Crime & Courts

No injuries after new driver hits downtown medical clinic Tuesday

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge Police are reminding those with learner's licenses, they must have someone over the age of 18, and who does not have a Graduated Driver's License with them, at all times wh...

Jul 31, 2019 A car drives into the side of the Haig Medical Clinic Thursday morning (Photo credit: Levi Penno)

Alleged rape victim and north side residents address criminal activity

LETHBRIDGE -- Residents of a north side neighbourhood have become proactive in their approach to dealing with a spate of crime in their area and they are encouraging others to do likewise.Let's be cle...

Jul 30, 2019 Sample of signs posted in north side neighbourhood

Judge to allow testimony via CCTV in upcoming historical sex assault trial

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Court of Queen's Bench Justice Johnna Kubik has ruled that a Crown application to have two witnesses testify via CCTV in an upcoming sexual assault trial, will be granted.The applicat...

Jul 30, 2019 Lethbridge Courthouse (Lethbridge News NOW)

Judge to rule whether to allow testimony via CCTV in upcoming historic sex assault trial

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A Lethbridge judge will decide Tuesday, July 30, whether two complainants/witnesses who are expected to testify in a second historical sex assault case involving a 50-year-old man fro...

Jul 29, 2019 Lethbridge Courthouse (Lethbridge News NOW)

Stephan trial resumes with testimony from former Alberta medical examiner

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A Court of Queen's Bench trial for David and Collet Stephan that was originally scheduled to conclude at the end of June, continued in Lethbridge Monday, July 29.David and Collet are ...

Jul 29, 2019 David and Collet Stephan (Lethbridge News NOW)

Alberta RCMP apologize for poor investigation into Indigenous woman's death

EDMONTON - The commanding officer of the RCMP in Alberta has apologized to the family of an Indigenous woman who disappeared nine years ago and whose killer has never been found.Amber Tuccaro was 20 y...

Jul 25, 2019 Amber Tuccaro

WARNING: Graphic details - "I loved them" - April Irving says as she pleads guilty to charges under the Animal Protection Act

LETHBRIDGE, AB - WARNING: THIS STORY CONTAINS GRAPHIC DETAILS NOT SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. A 59-year-old woman from Milk River, Alberta who was facing more than a dozen animal cruelty related charges fr...

Jul 24, 2019 April Irving leaves Lethbridge Provincial Court July 24, 2019 (Lethbridge News NOW)

Police seek B.C. murder suspects in swamp, bush, bugs of northern Manitoba

The deputy mayor of a remote northern Manitoba town says residents are locking their doors earlier than usual after word of a police manhunt in the area for two suspects in the deaths o...

Jul 24, 2019

Robert John Sheppard acquitted of attempted murder; convicted of 8 other offences

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Judge G.S. Maxwell told a Lethbridge Provincial courtroom the terror was "palpable" at a home on Heritage Boulevard West, the night of April 15, 2018. However there was not enough evi...

Justin Goulet Jul 22, 2019 Lethbridge Courthouse

Lethbridge achieves first place position on the latest Stats-Can Crime Index

OTTAWA -- It's a first place posting that is nothing to brag about. Lethbridge holds the unenviable top ranking in the Statistics Canada 2018 Crime Index. Following right behind Lethbridge was Regina ...

Jul 22, 2019 2018 Crime Index from Statistics Canada