The Western Canadian Baseball League's (WCBL) regular season is underway, and the Lethbridge Bulls are gearing up for their first game at home.On Thursday, June 5, 2025, the Bulls will play host to Edmonton's Energy City Cactus Rats.The Cactus Rats, formerly known as the Edmonton Prospects, were the lowest-ranked team ...

Residents of Coaldale can voice their opinions on the work their municipality is doing.The Town of Coaldale's 2025 Community Satisfaction Survey goes over topics like town programs and services, finances and taxes, governance, communication, engagement and quality of life.Mayor Jack Van Rijn says he believes that stron...

The RCMP is continuing to look into an incident that resulted in the death of a senior. Officers and EMS were called to the area of Highway 875 and south of Range Road 141 at approximately 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 1, 2025. The area is about 85 kilometres northeast of Taber. According to the RCMP, a motorcycle left the...

Have you ever met someone who is this lucky?The Western Canada Lottery Corporation has announced the winner of a $1 million prize in Lethbridge.David Serkin has won the lottery for the third time in less than 12 months and the fourth time overall.In 2024, he won $500,000 on the August 20 LOTTO MAX draw and then $1 mill...

The Western Canadian Baseball League's (WCBL) regular season is underway, and the Lethbridge Bulls are gearing up for their first game at home.On Thursday, June 5, 2025, the Bulls will play host to Edmonton's Energy City Cactus Rats.The Cactus Rats, formerly known as the Edmonton Prospects, were the lowest-ranked team ...

Residents of Coaldale can voice their opinions on the work their municipality is doing.The Town of Coaldale's 2025 Community Satisfaction Survey goes over topics like town programs and services, finances and taxes, governance, communication, engagement and quality of life.Mayor Jack Van Rijn says he believes that stron...

The RCMP is continuing to look into an incident that resulted in the death of a senior. Officers and EMS were called to the area of Highway 875 and south of Range Road 141 at approximately 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 1, 2025. The area is about 85 kilometres northeast of Taber. According to the RCMP, a motorcycle left the...

Have you ever met someone who is this lucky?The Western Canada Lottery Corporation has announced the winner of a $1 million prize in Lethbridge.David Serkin has won the lottery for the third time in less than 12 months and the fourth time overall.In 2024, he won $500,000 on the August 20 LOTTO MAX draw and then $1 mill...

Parks Canada says it was left with no choice but to put a bear down in one of southern Alberta's national parks.On the evening of Saturday, May 24, officials received reports of a black bear approaching a hiker on the Cameron Lakeshore Trail in Waterton Lakes National Park."The bear exhibited unusual and aggressiv...

Thousands of people are expected to attend a conference for Jehovah's Witnesses in Lethbridge.The church has announced a free three-day program at the Agri-food Hub & Trade Centre, running from June 6-8, 2025.Spokesperson Brad Pramberg says the event will focus on the theme of "Pure Worship.""This wi...

Premier Danielle Smith and Alberta's delegations will meet with industry leaders in Washington, DC from June 2 to 7 to lay the foundation for advancing North American energy dominance. Brian Jean, minister of energy, and Nathan Neudorf, minister of affordability and utilities, will join Smith to showcase Alberta's posi...

The Alberta government is investing an additional $1.5 million in sexual assault centres to help support access to counselling services for survivors of sexual violence.The province said Friday the investment will further deliver on its April commitment to increase funding for sexual assault centres by $10 million.It s...

RCMP say they have arrested an Alberta teen because investigators believe the youth will commit terrorism offences.Mounties allege a 15-year-old from Edmonton was planning to commit offences related to the COM/764.They say it is a violent online network that lures youth and encourages them to commit sexual acts, self-h...

A group representing Canada's doctors is challenging the constitutionality of Alberta's legislation limiting access to medical treatment for transgender youth, arguing it violates their Charter right to freedom of conscience.The Canadian Medical Association says the court challenge is meant to protect the relationship ...

Teachers across the province could soon be hitting the picket lines.The Alberta Teachers' Association (ATA) says 99 per cent of the nearly 38,000 educators who cast ballots have voted to approve the strike authorization.ATA President Jason Schilling says, "Teachers are standing united in demanding respect and reco...

A new report is warning the annual levy charged to Alberta oil companies to fund the cleanup of orphaned oil and gas wells remains too low to keep up with the rate of surrendering.The report, written by former University of Calgary Public Interest Law Clinic lawyer Drew Yewchuk, says this year's levy rate combined with...

OTTAWA - An association representing duty free stores and a group of 15 border city mayors have written a letter to the federal government asking for financial support and clarity on export rules. The Frontier Duty Free Association says its members have seen their revenue decline by 60 to 80 per cent as cross-border tr...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... More join the thousands fleeing wildfires in Sask. The latest wildfire evacuees in Saskatchewan are arriving in Prince Albert after being ordered to leave the northern town of La Ronge due to a wildfire. The Saskatchewan Public Sa...

OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree is expected to introduce a bill today spelling out the federal government's next steps on border security. The recent throne speech promised legislation to bolster security at Canada's borders and new tools for police and intelligence agencies to help them stop the fl...

The latest wildfire evacuees in Saskatchewan are being told to head south to Prince Albert after being ordered to leave the northern town of La Ronge. The Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency issued an evacuation order Monday afternoon for the 2,500 residents of La Ronge, as well as those in nearby Air Ronge and the Lac L...

The British Columbia government is commissioning an independent review of the province's home-share program, months after an inquest into the starvation death of a woman with Down syndrome in a Port Coquitlam share home. A statement from the Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction says the review will asse...

SASKATOON - Prime Minister Mark Carney says he plans to work urgently to remove Chinese tariffs on Canadian agriculture and seafood products. Carney says Ottawa is speaking with Chinese officials at the ministerial level and that the issue is a top priority for the federal government. The commitment comes after a meeti...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Tuesday that parliament will hold a confidence vote on his government on June 11, as the country faces a "new political reality." He called for the vote after his political ally, the liberal Warsaw mayor, lost Poland's weekend presidential electio...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Far-right lawmaker Geert Wilders pulled his party out of ruling four-party Dutch coalition Tuesday in dispute over a crackdown on migration. Wilders announced his decision in a message on X after a brief meeting in parliament of leaders of the four parties that make up the 11-month-old adm...

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) - Palestinian health officials and witnesses say Israeli forces fired on people as they headed toward an aid distribution site on Tuesday, killing at least 27, in the third such incident in three days. The army said it fired "near a few individual suspects" who left the designated...

ISTANBUL (AP) - Representatives of Russia and Ukraine met Monday for their second round of direct peace talks in just over two weeks, but aside from agreeing to swap thousands of their dead and seriously wounded troops, they made no progress toward ending the 3-year-old war, officials said. The talks unfolded a day aft...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Millions of South Koreans are voting Tuesday for a new president in a snap election triggered by the ouster of Yoon Suk Yeol, a conservative who now faces an explosive trial on rebellion charges over his short-lived imposition of martial law in December. Pre-election surveys suggested Yoon's l...

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - A man accused of using a makeshift flamethrower and an incendiary device to attack a group in Boulder, Colorado, that had gathered to bring attention to Israeli hostages in Gaza, has been charged with a federal hate crime, according to court documents filed Monday. The suspect, Mohamed Sabry Solim...