Votes for the 2026 Kraft Hockeyville contest open at 7 a.m. on Friday, April 3, as Taber goes head-to-head with Tumbler Ridge, B.C., in the national final.The voting runs until 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 4, with the winner set to receive $250,000 in arena upgrades and the chance to host an NHL pre-season game.Hockey Nig...

Members of the Rotary Club of Lethbridge Sunrise will be departing Sunday to deliver emergency and service vehicles to communities in need down in Mexico.This will be the local Rotary club's 13th year participating in the Los Amigos campaign, with members from Lethbridge, Grande Prairie, and more transporting 2 fire tr...

Officials with the City of Lethbridge say the next step for a key connector project is ready to roll.The fully paved, multi-use, three-kilometre Crowsnest Trail Pathway will connect the high-traffic corridor between Mayor Magrath Drive South and the WT Hill Business Park area. Once complete, the city says it will offer...

The Southern Alberta Ethnic Association (SAEA) is inviting the community to celebrate a milestone as it marks 10 years of operating from the Multicultural Centre in Lethbridge.Founded in 1977, the SAEA says it has, for five decades, promoted multicultural understanding and celebrated the region's diversity. Since reloc...

Votes for the 2026 Kraft Hockeyville contest open at 7 a.m. on Friday, April 3, as Taber goes head-to-head with Tumbler Ridge, B.C., in the national final.The voting runs until 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 4, with the winner set to receive $250,000 in arena upgrades and the chance to host an NHL pre-season game.Hockey Nig...

Members of the Rotary Club of Lethbridge Sunrise will be departing Sunday to deliver emergency and service vehicles to communities in need down in Mexico.This will be the local Rotary club's 13th year participating in the Los Amigos campaign, with members from Lethbridge, Grande Prairie, and more transporting 2 fire tr...

Officials with the City of Lethbridge say the next step for a key connector project is ready to roll.The fully paved, multi-use, three-kilometre Crowsnest Trail Pathway will connect the high-traffic corridor between Mayor Magrath Drive South and the WT Hill Business Park area. Once complete, the city says it will offer...

The Southern Alberta Ethnic Association (SAEA) is inviting the community to celebrate a milestone as it marks 10 years of operating from the Multicultural Centre in Lethbridge.Founded in 1977, the SAEA says it has, for five decades, promoted multicultural understanding and celebrated the region's diversity. Since reloc...

The City of Lethbridge is advising residents of service level changes planned for the Easter long weekend.Lethbridge 311The Lethbridge 311 contact centre and in-person at City Hall will be closed on Good Friday and Easter Monday.For urgent issues, a 24-hr trouble line is available by calling 311.City HallCity Hall will...

The Canada Border Services Agency shared Thursday that it recently seized 86.9 kg of suspected cocaine at the Coutts border crossing.CBSA officers were examining a commercial truck on Feb. 15; it had been declared that the truck was carrying produce bound for Calgary.During the search, officers found 70 bricks of suspe...

The Government of Alberta is reminding Albertans of upcoming eligibility for COVID-19 vaccinations.Starting April 7, eligible Albertans can receive an additional immunization at no cost at participating pharmacies or Primary Care Alberta public health clinics.According to the province, eligibility criteria is in line w...

There was an earthquake in Alberta on April 1, and that's no joke.According to Earthquakes Canada, the Magnitude 4.5 tremor struck around 5:30 p.m., 18 km northeast of Morinville.There are reports of it being lightly felt as far south as Bowden, and in other areas like Whitecourt, Lesser Slave Lake, and Lakeland Provin...

The provincial government announced they're investing $9 million over the next three years for capital projects at local seed co-operatives to help address aging infrastructure.If passed, the funds would come from the 2026 budget and be allocated to the Co-operative Seed Processors program to help co-operative and muni...

The provincial government is set to invest $4.1 million over three years into its electronic monitoring program.The investment, which comes from the 2026 budget, will expand the program for further supervision of repeat offenders and provide victims with alerts when their safety may be at risk.How it works: participati...

The president of the teachers union in Alberta says the government's suggestion that educators don't act with integrity or present issues in a balanced way is offensive. Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides tabled a bill this week that he says is aimed at getting politics and ideology out of classrooms. The bill, an...

Alberta's government is proposing changes to give it more oversight on who hires temporary foreign workers. Jobs Minister Joseph Schow has introduced a bill that, if passed, will require businesses to register with the province before hiring foreign nationals through the federal program. The process will effectively du...

VANCOUVER - As spring blooms in British Columbia, the brilliant orange-and black pattern of a monarch butterfly's wing and the distinctive cream cap on a black male bobolink songbird are a rare sight. Both remain on B.C.'s endangered species list, a s...

TABER - A southern Alberta community that lost its only two ice rinks after a Zamboni explosion has been named the Kraft Hockeyville 2026 winner. Taber, Alta., was one of two finalists, along with Tumbler Ridge, B.C., vying for the prize this year, whi...

Toronto's largest food bank says it's been dealing with crisis after crisis as the war in Iran makes it even more expensive to feed the thousands of food insecure Torontonians who rely on it. Neil Hetherington, CEO of the Daily Bread Food Bank, said f...

EDMONTON - Alberta's hospitals minister says a patient seeking care at a major Edmonton emergency room was taken into custody after attacking another patient on Friday. Matt Jones says in a social media post that Edmonton police and other hospital pers...

TORONTO - Fans of Italy's national soccer team may be disappointed their team won't be in the 2026 World Cup, but at least some of them got a consolation prize. More than 100 fans lined up outside Café Diplomatico on a grey Toronto morning for a Canad...

OTTAWA - The fallout from the war in the Middle East has led to cuts in helium supplies for health services in at least one province - and experts are warning that Canada still hasn't done enough to secure sovereignty over critical medical supply chain...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A U.S. service member who has been missing since Iran shot down a fighter jet has been rescued, President Donald Trump wrote in a social media post early Sunday. A frantic U.S. search-and-rescue operation unfolded after ...

HOUSTON (AP) - Now more than halfway to the moon, the Artemis II astronauts prepared for their historic lunar fly-around to push deeper into space than even the Apollo astronauts. On the downside, their toilet is on the blink again. ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.8 rattled parts of northern and eastern Afghanistan and western Pakistan late Friday, killing at least eight people in Afghanistan, authorities said. The region is...

BANGKOK (AP) - Myanmar's parliament on Friday elected Min Aung Hlaing, a general who ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian government in 2021 and kept an iron grip on power for the past five years, as the country's new president. The move m...

HAVANA (AP) - The Cuban government said Thursday it would release 2,010 prisoners in a move that comes while the Trump administration puts extreme pressure on the island's government with a suffocating oil blockade. The announcement said ...

After crashing his SUV last week in Florida, Tiger Woods took out his phone and told a deputy, "I was just talking to the president," according to body camera footage released Thursday showing Woods' arrest on a DUI charge. The phone conv...