The host Lethbridge Elks have been knocked out at the Alberta/Montana AA State baseball tournament, falling 12-5 Monday to the Billings Scarlets. Head coach Scott Oikawa elaborated on his team's performance after the game."You just hope you play well. That wasn't necessarily the case in our first and third game,&q...

The third and final Foodie Fest of the year goes Tuesday on the streets of Downtown Lethbridge. Business Revitalization Zone executive director Sarah Amies points out there's a reason why they decided to keep it to three."We tended to find things slowed down a lot in August. People are traditionally away, particul...

The search for an 81-year-old man last seen over a week ago in Waterton Lakes National Park continued, again, Monday. Parks Canada, in a 1 p.m. Facebook posting, said it continues to focus on a certain section of the park, described as rugged and mountainous.Bob Toothill was last seen at the Rowe Lake Trailhead on Sund...

Lethbridge Police Service are investigating three separate attacks over the course of less than 48 hours, two of which have now resulted in charges. The first, a fight between two men, occurred on Friday evening at around 8:30 in Galt Gardens, and saw one of the males strike the other with a pipe. The 44-year-old victi...

Edmonton has broken a record for the wettest summer on record and it isn't even August. Brian Proctor, meteorologist at Environment and Climate Change Canada, says the wettest summer on record in the capital city was more than 70 years ago. In 1953, the city received 417 millimetres of rain from June through August. Th...

Beginning Friday, Albertans will be able to pay out-of-pocket to bypass medical referral for diagnostic screening tests like an MRI or an ultrasound. The announcement by Premier Danielle Smith follows up on legislation passed by her United Conservative government this spring. Patients will pay for the tests when they r...

A search is underway in Waterton Lakes National Park for an 81-year-old man who hasn't been seen or heard from since last Sunday, July 19.Bob Toothill, a resident of Golden, B.C., had said he was planning to hike Section A of the Great Divide Trail, eventually to arrive in Coleman, in the Crowsnest Pass, on July 22.Too...

MLAs Angela Pitt, Glenn van Dijken and Chelsae Petrovic will attend the National Conference of State Legislatures in Chicago this week.From July 25-30, they will meet with and attempt to advance trade priorities with U.S. state legislators, the Government of Alberta notes in a release.According to the province, the sum...

The host Lethbridge Elks have been knocked out at the Alberta/Montana AA State baseball tournament, falling 12-5 Monday to the Billings Scarlets. Head coach Scott Oikawa elaborated on his team's performance after the game."You just hope you play well. That wasn't necessarily the case in our first and third game,&q...

The Kainai First Nation is getting ready to celebrate the grand opening of its new Twin Rinks Friday, August 14th. As part of the event, they're hoping to have photos up on display of some of the community former hockey stars, like Wacey Rabbit and Marvin Fox.Basically, they're looking for 'anything hockey' that might ...

The host Lethbridge Elks remain alive at the Alberta/Montana American Legion AA State Baseball Tournament being played at Spitz Stadium.After falling 10-2 to the Billings Royals Saturday evening, the Elks rebounded Sunday afternoon with an 11-1 decision over the Great Falls Chargers in the double knockout championship....

The Canadian Grain Commission is updating grading procedures for amber durum, wheat and lentils for the 2026-27 crop year, which begins August 1.In a release Wednesday, the CGC said the revisions will include updated procedures, definitions, and photo reference material. New grading factors will include: darkened and s...

New traceability requirements for beef cattle proposed by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency have been shelved. The move followed a large influx of industry opposition with producers calling the new rules too burdensome. Heather Brown, the CFIA's national manager of humane transport and livestock traceability programs...

The first window of time for farmers in Alberta and Saskatchewan to obtain strychnine to deal with burgeoning ground squirrel populations is about to run out, and many producers are now hoping for better luck next spring.Wade Nelson, who farms near High River, Alta., about 66 kilometres south of Calgary, said it's best...

OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Lena Diab says that, starting today, online passport renewal is open to all eligible Canadian adults. To qualify, applicants must have an address in Canada, be older than 16 when they got their last passport, and must have...

OTTAWA - CBC/Radio-Canada won't disclose how much participating in the Eurovision song contest could cost, while a government document notes the tab for the international cultural event has hit $1.5 million in other countries. "Such information is gene...

WASHINGTON - Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc is set to travel to Washington this week after United States President Donald Trump threatened to slap new tariffs on an array of Canadian goods starting next month. LeBlanc's spokesperson Gabriel...

TORONTO - Two Ontario residents face charges after a Competition Bureau probe found they allegedly misled Canadians into thinking they were dealing directly with the federal government's passport service. York Regional Police charged John Jesse Breslin...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... U.S. consulate in Toronto shot at for second time this year, suspect vehicle flees Efforts by police to identify who fired at the U.S. consulate in Toronto on Mo...

CLINTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - Conservation officers in British Columbia discovered numerous illegal campfires during spot checks over the weekend, as wildfire crews battle out-of-control blazes that are threatening communities in the south of the...

SEATTLE (AP) - The 15-year-old arrested after a shootout at food festival near Seattle's Space Needle over the weekend was armed with a ghost gun with an extended magazine, police said Tuesday. Police Chief Shon Barnes told a news confer...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) - A former police officer convicted of the on-duty rape and murder of a young girl was put to death Tuesday, the first of two lethal injections planned for a single day in Florida, hours before an 80-year-old man was to become the sec...

GENEVA (AP) - FIFA President Gianni Infantino's plan to create a $20 billion company running the World Cup with private investors including the Kushner family was announced Tuesday - and immediately attacked by European soccer body UEFA. ...