The Town of Picture Butte is recognizing its roots this weekend with a big 100th anniversary celebration as a community. The weekend kicks off, in earnest, with a street dance and barbecue at 6:00 Friday evening.Events continue Saturday morning with a pancake breakfast bright and early at 7 a.m. and the Centennial para...

The Downtown Lethbridge Business Revitalization Zone (BRZ) handed out its annual Downtown Awards on Thursday night at Festival Square.Below are the 2026 winners:Heritage Award - Catwalk Salon & SpaCommunity Contribution Award - Cool Girl CollectiveTourism Advocacy Award - Populess Co.Downtowner Award - Penny & ...

Rain and cooler temperatures in the last 48 hours, a welcome sight for farmers and ranchers in the area, but also able to help with the fire danger, which is now rated as LOW. It's also meant the easing of fire bans to fire restrictions or advisories. The City of Lethbridge lifted its ban for the River Valley Thursday,...

With temperatures in the mid-20s and no rain in the forecast this weekend, you might be thinking of heading outdoors - maybe, doing some swimming. Please keep in mind of a couple of Water Quality advisories for our region. The first - at Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, is for elevated levels of bacteria by the beach ...

The Town of Picture Butte is recognizing its roots this weekend with a big 100th anniversary celebration as a community. The weekend kicks off, in earnest, with a street dance and barbecue at 6:00 Friday evening.Events continue Saturday morning with a pancake breakfast bright and early at 7 a.m. and the Centennial para...

The Downtown Lethbridge Business Revitalization Zone (BRZ) handed out its annual Downtown Awards on Thursday night at Festival Square.Below are the 2026 winners:Heritage Award - Catwalk Salon & SpaCommunity Contribution Award - Cool Girl CollectiveTourism Advocacy Award - Populess Co.Downtowner Award - Penny & ...

Rain and cooler temperatures in the last 48 hours, a welcome sight for farmers and ranchers in the area, but also able to help with the fire danger, which is now rated as LOW. It's also meant the easing of fire bans to fire restrictions or advisories. The City of Lethbridge lifted its ban for the River Valley Thursday,...

With temperatures in the mid-20s and no rain in the forecast this weekend, you might be thinking of heading outdoors - maybe, doing some swimming. Please keep in mind of a couple of Water Quality advisories for our region. The first - at Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, is for elevated levels of bacteria by the beach ...

Police in Lethbridge are hoping to get more details from the public on an apparent targetted shooting Wednesday morning in a north end neighbourhood. LPS say they responded to a call, at around 6:45 in the morning, of shots fired at a home in the 1700-block of 6th Avenue North. Investigators were able to speak with nei...

Parents in the the Town of Raymond in search of child care will now have a new solution with the installation of a manufactured modular structure. Global Builds, the company behind the project, says using pre-fabricated buildings, rather than conventional construction, is a much quicker option. And, with its lone comme...

The provincial government is looking for public feedback from all Albertans on the Berland sub-regional plan.Located southest of Grande Prairie, the area includes 19,529 square kilometres of protected land and borders Jasper National Park; it's used for resource development, agriculture, recreation, tourism, forestry a...

Elections Alberta is calling out what it describes as a "significant volume of social media misinformation" related to vote registration and its own Voterlink tool."Elections Alberta is monitoring several streams of misinformation that have been increasing as we get closer to the referendum on October 19...

Alberta is delaying until later this year the implementation of new rules restricting which flags can be flown in schools. The province says it's also delaying a new mandate for schools to play the national anthem once a week. The new rules were expected to come in effect on Sept. 1 in time for the school year. They st...

Alberta's government says it's looking to do a study on the long-term security of the province's water supply. Environment Minister Grant Hunter says Alberta's population, industry and farming sector are all growing and reliable access to water is needed to sustain the growth. He says the study will look 100 years ahea...

Alberta RCMP is sharing safety tips for new drivers in the province, as, according to Transport Canada, young and new drivers are more likely to be involved in fatal and injury collisions.Police say this is due to the drivers' age and inexperience."Everyone has a duty to look out for each other on the roads, and t...

Alberta's Lieutenant Governor is praising Medicine Hat's community spirit and the athletes competing at the Special Olympics Canada Summer Games.The Honourable Salma Lakhani is making her second visit to Medicine Hat. She previously visited the city for the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards about three years a...

OTTAWA - Canada's annual inflation rate was 3.0 per cent in July, Statistics Canada says. The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that figures may have fluctuated widely because they are based on small statistical samples (previo...

OTTAWA - Canada's annual inflation rate was 3.0 per cent in July, Statistics Canada says. Here's what happened in the provinces (previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland and Labrador: 4.2 per cent (3.8) - Prince Edward Island: 4.0 per cent (3.8) - N...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... LeBlanc meets with U.S. trade representative as tariff deadline looms Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc spent the weekend in Washington to work with Donal...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to make an announcement about energy security after reports that Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador have reached a deal regarding Churchill Falls. Carney's public itinerary says he will be joined by Newfound...

OTTAWA - July's rebound in gas prices pushed the annual rate of inflation up to three per cent last month even as there were signs cost pressures were easing at the grocery store, Statistics Canada said Monday. The acceleration in the consumer price in...

MONTREAL - In a biomedicine laboratory at Polytechnique Montréal, animal protein grows in a bubbling orange solution as researchers in white lab coats take samples with large syringes. Neatly-labelled glass bottles filled with clear liquid line the she...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Monday again rebuffed President Donald Trump's push to throw out a jury's $5 million finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defame...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon on Sunday to scale back planned joint military exercises with South Korea after the Republican president said it declined to help denuclearize Iran. Trump said in a social medi...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Tommy John, who won 288 games during a 26-year big league career and became the first pitcher to successfully return following groundbreaking elbow surgery that later was named after him, has died. He was 83. He died at...

Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia on Sunday, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv's largest aerial attacks of the war. Kyiv has stepped up its attacks on Russia this year, with long-range missiles and swarms of drone...

Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia Sunday, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv's largest aerial attacks of the war. Russia's Ministry of Defense said that it had destroyed 822 drones overnight, with 600 headed toward...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - A passenger bus traveling on a highway in Hungary early Sunday went off the road and into a ditch where it overturned, killing 12 and injuring others, police said. The bus, which was carrying a group of Polish tou...