LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Lethbridge Police Service is warning the public of a cougar sighting on the west side of the city.Police received reports of a cougar sighting north of the University of Lethbridge along Whoop Up Drive on May 18, 2024, around 1 p.m.Fish and Wildlife officers have been called in to assist.READ MORE:...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Here is a breakdown of some of the top stories from Lethbridge News Now for May 12 to May 18, 2024. PROPERTY TAXESAn increase to property taxes was approved in Lethbridge.READ MORE: Property tax hikes approved in LethbridgeTRAINING MORE DOCTORSThe University of Lethbridge and University of Calgary are ...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Business owners and residents in downtown are advised of upcoming construction work in the area. The City of Lethbridge says work will begin the week of May 27, 2024.A summary of the planned activities is as follows:7 Street South: 5 Avenue to 6 AvenueParking area upgrades and resurfacing: Crews will s...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - There are plenty of events this long weekend, and Lethbridge News Now has the details.Food Truck Fridays and Vendor Market - May 17, 2024Food Truck Fridays returns to Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden on Friday. The trucks and market will bet at the garden every Friday until mid September.Dan Duvall - May 17-...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Lethbridge Police Service is warning the public of a cougar sighting on the west side of the city.Police received reports of a cougar sighting north of the University of Lethbridge along Whoop Up Drive on May 18, 2024, around 1 p.m.Fish and Wildlife officers have been called in to assist.READ MORE:...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Here is a breakdown of some of the top stories from Lethbridge News Now for May 12 to May 18, 2024. PROPERTY TAXESAn increase to property taxes was approved in Lethbridge.READ MORE: Property tax hikes approved in LethbridgeTRAINING MORE DOCTORSThe University of Lethbridge and University of Calgary are ...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Business owners and residents in downtown are advised of upcoming construction work in the area. The City of Lethbridge says work will begin the week of May 27, 2024.A summary of the planned activities is as follows:7 Street South: 5 Avenue to 6 AvenueParking area upgrades and resurfacing: Crews will s...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - There are plenty of events this long weekend, and Lethbridge News Now has the details.Food Truck Fridays and Vendor Market - May 17, 2024Food Truck Fridays returns to Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden on Friday. The trucks and market will bet at the garden every Friday until mid September.Dan Duvall - May 17-...

Get ready to pitch your tents as the May long weekend marks the start of camping season in Alberta.There are more than 470 provincial parks and recreation areas, including 250 campgrounds, which can accommodate nearly 14,000 campsites. Alberta offers a variety of sites, including those that are reservable, available on...

COALDALE, AB - Residents in a southern Alberta town will soon be able to benefit from a rain barrel rebate program.During its meeting on Monday, May 13, 2024, Coaldale Council voted unanimously to implement the program. It will provide residents and businesses with a 50 per cent rebate on the purchase of a rain barrel,...

As people travel on highway one, they will trip onto Walsh, right in the heart of Cypress County. Some travellers might just pass by Walsh, but now there's a major reason to stop and take a rest.The Cypress County Welcome Centre is now open to visitors. Kylie Stennick, a college student and one of the four staff member...

Business owners and residents in downtown are advised of upcoming construction work in the area. The City of Lethbridge says work will begin the week of May 27, 2024.A summary of the planned activities is as follows:7 Street South: 5 Avenue to 6 AvenueParking area upgrades and resurfacing: Crews will start asphalt resu...

FORT MCMURRAY, AB - The evacuation order and alert, and the state of emergency has been lifted for the Fort McMurray area.Evacuees from Abasand, Beacon Hill, Prairie Creek, and Grayling Terrace may now return home. Officials say that rainfall in the area and efforts from firefighters have contained the fire on the nort...

The commodity groups that make up Team Alberta Crops have wrote to two provincial ministers outlining concerns over a possible railway strike.The letter to Minister of Transport and Economic Corridors, Devin Dreeshan and Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation, RJ Sigurdson says a strike would be "a serious threat ...

It will be cooler this weekend, but Hatters will still want to keep and eye on where they step. According to Snakes on a Plain founder Sheri Monk, it's snake season."People have been seeing them actually. They've been dispersing from their dens for the past two to three weeks. They don't all leave on the same day,...

Four Calgary homicides from the 1970s have been linked to a serial killer. The RCMP's Historical Homicide Unit (HHU) has been working on the cases, and the RCMP in Alberta has been investigating since their deaths. Eva Dvorak and Patricia McQueen The earliest of the cases dates back to February 14, 1976, when 14-year-o...

TORONTO - The Prime Minister's Office has announced a federal byelection will be held in the Ontario riding of Toronto-St. Paul's on June 24 to fill the seat left vacant by longtime Liberal cabinet minister Carolyn Bennett. Bennett announced in December that she was retiring as an MP after 26 years in the House of Com...

MONTREAL - A 55-year-old woman is dead and her former partner is facing charges in what police say is Montreal's 13th homicide of the year. Police were called Saturday evening to an apartment in the Villeray-Saint-Michel-Parc-Extension borough, where they found the victim with fatal upper body wounds. Police spokesman ...

TORONTO - It was early May and wildfire season had already started to rage in Western Canada when seven people settled into a monthly support-group meeting over Zoom. The facilitator, Toronto-based Kady Cowan, opened the conversation by prompting others to acknowledge any climate change-related concerns weighing on t...

OTTAWA - As Canada's strategy for supporting Rohingya people expires, advocates are calling for a rethink of how Ottawa is trying to limit suffering in refugee camps in Bangladesh, and to rout the military junta overseeing ethnic violence in Myanmar. "We cannot turn away from this," said Bob Rae, Canada's amb...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Lawyers are questioning Canada's approach to screening visa applications for people in Gaza with extended family in Canada after one applicant, a medical worker, was asked whether he had treated members of Hamas. The Canadian Press obtained a redacted letter sent to the applicant by a Canadian immigr...

MONTREAL - It's 2:55 a.m. on a recent evening at Blue Dog bar, in Montreal's Plateau district. A bell rings, the bartender shouts, "last call," and a handful of people wander to the bar for one more drink. Slight variations of this scene occur across the city every night, as bars and venues are prohibited - m...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Xander Schauffele cashed in at just the right time Sunday by making a six-foot birdie putt on the final hole to win the PGA Championship for his first major with the lowest score in major championship history. The Olympic gold medallist got something even more valuable in silver - that enormous W...

ATLANTA (AP) - President Joe Biden on Sunday told the graduating class at Morehouse College that he heard their voices of protest over the Israel-Hamas war, and that scenes from the conflict in Gaza have been heartbreaking. "I support peaceful nonviolent protest," he told students, some who wore keffiyeh scar...

BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia (AP) - Slovakia's populist prime minister, Robert Fico, remained in serious condition on Sunday but has been given a positive prognosis four days after he was shot multiple times in an assassination attempt that has sent shockwaves across the deeply polarized European Union nation, the defense...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a "hard landing" on Sunday, Iranian state television reported, without immediately elaborating. Raisi was traveling in Iran's East Azerbaijan province. State TV said the incident happened near Jolfa, a city on th...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Congo's army says it "foiled a coup" early Sunday morning and arrested the perpetrators, including several foreigners, following a shootout between armed men in military uniform and guards of a close ally of Congo's president that left three people dead in the capital, Kinshasa. At firs...

Seize the Grey went wire to wire to win the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, giving 88-year-old Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas a seventh victory in the race and ending Mystik Dan's Triple Crown bid. The grey colt took advantage of the muddy track just like Lukas hoped he would, pulling off the upset in a second conse...