Two people have been apprehended in connection with an investigation into drug trafficking.Earlier this month, members of the Crime Suppression Team looked into reports about suspicious activity at a west side residence.They reportedly observed activities consistent with drug trafficking at a home on the 700 block of C...

Nathan Neudorf assures residents that he is, in no way, involved in his own recall petition.Elections Alberta announced on Nov. 25, 2025, that it had approved a petition to recall the MLA for Lethbridge-East.When he first heard the news, Neudorf says he was disappointed but not surprised.Currently, around two dozen pro...

A trio of new surveys are providing insights into the quality of life, business, and municipal services in Lethbridge. Members of the City of Lethbridge's Economic & Finance Standing Policy Committee (SPC) were presented with the results of questionnaires from the City of Lethbridge and the Lethbridge Chamber of Co...

A 66-year-old Vauxhall resident has died after a motor vehicle collision on Thursday afternoon near Scandia.Brooks RCMP received a call about a collision between a semi-truck and an SUV on Highway 36 near Township Road 154 at about 1:14 p.m. on Dec. 11, 2025.Mounties said the highway in the area was covered in black ic...

Two people have been apprehended in connection with an investigation into drug trafficking.Earlier this month, members of the Crime Suppression Team looked into reports about suspicious activity at a west side residence.They reportedly observed activities consistent with drug trafficking at a home on the 700 block of C...

Nathan Neudorf assures residents that he is, in no way, involved in his own recall petition.Elections Alberta announced on Nov. 25, 2025, that it had approved a petition to recall the MLA for Lethbridge-East.When he first heard the news, Neudorf says he was disappointed but not surprised.Currently, around two dozen pro...

A trio of new surveys are providing insights into the quality of life, business, and municipal services in Lethbridge. Members of the City of Lethbridge's Economic & Finance Standing Policy Committee (SPC) were presented with the results of questionnaires from the City of Lethbridge and the Lethbridge Chamber of Co...

A 66-year-old Vauxhall resident has died after a motor vehicle collision on Thursday afternoon near Scandia.Brooks RCMP received a call about a collision between a semi-truck and an SUV on Highway 36 near Township Road 154 at about 1:14 p.m. on Dec. 11, 2025.Mounties said the highway in the area was covered in black ic...

Crowsnest Pass RCMP are requesting public assistance in an armed robbery investigation.On Dec. 11, 2025, around 1 a.m., Crowsnest Pass RCMP responded to a call of an armed robbery at the Greenhill Tavern located at 12326 - 20 Avenue in Blairmore.Mounties say that two suspects entered the tavern, brandishing a can of be...

Canada's most festively decorated train is making its return to the region.Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) Rail has announced the schedule for its 2025 Holiday Train.The first batch of stops, running from Friday, Dec. 12 to Sunday, Dec. 14, will feature the headlining musical act, Barenaked Ladies.Barenaked Ladies ...

Alberta's early-learning and child-care fees will remain at $15-a-day through to 2027 as it works with Ottawa to firm up a more permanent deal.The two jointly announced an extension on the current deal, with the federal government providing Alberta more than $1.17-billion dollars in funding.It will extend both the earl...

Alberta RCMP removed 50 impaired drivers from the roads on Saturday, Dec. 6 as part of their role in National Impaired Driving Enforcement Day.Of the 50 drivers, 28 received Immediate Roadside Sanctions FAILS, 13 received WARNS, and six novice or commercial drivers were removed for IRS ZEROES."These statistics are...

Alberta's teachers are accusing the province of bad faith bargaining over the recent strike.Jason Schilling, the head of the Alberta Teachers' Association, says they have filed a complaint with the Alberta Labour Relations Board against the government's bargaining agent.Schilling says during the labour standoff, the go...

Elections Alberta is getting $6.7 million in extra funding to handle the sudden outburst of recall petitions against legislature members.A legislature committee unanimously granted the funding at a meeting today.Chief electoral officer Gordon McClure requested the extra money because his office is managing 21 active re...

Two advocacy groups fighting the Alberta government on transgender laws say they are switching tactics to continue their battle in court.The renewed challenge from the groups Egale and Skipping Stone comes one day after Premier Danielle Smith's government used the Charter's notwithstanding clause.The clause allows gove...

Alberta MLAs Jennifer Johnson and Shane Getson are planning to build on a year of engagement with U.S. state legislators at the Council of State Governments National Conference in Chicago. That's according to Alberta government officials who say the MLA for Lacombe-Ponoka Jennifer Johnson and MLA for Lac Ste. Anne-Park...

A new international study suggests thousands of glaciers across Canada's Arctic could be saved from total extinction if humanity can bend the curve on global warming. Yet, the study offers a grim outlook for the world's glaciers, suggesting close to 8...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Prime Minister Mark Carney's government is practising "counterfeit Conservatism." Poilievre says while Carney likes to copy his ideas - ending the consumer carbon price, for example - his government wo...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are dangling hints about more possible floor crossings today following the defection of Ontario MP Michael Ma to the Liberals last week. When asked whether more opposition MPs are getting ready to cross the floor to join t...

OTTAWA - Natural Resource Minister Tim Hodgson says he'll launch a task force early in the new year to look at ways to ensure the long-term health of the softwood lumber industry. Speaking in Toronto, Hodgson says the group will bring recommendations f...

OTTAWA - Canada's annual inflation rate was 2.2 per cent in November, Statistics Canada says. The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that figures may have fluctuated widely because they are based on small statistical samples (pr...

OTTAWA - Canada's annual inflation rate was 2.2 per cent in November, Statistics Canada says. Here's what happened in the provinces (previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland and Labrador: 2.2 per cent (2.0) - Prince Edward Island: 1.4 per cent (1.4)...

BOSTON (AP) - Brian Walshe was found guilty Monday of killing his wife, whose body has never been found after she disappeared from their Massachusetts home on New Year's Day nearly three years ago. Ana Walshe, an immigrant ...

LONDON (AP) - President Vladimir Putin is stalling efforts to end Russia's war on Ukraine, and is testing the West with tactics that fall "just below the threshold of war," the head of Britain's MI6 spy agency said Monday. ...

BERLIN (AP) - Russia has indicated it's open to Ukraine joining the European Union as part of a potential peace deal aimed at ending Russia's war on Ukraine, and there's now consensus on about 90% of the U.S.-authored peace plan, U.S. of...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Federal authorities on Monday announced the arrests of four alleged members of an extremist group who are suspected of planning coordinated bombing attacks on New Year's Eve across Southern California. Th...

SYDNEY (AP) - Australian leaders promised Monday to immediately overhaul already-tough gun control laws after a mass shooting targeted a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney's Bondi Beach. At least 15 people died in the attack, which has fuele...

HONG KONG (AP) - Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, was convicted in a landmark national security trial in the city's court on Monday, which could send him to prison for the rest of...