A barbecue fire at a north Lethbridge home last week is prompting Lethbridge Fire & Emergency Services to come out with some tips. At the top of that list: to regularly clean the grill and remove any excess grease or fat build-up that might being accumulating in the catch tray. LFES is also recommending you place b...

The Town of Coalhurst is looking closely at student and pedestrian safety after a close call with a child in the community recently.It happened near Coalhurst Elementary and led to a discussion at last Monday's Council meeting. Among the concerns being raised: vehicle speeds, driver behaviour, U-turn activity, and over...

Space is filling up fast for November's Entrepreneur Connections Summit in Lethbridge. The event, to take place November 5th at the Trade & Convention Centre, is targetting small and medium businesses in the region, which include vendors like those you would find at a farmers' market."Whether you want to stay ...

Electricity was restored Sunday to several areas in Lethbridge after about five hours. Power was cut off unexpectedly to the Fleetwood, Victoria Park, Upper Eastside, London Road, and Henderson Lake neighbourhoods at around 11 a.m. On its outage page, the City of Lethbridge deemed it as an electrical failure, but didn'...

A barbecue fire at a north Lethbridge home last week is prompting Lethbridge Fire & Emergency Services to come out with some tips. At the top of that list: to regularly clean the grill and remove any excess grease or fat build-up that might being accumulating in the catch tray. LFES is also recommending you place b...

The Town of Coalhurst is looking closely at student and pedestrian safety after a close call with a child in the community recently.It happened near Coalhurst Elementary and led to a discussion at last Monday's Council meeting. Among the concerns being raised: vehicle speeds, driver behaviour, U-turn activity, and over...

Space is filling up fast for November's Entrepreneur Connections Summit in Lethbridge. The event, to take place November 5th at the Trade & Convention Centre, is targetting small and medium businesses in the region, which include vendors like those you would find at a farmers' market."Whether you want to stay ...

Electricity was restored Sunday to several areas in Lethbridge after about five hours. Power was cut off unexpectedly to the Fleetwood, Victoria Park, Upper Eastside, London Road, and Henderson Lake neighbourhoods at around 11 a.m. On its outage page, the City of Lethbridge deemed it as an electrical failure, but didn'...

A busy section of Scenic Drive North in Lethbridge will be closed off to traffic, starting Monday. Electrical work is taking place between 26th Avenue and Uplands Boulevard North and will see the road ripped up to put in some new lines. Weather permitting, it's hoped that work will be complete by this Friday. Detour si...

Monday night is the regular meeting of town council in Raymond. Included on the agenda is the second reading of a proposed Community Standards bylaw."There were nine different bylaws that we're all talking about. Different things we thought. Is there a a way to bring them together?," Mayor Bryce Coppieters ex...

Alberta's regulated iGaming system is now live, starting the race for private sports betting companies and online casinos to stake their shares in the provincial gambling market.It makes Alberta the second province to officially open the doors to private online gambling operators, behind Ontario.Nearly 50 companies pai...

RCMP in Alberta and British Columbia have cancelled Amber Alerts in those provinces for a six-year-old boy, but the child remains missing.Alberta RCMP said Friday that they were cancelling their alert but continuing to investigate the abduction of Lanakai Morrison.The boy was taken Tuesday from the hamlet of Valhalla C...

Beaverlodge RCMP is cancelling the Amber Alert for Lanakai Morrison, but all four individuals; Lanakai, Karl Morrison, Krista Morrison and Daniel Ludwig are still missing.According to Mounties, "This alert was cancelled as there is no reasonable expectation the public, in Alberta, will be able to action the instru...

CHAUVIN - Two tornadoes touched down in Alberta on Wednesday, toppling trees, tearing up trailers in a campground and sending three people to hospital.Dillberry Lake Provincial Park in central Alberta, near the Saskatchewan boundary, was evacuated and campers were told to head to the nearby village of Chauvin, Alta.Nei...

Elections Alberta announced they recently identified a website that appears to be attempting to represent itself as Elections Alberta.The government says the spoofed URL of electionsab.ca was designed to mislead by mimicking the legitimate website URL of elections.ab.ca, and exploit concerns about the recent unauthoriz...

July 10 evening update: As of Friday night, the Amber Alert originating in Alberta on July 8 has been cancelled for BOTH Alberta and British Columbia.However, it has now been extended to the Yukon and Northwest Territories.More to come...--July 10 afternoon update: Alert cancelled in Alberta "Lanakai, his mother K...

THUNDER BAY - Residents of a handful of communities in northwestern Ontario have been ordered to flee their homes due to nearby forest fires. The Ontario Provincial Police force says on social media that evacuation orders are in place for Armstrong and...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... US attacks Iran and Tehran retaliates across the Middle East as both vie for control of strait The U.S. has launched more strikes on Iran after President Donald Tr...

TORONTO - Ontario is expected to start feeling the worst of its latest heat wave today as forecasters predict temperatures to reach the mid- to high 30s, and humidex readings near the mid-40s. Much of northern Ontario spent Monday under a severe orange...

OTTAWA - Hundreds of First Nations chiefs are gathering in Ottawa today for the Assembly of First Nations annual meeting. They'll be debating 53 separate resolutions during the three-day gathering. They include resolutions on the federal government's m...

OTTAWA - Canada's national war and history museums say they would have to conduct a review before they could display a personalized revolver and ammunition given to Prime Minister Mark Carney at this year's NATO summit. Turkish President Recep Tayyip ...

Police in southwestern Colorado say a man from British Columbia died after the helicopter he was piloting crashed Sunday while battling a wildfire. Adam Murdie with Colorado's Gunnison County Sheriff's Office says the body of 56-year-old Nicholas Dale ...

BANGKOK (AP) - The death toll from a huge fire in a Bangkok music bar has increased to 30, officials said Tuesday. More than 70 people were injured, with 24 of them still in critical condition, according to a statement by the Bangkok Metr...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Jordan Walker silenced Philadelphia's boo birds by homering on his last six swings, chasing down Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber in the final round and becoming the first St. Louis Cardinal to win the Home Run Derby on Monday night....

GUNNISON, Colo. (AP) - A helicopter helping fight a Colorado wildfire has crashed into a reservoir, killing the pilot, authorities said. The aircraft was reported down Sunday in the Silver Jack Reservoir and the pilot's body was recovered by divers. Th...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Darline Graham Nordone, who was appointed to serve the remaining months of the Senate term that her late brother, Lindsey Graham, left behind when he died over the weekend, hasn't been in office before. But through...

Minnesota prosecutors announced Monday that they have obtained key evidence in their ongoing investigations into fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti during pitched protests against a federal immigration enforcement crackdown in the state earl...

BRUSSELS (AP) - The European Union coordinated efforts to raise 900 million euros ($1 billion) in aid for Gaza, working with 65 governments and organizations including the White House and the United Nations, the bloc's top diplomat said Monday. ...