LETHBRIDGE, AB - A staple of sport in Southern Alberta is returning for 2024.The Rocky Mountain Turf Club begins its 2024 season on Saturday, May 4. The day kicks off nearly four months of horse races on weekends, and the club will host its' Kentucky Derby races on that same day.Jockeys at the start of the Rocky Mounta...

A non-profit in Alberta looks to build an international train route, connecting the prairie province and Montana.Integrated Travel Research and Development has released its Alberta-Montana Passenger Rail Feasibility Report.It proposed creating an 888.9 kilometre route between Calgary and Livingston, Montana. It could h...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - An instructor at Lethbridge College has received a provincial award.Engineering technology teacher Jim Pinches is the recipient of the Association of Science and Engineering Technology Professionals of Alberta's (ASET) 2024 ASET Outstanding Educator Award.The honour highlights an educator who demonstra...

CLARESHOLM, AB - The RCMP is investigating a serious collision in southern Alberta.It occurred at approximately 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, on Highway 22, about five kilometres north of Highway 520.The initial investigation from the RCMP revealed that a southbound vehicle may have crossed the centre line and ...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A staple of sport in Southern Alberta is returning for 2024.The Rocky Mountain Turf Club begins its 2024 season on Saturday, May 4. The day kicks off nearly four months of horse races on weekends, and the club will host its' Kentucky Derby races on that same day.Jockeys at the start of the Rocky Mounta...

A non-profit in Alberta looks to build an international train route, connecting the prairie province and Montana.Integrated Travel Research and Development has released its Alberta-Montana Passenger Rail Feasibility Report.It proposed creating an 888.9 kilometre route between Calgary and Livingston, Montana. It could h...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - An instructor at Lethbridge College has received a provincial award.Engineering technology teacher Jim Pinches is the recipient of the Association of Science and Engineering Technology Professionals of Alberta's (ASET) 2024 ASET Outstanding Educator Award.The honour highlights an educator who demonstra...

CLARESHOLM, AB - The RCMP is investigating a serious collision in southern Alberta.It occurred at approximately 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, on Highway 22, about five kilometres north of Highway 520.The initial investigation from the RCMP revealed that a southbound vehicle may have crossed the centre line and ...

Part of the region received around 1.5 feet of snowfall on Tuesday, April 30, 2024.Environment Canada says heavy snow fell over sections of southwestern Alberta from Monday evening to Tuesday morning.The area southwest of Millarville, located in Foothills County south of Calgary, saw a total of 46 cm of snow.The weathe...

UPDATE - May 1, 2024CLARESHOLM, AB - The RCMP has confirmed that two people were killed in a collision Tuesday night on Highway 22.READ MORE: Two killed, one injured in collision west of ClaresholmORIGINAL STORY - April 30, 2024CLARESHOLM, AB - The RCMP is on-scene of a collision on Highway 22 in southern Alberta.The C...

A non-profit in Alberta looks to build an international train route, connecting the prairie province and Montana.Integrated Travel Research and Development has released its Alberta-Montana Passenger Rail Feasibility Report.It proposed creating an 888.9 kilometre route between Calgary and Livingston, Montana. It could h...

The Alberta government is reversing its plan to axe a subsidy program that helps low-income people pay for transit passes.It comes after a day of backlash from the mayors of Edmonton and Calgary.The province's two largest cities were set to lose $12 million in funding from the province.Social Services Minister Jason Ni...

The province has launched the third phase of the Alberta is Calling campaign to attract skilled workers to Alberta. The campaign, which is now in-market in British Columbia, Quebec and Ontario, provides the Alberta is Calling Moving Bonus - a one time, $5,000 refundable tax credit aimed at enticing skilled trades worke...

Wednesday marks the official start date of the long-awaited $34-billion Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion project.Crown corporation Trans Mountain Corp. says as of Wednesday, the expanded pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast will be transporting crude oil. The project involved twinning an existing pipeline that ...

CALGARY, AB - A Calgary judge will determine in June if he will approve a proposed settlement for complainants in a class-action lawsuit that alleged the Calgary Stampede allowed a performance school staffer to sexually abuse young boys. The agreement is related to the case of Philip Heerema. Heerema received a 10-year...

EDMONTON, AB - The Alberta government will consult with the province's sexual assault centres to determine how to spend an additional $10 million over the next three years.An additional $3 million is being allocated in 2024-25 to support 15 sexual assault centres.There will be another $3 million in 2025-26 and $4 milli...

OTTAWA - Federal public servants will have to work from their offices at least three days a week as of Sept. 9. The new rules also stipulate that executives will have to be in the office at least four days a week. The Treasury Board of Canada says the new rules are being put in place due to the benefits of interacting...

OTTAWA - Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem says he doesn't think the federal budget tabled last month with have much of an effect on inflation. Macklem was testifying at a Senate committee alongside senior deputy governor Carolyn Rogers following the central bank's latest interest rate announcement. The governor sa...

LYTTON, B.C. - British Columbia's auditor general says his office is doing a review of the province's response to the 2021 wildfire that devastated the community of Lytton, B.C. Michael Pickup says in a video statement that the report will focus on the B.C. government's roles and responsibilities for disaster recovery,...

VANCOUVER - Police say a 44-year-old woman has been arrested in a hate-crime investigation over a speech in Vancouver that praised the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel. A statement from the Vancouver Police Department says the woman "referred to a number of terrorist organizations as heroes." More coming. Th...

OTTAWA - Human-rights groups are urging Ottawa to reverse course on plans to allow immigrant detention in federal prisons, saying vulnerable people could be exposed to unreasonably harsh conditions. Ottawa can detain foreigners without charge when they can't be identified or when it is suspected they won't show up to h...

Canada's energy sector as well as the country's main oil-producing province celebrated Wednesday as the long-awaited $34-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion officially came online.Crown corporation Trans Mountain Corp. issued a statement Wednesday confirming that oil is now moving on the expanded pipeline, which ...

PHOENIX (AP) - Democrats in the Arizona Legislature are expected to make a final push Wednesday to repeal the state's long-dormant ban on nearly all abortions, which a court said can be enforced. Voting wasn't complete but the Senate had the 16 votes it needed to advance the bill. Fourteen Democrats in the Senate were ...

MOUNT HOREB, Wis. (AP) - A Wisconsin school district said an active shooter was "neutralized" outside a middle school in Mount Horeb on Wednesday, and no one inside the building was injured. Authorities said without giving details that the "alleged assailant" was harmed, and a witness said she had h...

LONDON (AP) - German tennis legend Boris Becker was discharged from bankruptcy court in London after a judge found Wednesday he had done "all that he reasonably could do" to repay creditors tens of millions of pounds. Becker fell far short of repaying his creditors in full, but Chief Insolvency and Companies ...

WESTMORELAND, Kan. (AP) - One person died Tuesday when a tornado ripped through the small city of Westmoreland in northeastern Kansas, destroying houses, RVs and outbuildings, authorities said. Pottawatomie County officials said on Facebook that a tornado struck the city of about 700 people Tuesday evening, destroying ...

NEW YORK (AP) - The pro-Palestinian demonstration that paralyzed Columbia University ended in dramatic fashion late Tuesday, with police carrying riot shields swarming the Ivy League campus, bursting into an administration building protesters took over the previous night and making dozens of arrests. A statement releas...

BEIJING (AP) - The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China said he was allowed back into his lab after he spent days locked outside, sitting in protest. Zhang Yongzhen wrote in an online post early Wednesday that authorities had "tentatively agreed" to allow him and his team to re...