities, including Le...

A southern Alberta community is considering the idea of transitioning from being a town to a city.The Town of Taber says its 120th anniversary is coming up next year and it could be a good opportunity to make a history-making change.At this time, no formal decision have been made.Council has asked administrative staff ...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - You can play an active role in shaping the development of the community.The City of Lethbridge is asking residents to consider joining one of its Boards, Commissions or Committees (BCCs).Positions are currently open in 10 BCCs, which involve a variety of advisory, decision-making, quasi-judicial, or go...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - UPDATE: The Lethbridge Police Service has identified three suspects who are wanted in connection to a commercial fire in the city. Since they have been identified, the surveillance photos have been removed from this article.Original Story:The Lethbridge Police Service (LPS) is asking for the public's h...

Albertan drivers are enjoying cheaper gas prices heading into fall.The average gasoline price in Alberta was 143.6 cents per litre on Friday, according to price tracking website GasBuddy.com.That's down 15.6 cents from the same time August.It was a similar picture for several of Alberta's mid-sized cities, including Le...

A southern Alberta community is considering the idea of transitioning from being a town to a city.The Town of Taber says its 120th anniversary is coming up next year and it could be a good opportunity to make a history-making change.At this time, no formal decision have been made.Council has asked administrative staff ...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - You can play an active role in shaping the development of the community.The City of Lethbridge is asking residents to consider joining one of its Boards, Commissions or Committees (BCCs).Positions are currently open in 10 BCCs, which involve a variety of advisory, decision-making, quasi-judicial, or go...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - UPDATE: The Lethbridge Police Service has identified three suspects who are wanted in connection to a commercial fire in the city. Since they have been identified, the surveillance photos have been removed from this article.Original Story:The Lethbridge Police Service (LPS) is asking for the public's h...

Farmers in the region are hard at work getting crops out of the ground.According to the latest Alberta Crop Report, which details the conditions as of Aug. 27, approximately 37.8 per cent of all crops had been combined.That is ahead of the five-year average of 29.8 per cent and the 10-year average of 25.3 per cent.The ...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A highly accomplished local has yet another accolade for her already impressive resume.Cyndi Bester has been named the new president of the University of Lethbridge Alumni Association (ULAA)."Taking on the role of ULAA President is both an honour and a responsibility I hold dear," says Bester...

RCMP are now confirming that their multiple heavy presences in north Red Deer this week were related to the search for Elijah Blake Strawberry. Strawberry is wanted in connection to the killing of Airdrie resident Colin Hough in Rocky View County on Aug. 6, 2024. RCMP made one arrest shortly after that shooting occurre...

Albertan drivers are enjoying cheaper gas prices heading into fall.The average gasoline price in Alberta was 143.6 cents per litre on Friday, according to price tracking website GasBuddy.com.That's down 15.6 cents from the same time August.It was a similar picture for several of Alberta's mid-sized cities, including Le...

Despite an overall increase in the number of people working, Alberta's unemployment rate was up last month.In Statistics Canada's latest Labour Force Survey, it says the unemployment rate in the province was 7.7 per cent in August, and increase of 0.6 per cent from July.There was an increase in employment of nearly 13,...

The Government of Alberta is encouraging women to get an education in fields that generally underrepresent women. It was announced on September 4, 2024, that there will be three post-secondary academic scholarships given to women this upcoming school year. Two of those have already been introduced, The Women in Science...

The rates that Albertans pay for electricity and natural gas have reportedly gone down in recent months.The Alberta Utilities Commission reports that, between August 2023 and August 2024, the average monthly price for default electricity rates in the province decreased from 32.27 cents per kilowatt hour to 13.19.That a...

Alberta's government says it's pulling $1.53 billion in funding from a massive Calgary Green Line light rail transit project already deep in sunk costs.Premier Danielle Smith's United Conservative government is blaming former mayor, NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi, for past mismanagement, while Calgary city council is pointin...

FORT ST. JAMES, B.C. - A British Columbia First Nations leader says the province must rethink its approach to the forest industry in light of Canfor Corp.'s decision to shutter two sawmills and leave 500 workers without jobs. Nak'azdli Whut'en Chief Colleen Erickson says First Nations must play a bigger role in the ind...

U.S. authorities say a Canadian resident has been arrested in Quebec over an alleged Islamic State terror plot to kill Jewish people in New York. The U.S. Department of Justice says Pakistani national Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, 20, also known as Shahzeb Jadoon, was arrested on Wednesday in relation to the attack it says wa...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says Grand Chief Cathy Merrick of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs has died. Merrick, the first woman elected to the role, collapsed outside the Winnipeg Law Courts building and was rushed to hospital. She had been talking to reporters about two court cases when she said she felt di...

OTTAWA - The former governor of the Bank of Canada who has long been touted as a possible Liberal candidate or successor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will give the party some advice on the economy at the Liberal caucus retreat in Nanaimo, B.C. next week. Mark Carney will address Liberal MPs about the economy and a ...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's Official Opposition BC United party now says it will run some candidates in the Oct. 19 election, despite suspending its campaign last week to support the B.C. Conservative Party instead. A letter to party members says despite last week's suspension "we intend on running a select numb...

VANCOUVER - Premier David Eby says mental health care in the province for those committed against their will needs to be "dignified and humane" to be effective, as his government works on a strategy about involuntary care. Eby, speaking after a deadly random stranger attack in downtown Vancouver this week, sa...

NEW YORK (AP) - Top-ranked Jannik Sinner finished off a 7-5, 7-6 (3), 6-2 victory over Jack Draper to reach his first final at the U.S. Open - and second at a Grand Slam tournament his year - after they simultaneously received treatment from trainers on a humid afternoon Friday. Sinner, a 23-year-old from Italy who was...

NEW YORK (AP) - Top-ranked Jannik Sinner finished off a 7-5, 7-6 (3), 6-2 victory over Jack Draper to reach his first final at the U.S. Open - and second at a Grand Slam tournament his year - after they simultaneously received treatment from trainers on a humid afternoon Friday. Sinner, a 23-year-old from Italy who was...

NEW YORK (AP) - A judge agreed Friday to postpone Donald Trump's sentencing in his hush money case until after the November election, granting him a hard-won reprieve as he navigates the aftermath of his criminal conviction and the homestretch of his presidential campaign. Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan, who is also w...

NEW YORK (AP) - A judge agreed Friday to postpone Donald Trump's sentencing in his hush money case until after the November election, granting him a hard-won reprieve as he navigates the aftermath of his criminal conviction and the homestretch of his presidential campaign. Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan, who is also w...

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) - A former Mafia hitman was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday in the 2018 fatal prison bludgeoning of notorious Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger. Federal prisoner Fotios "Freddy" Geas was sentenced in federal court in northern West Virginia after pleading guilty to v...

WINDER, Ga. (AP) - The 14-year-old suspect in a shooting at a Georgia high school that killed four people will stay in detention as his lawyer declined to seek bail at a Friday morning court hearing. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP's earlier story follows below. WINDER, Ga. (AP) - The 14-year-old accused of fatally ...