LETHBRIDGE, AB - Indigenous-led projects in Alberta are benefitting from nearly $4 million in provincial funding.The Indigenous Reconciliation Initiative, which launched last year, offers up to $100,000 per project through cultural and economic grant streams. The Alberta government is accepting applications for the 202...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A new survey has found that half of Canadians are anxious about tornadoes and severe wind gusts, while 28 per cent have fears of hurricanes.First Onsite unveiled the numbers as the second leg of its annual weather and property survey looking into the concerns of Canadians, their perceptions and propert...

CROWSNEST PASS, AB - A medical clinic in Blairmore has received recognition for the work of its team members.The Alberta Rural Health Professions Action Plan (RhPAP) has named the Crowsnest Medical Clinic team as the 2024 recipient of the Rhapsody Healthcare Heroes Award.This is one of two Rhapsody Awards presented eve...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A scholarship created for registered nurses is available at the University of Lethbridge (U of L).The Dr. Shannon Spenceley Legacy of Nursing Scholarship is available for registered nurses or nurse practitioners in good standing with the College of Registered Nurses of Alberta (CRNA) who are pursuing a...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Indigenous-led projects in Alberta are benefitting from nearly $4 million in provincial funding.The Indigenous Reconciliation Initiative, which launched last year, offers up to $100,000 per project through cultural and economic grant streams. The Alberta government is accepting applications for the 202...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A new survey has found that half of Canadians are anxious about tornadoes and severe wind gusts, while 28 per cent have fears of hurricanes.First Onsite unveiled the numbers as the second leg of its annual weather and property survey looking into the concerns of Canadians, their perceptions and propert...

CROWSNEST PASS, AB - A medical clinic in Blairmore has received recognition for the work of its team members.The Alberta Rural Health Professions Action Plan (RhPAP) has named the Crowsnest Medical Clinic team as the 2024 recipient of the Rhapsody Healthcare Heroes Award.This is one of two Rhapsody Awards presented eve...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A scholarship created for registered nurses is available at the University of Lethbridge (U of L).The Dr. Shannon Spenceley Legacy of Nursing Scholarship is available for registered nurses or nurse practitioners in good standing with the College of Registered Nurses of Alberta (CRNA) who are pursuing a...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Lethbridge Police Service (LPS) is looking to identify a suspect in a robbery.Just after 5:00 p.m. on April 16, 2024, LPS responded to a report of a robbery at Fas Gas along the 400 block of Stafford Drive North. Police say a woman was seen concealing merchandise and was confronted by the clerk. Th...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The season of spring cleaning will be celebrated this weekend.The Reuse Rendezvous is back in Lethbridge for another year on Saturday, May 11, 2024. The event was initially launched by the City of Lethbridge in 2011 and is now hosted by Environment Lethbridge (EL). It gives people the chance to give aw...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Indigenous-led projects in Alberta are benefitting from nearly $4 million in provincial funding.The Indigenous Reconciliation Initiative, which launched last year, offers up to $100,000 per project through cultural and economic grant streams. The Alberta government is accepting applications for the 202...

CARDSTON, AB - A major Alberta utility has cancelled a large wind power project in response to new government rules on where such developments can be built.TransAlta CEO John Kousinioris said Friday the 300-megawatt Riplinger project near Cardston in southern Alberta will no longer proceed."We've reassessed our gr...

Albertans are encouraged to be ready for an emergency.May 5 to 11, 2024 marks Emergency Preparedness Week across the country. The theme for this year's initiative is 'Be Prepared. Know Your Risks', with the intent being to encourage citizens to understand the risks in their local area and learn what actions they can ta...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - If you are driving along the highways of Alberta this weekend, watch out for volunteers cleaning the roads.On Saturday, May 4, 2024, volunteer groups will be clearing provincial highways of trash as part of an annual cleanup. Helpers in orange safety vests will participate between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m.Driv...

The Government of Alberta has announced extra funding that it hopes will help to protect the health of women and babies.Premier Danielle Smith says healthy families are the foundation of healthy communities."Investing in women's health and newborn screening means better outcomes and more peace of mind. We're givin...

A new report from Statistics Canada shows that Alberta was one of the country's top economic performers last year, despite national growth slowing.Real GDP growth for all of Canada was 1.2 per cent in 2023, falling from 3.6 per cent in 2022. Alberta's economy grew by 1.5 per cent, as supposed to 5.1 per cent the year p...

ZEBALLOS, B.C. - A reported sighting of an orca pod off Vancouver Island near where an orphan killer whale is spending her time after escaping from a lagoon has an expert expressing caution and downplaying a possible family reunion. A confirmed sighting of a pod of nine orcas was reported Monday near Kyuquot Sound, abo...

The Canadian government used a Haitian executive's property for helicopter evacuations of its citizens as violence escalated there last month, even while refusing to remove him from a sanctions list, a Federal Court application says. The Canadian government sanctioned Reynold Deeb in December 2022, along with two othe...

OTTAWA - The head of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. is set to testify before members of Parliament today. CEO and president Catherine Tait will appear before the Heritage committee with Marco Dubé, CBC's chief transformation officer. This is Tait's second time in the hot seat this year. The committee is study...

OTTAWA - India's envoy to Ottawa says Canadians need to rebuild the country's brand as a destination for bright minds, lamenting that a number of international students have died after being exploited. High Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma told the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations that exploitation is undermining t...

OTTAWA - The federal government has agreed to prioritize environmental assessment for a chemical used in tire rubber that has been linked to the deaths of Pacific salmon. The move follows a request by several environmental groups represented by Ecojustice, which shared a copy of a letter from Environment Minister Steve...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - A plane travelling from Paris to Seattle has been forced to make an emergency landing in Iqaluit. Air France says in a statement on social media that there was a heat smell in the cabin during the flight. The Boeing 787 was diverted to Nunavut's capital and landed just before noon local time. Air Fra...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden condemned the "ferocious surge of antisemitism in America and around the world" during a Tuesday ceremony to remember victims of the Holocaust at a time when the Hamas attack on Israel and controversy over the war in Gaza have sparked new waves of violence and hateful rhe...

NEW YORK (AP) - As the third week of witness testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial takes place, all eyes are on who will be called next and whether the former president will be able to abide by the terms of his now twice-broken gag order that bars him from speaking publicly about jurors, witnesses and some other...

NEW YORK (AP) - Donald Trump returns to the hush money trial Tuesday facing a threat of jail time for additional gag order violations as prosecutors gear up to summon big-name witnesses including porn actor Stormy Daniels. An attorney for Daniels, Clark Brewster, told The Associated Press that the porn actor, whose rea...

AMSTERDAM (AP) - Berlin police on Tuesday broke up a protest by several hundred pro-Palestinian activists who had occupied a courtyard on Berlin's Free University earlier in the day. The protesters had put up about 20 tents and formed a human chain around the tents. Police called on the students via loudspeakers to lea...

BERLIN (AP) - Authorities were searching the European parliament office of a prominent German far-right lawmaker in Brussels on Tuesday, Germany's top prosecutor's office said. Maximilian Krah, the Alternative for Germany party's top candidate in the upcoming European Parliament elections, has been under scrutiny after...

Vladimir Putin began his fifth term Tuesday as Russian leader at a glittering Kremlin inauguration, setting out on another six years in office after destroying his political opponents, launching a devastating war in Ukraine and concentrating all power in his hands. Already in office for nearly a quarter-century and the...