RCMP from the Taber-Vauxhall detachment responded to a train versus semi-trailer collision on Tuesday near Taber.At 2:17 p.m. on March 17, Mounties received a report of the collision on Range Road 160 alongside Highway 3, east of Taber near Fincastle.An RCMP spokesperson says officers informed CPKC, and the crew was th...

The Lethbridge Handmade market is celebrating 10 years next month.The market is inviting shoppers and vendors alike to join them in celebrating this milestone achievement and celebration of local artisans and creativity.New this year, the market is offering their lowest price yet for vendors, $26 per 11 hours, while ex...

The Nord-Bridge Seniors Centre has officially launched its new Go Friendly Shuttle to provide door-to-door transportation for seniors.The program was launched on Friday, March 13, with a new 2025 Ford Transit passenger van added to support shuttle services. The service allows seniors to attend programs, services, and s...

Lethbridge County says residents still have time to complete a short survey as part of the update to the Residential Land Use Strategy. The strategy is a long-term planning document that helps guide residential development in the county, with the survey to help plan in a responsible way that reflects community prioriti...

RCMP from the Taber-Vauxhall detachment responded to a train versus semi-trailer collision on Tuesday near Taber.At 2:17 p.m. on March 17, Mounties received a report of the collision on Range Road 160 alongside Highway 3, east of Taber near Fincastle.An RCMP spokesperson says officers informed CPKC, and the crew was th...

The Lethbridge Handmade market is celebrating 10 years next month.The market is inviting shoppers and vendors alike to join them in celebrating this milestone achievement and celebration of local artisans and creativity.New this year, the market is offering their lowest price yet for vendors, $26 per 11 hours, while ex...

The Nord-Bridge Seniors Centre has officially launched its new Go Friendly Shuttle to provide door-to-door transportation for seniors.The program was launched on Friday, March 13, with a new 2025 Ford Transit passenger van added to support shuttle services. The service allows seniors to attend programs, services, and s...

Lethbridge County says residents still have time to complete a short survey as part of the update to the Residential Land Use Strategy. The strategy is a long-term planning document that helps guide residential development in the county, with the survey to help plan in a responsible way that reflects community prioriti...

Charges have been laid against a Calgary man suspected of trafficking drugs between Calgary and Lethbridge. In April 2025, the Cochrane RCMP Crime Reduction Unit (CRU), with assistance from RCMP Federal Policing Northwest Region, began investigating a male suspected of trafficking drugs between the two cities. Then on ...

Before winter fully melts away, there's still time to share your thoughts on snow route plowing, windrows and other City winter services. The City of Lethbridge says it is wrapping up the 2025/2026 season of the multi-year Snow and Ice Control Service Level pilot, and the transportation team is collecting final commun...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's government is taking steps to sharply restrict who's eligible for medical assistance in dying. Smith's United Conservative Party government has introduced a bill stipulating that only those likely to die of n...

The Calgary Stampede has unveiled a 20-year blueprint to turn the venue of the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth into a year-round destination. The Stampede and the Calgary Municipal Land Corporation has released the new master plan aimed to expand Stampede Park. It includes creating seven distinct zones, including a live...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she travelled on a private plane on behalf of the Saudi government last fall. Smith says the provincial ethics commissioner had signed off on any non-commercial travel ahead of the trip and that it was proposed by the Saudi government for ``more efficient travel.'' The premier's offi...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Tuesday her long-term goal is to be able to balance the province's books even with moderate oil prices. In about 10 years, she said, she'd like Alberta to bring spending in line with revenues that US$60-per-barrel oil would bring to provincial coffers. ``That's where we have be. But ...

Disability advocates and the Alberta NDP are calling on the government to up its game when it comes to accessibility, saying it comes down to giving people dignity. Alberta is one of just two provinces to not have overarching accessibility legislation and standards, something critics say continues to be a major blemish...

Alberta may soon require oil and gas companies to be on top of their municipal property taxes if they want to keep producing. It's one of more than a dozen proposals contained in a new report released by the province and by the Rural Municipalities of Alberta. Unpaid municipal taxes by some in the energy industry is a ...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's government is taking steps to sharply restrict who's eligible for medical assistance in dying. Smith's United Conservative Party government has introduced a bill stipulating that only those likely to die of n...

LAVAL - A jury has found a man who drowned his two children in their Laval, Que., family home in October 2022 guilty on all charges. Kamaljit Arora, 49, was found guilty of first-degree murder in the deaths of his 11-year-old son and 13-year-old daught...

OTTAWA - Canada Border Services Agency says it has opened 372 immigration investigations in an effort to "disrupt extortion networks" across the country. It says the CBSA began formally monitoring immigration enforcement cases potentially linked to ext...

REGINA - Saskatchewan has introduced a new budget that avoids tax hikes and program cuts but carries with it a big deficit. Finance Minister Jim Reiter tabled the 2026-27 budget on Wednesday. It projects a $819-million deficit this year with more defic...

A Chinese couple have lost a bid to immigrate to Canada after a Federal Court judge agreed there are reasonable grounds to believe the police officer husband was complicit in crimes against humanity. The ruling issued last Friday says the husband, a se...

OTTAWA - Most Canadians want the government to ban or regulate the use of algorithms to set prices, a new poll suggests - with half of respondents saying the practice is unfair because it can result in people paying different prices for the same produc...

Labor rights activist Dolores Huerta revealed she was among women and girls who say they were sexually abused by César Chavez, the long-admired Latino icon, while he led the United Farm Workers union. The stunning allegations against Chav...

Labor rights leader Dolores Huerta says she was sexually abused by César Chavez amid reported allegations of abuse by others during his tenure as president of The United Farm Workers union. On Wednesday, an investigation by the New York T...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday declared a temporary pause in escalating fighting, two days after Kabul blamed Islamabad for a deadly airstrike in the Afghan capital that it said killed hundreds of people at a drug rehab...

The World Anti-Doping Agency on Tuesday put off a decision about barring government officials from major sporting events if their countries voluntarily withhold dues, pushing a potential conflict with President Donald Trump and other U.S. officials unt...

CAIRO (AP) - The latest heavy fighting between warring parties along Sudan 's border with Chad has killed 17 people and left many seriously wounded, a medical group said. Health authorities received 123 wounded people at a newly built hos...

MIAMI (AP) - Eugenio Suárez and his Venezuelan teammates stood on the stage behind second base with shiny medals draped over their proud chests, belting out their national anthem accompanied by tens of thousands of fans who remained in the ballpark a h...