LETHBRIDGE, AB - A cheerleading club in Lethbridge is celebrating recent success.Teams from Peak Elite Cheerleading competed at the Canadian Cheer Nationals in Niagara Falls, Ontario April 12-14, 2024.The big highlight of the weekend was a national championship title win for one of Peak Elite's teams, Yetis. Officials ...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge has been selected to host two more curling championships in 2025.The 2025 U SPORTS/Curling Canada Canadian University Championships and the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association/Curling Canada Canadian College Championships will be held in the city.Nolan Thiessen, Chief Executive Officer of...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A young learner in Lethbridge has won a provincial award.Sturgis Big Bull, a grade one student at Galbraith Elementary School, has received an Alberta School Boards Association (ASBA) 2024 Honouring Spirit: Indigenous Student Award.The program recognizes First Nation, Métis and Inuit students wh...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A local post-secondary student is set to receive an award for her work helping in the community. Talayna Ekelund will receive the University of Lethbridge (U of L) Volunteer Award at the Spring 2024 Convocation.In one year alone, the U of L says the anthropology and pre-education student logged more th...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A cheerleading club in Lethbridge is celebrating recent success.Teams from Peak Elite Cheerleading competed at the Canadian Cheer Nationals in Niagara Falls, Ontario April 12-14, 2024.The big highlight of the weekend was a national championship title win for one of Peak Elite's teams, Yetis. Officials ...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge has been selected to host two more curling championships in 2025.The 2025 U SPORTS/Curling Canada Canadian University Championships and the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association/Curling Canada Canadian College Championships will be held in the city.Nolan Thiessen, Chief Executive Officer of...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A young learner in Lethbridge has won a provincial award.Sturgis Big Bull, a grade one student at Galbraith Elementary School, has received an Alberta School Boards Association (ASBA) 2024 Honouring Spirit: Indigenous Student Award.The program recognizes First Nation, Métis and Inuit students wh...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A local post-secondary student is set to receive an award for her work helping in the community. Talayna Ekelund will receive the University of Lethbridge (U of L) Volunteer Award at the Spring 2024 Convocation.In one year alone, the U of L says the anthropology and pre-education student logged more th...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - There will be some local representation at the Calgary Stampede this summer.The Lethbridge Lodging Association has announced that its consumer-facing brand, VisitLethbridge.com, has secured a sponsorship of a renowned chuckwagon racer. Chance Thomson will be competing in the 2024 Rangeland Derby at the...

Providing accurate, balanced and current information is an important way to promote agriculture education in Canadian classrooms.Agriculture in the Classroom Canada (AITC-C) has partnered with CropLife Canada to develop three curriculum-linked resources for educators and students across the country.Grade 10 and 11 stud...

EDMONTON, AB - Documents released under Alberta Freedom of Information laws confirm the United Conservative government was talking with the coal industry for years about relaxing a policy that protected the Rocky Mountains from open-pit mines. The documents also show the province was talking about opening those landsca...

The tourism industry is back and better than ever.Travel Alberta reports that international visitors spent $2.53 billion in the province in just the first three quarters of 2023. In the last year before the COVID-19 pandemic began, international tourism spending totalled $2.28 billion for all of 2019.Minister of Touris...

The Alberta government must produce thousands of documents on its attempts to encourage coal mining in the Rocky Mountains after a judge threw out a bid to block their release. In denying the government's request for a judicial review into an order to provide the documents, Justice Kent Teskey warned the province that ...

A state-of-the-art milk concentration plant is under construction in Blackfalds, Alberta.Dairy Innovation West (DIW) is the first of its kind in Canada. The $75 million facility is owned by the Western Milk Pool that is supporting processing expansion in Western Canada and to reduce transportation costs for Western Mil...

OTTAWA - The first instalment of the 2024 Canada carbon rebate will be delivered to some Canadians today as long as they filed their taxes by the middle of March. Canadians living in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and all four Atlantic provinces will receive the first of four instalments today if they filed ...

At Calgary's Centre for Newcomers, where Kelly Ernst is chief program officer, staff have been - in Ernst's words - "run off their feet."The non-profit organization, which offers services and language training to immigrants and refugees in Alberta's largest city, served an eye-popping 50,000 clients last year...

EDMONTON, AB - Documents released under Alberta Freedom of Information laws confirm the United Conservative government was talking with the coal industry for years about relaxing a policy that protected the Rocky Mountains from open-pit mines. The documents also show the province was talking about opening those landsca...

MONTREAL - A Quebec Superior Court judge has authorized a class-action lawsuit against 16 pharmaceutical companies that are alleged to have misled consumers about the efficacy and dangers of opioid medications. The class action includes everyone in Quebec who was diagnosed with opioid use disorder after being prescribe...

MONTREAL - The organization that oversees Montreal's Olympic Stadium is holding an international competition to find a second life for the building's tattered, old roof. The Olympic Park has launched a contest on how best to recycle and reuse the materials and components that are set to be dismantled this summer. Quebe...

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts in March declined seven per cent compared with February.The national housing agency says the seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts amounted to 242,195 units in March compared with 260,047 in February.When looking at year-over-year figu...

OTTAWA, ON - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is finally set to present the federal budget in the House of Commons Tuesday afternoon, showcasing how the government plans to win back support from disgruntled Canadians worried about the cost of living.The Liberal government has already unveiled significant planks of th...

Providing accurate, balanced and current information is an important way to promote agriculture education in Canadian classrooms.Agriculture in the Classroom Canada (AITC-C) has partnered with CropLife Canada to develop three curriculum-linked resources for educators and students across the country.Grade 10 and 11 stud...

WASHINGTON (AP) - House impeachment managers walked two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas across the Capitol to the Senate on Tuesday, forcing senators to convene a trial on the allegations that he has "willfully and systematically" refused to enforce immigration l...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday ordered the closure of his country's embassy and consulates in Ecuador in solidarity with Mexico in its protest over a raid by Ecuadorian authorities on the Mexican embassy in Quito. Maduro made his announcement during a meeting of the leaders of t...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A federal appeals court has overturned a West Virginia transgender sports ban, finding that the law violates Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools. The ruling Tuesday from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocks a West Virginia law bannin...

NEW YORK (AP) - Donald Trump returned to a New York courtroom Tuesday as a judge works to find a panel of jurors who will decide whether the former president is guilty of criminal charges alleging he falsified business records to cover up a sex scandal during the 2016 campaign. The first day of Trump's history-making h...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - One of Copenhagen's oldest buildings is on fire and its iconic spire has collapsed. The roof of the 17th-century old Stock Exchange, or Boersen, that was once Denmark's financial center, was engulfed in flames Tuesday. The building, which is situated next to the Christiansborg Palace where th...

SYDNEY (AP) - Australian police say a knife attack in Sydney that wounded a bishop and a priest during a church service as horrified worshippers watched online and in person was an act of terrorism. Police arrested a 16-year-old boy Tuesday after the stabbing at Christ the Good Shepherd Church that injured Bishop Mar M...