LETHBRIDGE, AB - A major project at a north side elementary school is getting support from Lethbridge City Council.Members voted unanimously on Tuesday, June 25, 2024 to put $1.2 million towards the soon-to-be modernized Galbraith School.First built in 1911, it is the oldest school in the city.The municipal funding wil...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A protester arrested at the border blockade at Coutts, Alta., acted surprised when police told him he was being charged with conspiracy to commit murder.Anthony Olienick also said he didn't threaten to kill anyone.About three hours of the video statement he gave to police after his arrest on Feb. 14, 2...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge Hurricanes forward Miguel Marques has cracked TSN's Bob McKenzie's top 100 draft prospects ahead of the 2024 NHL Entry Draft.McKenzie ranked Marques as the number 67 prospect in the draft in his final rankings released on Tuesday, June 25, 2024. He had previously been ranked at 61 in McKenzi...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Lethbridge Hurricanes have announced their 2024-25 regular season schedule.The season will consist of 68 games, with 34 home games and 34 road games for the Hurricanes. They will kick off their season with the Dairy Queen Home Opener on September 20 against the Edmonton Oil Kings.Over the course of...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A major project at a north side elementary school is getting support from Lethbridge City Council.Members voted unanimously on Tuesday, June 25, 2024 to put $1.2 million towards the soon-to-be modernized Galbraith School.First built in 1911, it is the oldest school in the city.The municipal funding wil...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A protester arrested at the border blockade at Coutts, Alta., acted surprised when police told him he was being charged with conspiracy to commit murder.Anthony Olienick also said he didn't threaten to kill anyone.About three hours of the video statement he gave to police after his arrest on Feb. 14, 2...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge Hurricanes forward Miguel Marques has cracked TSN's Bob McKenzie's top 100 draft prospects ahead of the 2024 NHL Entry Draft.McKenzie ranked Marques as the number 67 prospect in the draft in his final rankings released on Tuesday, June 25, 2024. He had previously been ranked at 61 in McKenzi...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Lethbridge Hurricanes have announced their 2024-25 regular season schedule.The season will consist of 68 games, with 34 home games and 34 road games for the Hurricanes. They will kick off their season with the Dairy Queen Home Opener on September 20 against the Edmonton Oil Kings.Over the course of...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Lethbridge Police Service (LPS) issued 55 traffic tickets over the weekend.The tickets are part of a targeted traffic enforcement project by LPS that is taking place over the summer. In addition, police removed one impaired driver from the road, arrested two people wanted on an outstanding warrants...

Four universities from the United States will make their way to Lethbridge in November.The ENMAX Centre will play host to the Western Slam NCAA tournament from November 28 to 30, 2024. The event is described as a dynamic showcase of basketball talent, where four teams will play in six games over the three days.READ MOR...

The Government of Alberta has announced a new step that it hopes will address recruitment challenges for law enforcement.It has created a new pathway within the Alberta Advantage Immigration Program (AAIP) for law enforcement personnel to come to the province.Alberta Association of Chiefs of Police (AACP) President Mar...

The province could continue to see steady population growth over the next 24 years.That is according to new population estimates released by Statistics Canada (StatCan).As of April 1, 2024, Alberta was home to 4,849,906 people. Under the agency's medium-growth scenario, that could rise to around 7,044,700 residents by ...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A new report shows that the dollar amounts from auto theft claims are on the rise in several Alberta cities.The Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) reports that vehicle theft claims costs in Alberta rose by 55 per cent between 2021 and 2023.Aaron Sutherland, Vice-President of Western and Pacific with IBC ...

A new person is in charge of the Court of King's Bench in Alberta.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced the appointment of the Hounorable Kent H. Davidson as Chief Justice."I wish the Honourable Kent H. Davidson all the best in his new role. His experience and expertise in many areas of the law will bring tr...

Alberta New Democrats have chosen former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi as their new leader.Nenshi secured 86 per cent of ballots, with more than 62,000 of the roughly 85,000 cast.He is now the leader of the Opposition but doesn't hold a seat in the legislature."I am truly humbled and honoured to have been selected t...

Alberta's New Democratic Party is bidding farewell tonight to outgoing Leader Rachel Notley.Notley is set to give her final speech as leader of the party, after shepherding its growth into the largest Opposition in Alberta's history.A record 85,000 members are set to pick a new leader out of four candidates on Saturday...

LYTTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - Three years after a wildfire destroyed much of the British Columbia village of Lytton, the tiny Fraser Canyon community is still struggling to get back on its feet. Mayor Denise O'Connor told a news conference ahead of the anniversary that there's good news, with the first building pe...

MONTREAL - Pro-Palestinian protesters and counter-protesters faced off today at a downtown Montreal square, where a new encampment tied to the war in the Gaza Strip was set up over the weekend. The two sides were separated by a line police officers at Victoria Square, about one kilometre south from a similar encampment...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is set to attend the Assembly of First Nation's upcoming annual general assembly for the first time since he took the party helm. Spokesman Sebastian Skamski says Poilievre will attend the assembly's July meeting in Montreal and deliver a keynote address. Poilievre is also ...

OTTAWA - A historic defeat for the Liberals in a downtown Toronto byelection has put a glaring question mark on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's political future. Insiders warn the Conservative victory could be a sign portending a Tory blue wave when the rest of Canada goes to the polls. Here's a look at the options Tru...

LANGFORD, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - Former British Columbia premier and Canada's ambassador to Germany John Horgan is facing his third battle with cancer. Ravi Parmar, the New Democrat member for Horgan's former Langford-Juan de Fuca riding, says he heard from the former premier today and was told he has thyroid cance...

CHURCHILL FALLS, N.L. - The wildfire in Labrador threatening the evacuated town of Churchill Falls has jumped the Churchill River, prompting the evacuation of the nearby hydroelectric generating station. The river has acted as a natural fire break ever since the wildfire broke out on June 13 and then rapidly grew on Ju...

PROVO, Utah (AP) - Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is likely to win a second term after he beat his primary challenger on Tuesday. Cox, a moderate Republican who took office in 2021, prevailed in the primary after he was booed earlier this year by GOP convention delegates, who tend to lean farther right. Utah's more muted Republ...

George Latimer, a pro-Israel centrist, defeated U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman, of New York, on Tuesday in a Democratic primary that highlighted the party's deep divisions over the war in Gaza. With the victory, Latimer has almost certainly ousted one of the most liberal voices in Congress and one of its most outspoken critic...

DENVER (AP) - U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert won the Republican primary in a U.S. House race that she jumped into last year, surviving a scandal over a video of her at a Denver theater and accusations of carpetbagging after fleeing what could have been a tough reelection bid in her current district. Boebert built national ha...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Sheri Biggs, a nurse practitioner and Air National Guard officer, won the Republican nomination for the U.S. House in South Carolina's 3rd District on Tuesday. Biggs was backed by Republican Gov. Henry McMaster. She and her husband were longtime friends and financial backers of the governor. Biggs...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - A Guatemalan appeals court on Tuesday revoked a judge's order to give house arrest to journalist José Rubén Zamora, known for railing against corruption in the Central American country. The reporter has been in prison for two years, something that has sparked outrage by press freedom...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward its eastern waters on Wednesday, South Korea's military said, in an apparent protest of the deployment of a U.S. aircraft carrier for a new trilateral military drill including the United States, South Korea and Japan. The North's reported launch als...