In what's become an annual tradition, residents of Upper Victoria Park in Lethbridge will be putting on Neighbour Day this coming Saturday, June 13th.Heather Oxman, the neighbourhood association's board chair, says, except during the pandemic, it's been held every year since 2013."We have a lot of fun at it. It's ...

A decision by Canada's heritage minister to put $600 million towards the country's film and movie industry to eliminate the, so called, 'Netflix' tax doesn't make a lot of sense to one Alberta politician. Conservative and Lethbridge MP Rachael Thomas points out taxpayers will still have to 'foot the bill' regardless.&q...

A charity motorcycle ride returning later this month aims to help a four-year-old Bow Island boy gain greater mobility by purchasing robotic legs.Riders from across southeastern Alberta are coming together for the sixth annual Ridin' for Kids Foundation fundraiser on June 20.It will raise money for Emerson Wikkerink. A...

The Sylvan Lake Gulls managed to snap a three-game losing skid Sunday afternoon, but in the process ended the Lethbridge Bulls' four-game win streak.Scoring nine runs in the top of the 3rd, the Gulls would go on to beat the Toros 16-0, in game that would see the home side commit five errors.Sylvan Lake's three runs in ...

With an upcoming referendum in the Fall, Elections Alberta says it's launching its largest-ever recruitment campaign of event workers.With ten questions on the slate, it added it will need to print 45 million ballots, almost two million more than the number of ballots cast in the province's 2023 general election."...

Alberta's Adam Macko has done it again.In just his 11th appearance in Major League Baseball, the 25-year-old Vauxhall Baseball Academy graduate earned his second career win on the mound as the Toronto Blue Jays rallied to beat the Baltimore Orioles 6-4 Sunday afternoon.Macko entered the game in the top of the sixth and...

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is expected to argue a change in federal policies would ease separatist concerns in Alberta when he makes a speech in Calgary on Monday.In an excerpt of that speech shared with The Canadian Press, Poilievre says separatist voices do not have an issue with their fellow Canadians, &qu...

One of Canada's best-known bears was one of three recently trapped and collared as part of a program to better track grizzlies in Rocky Mountain national parks, but The Boss managed to rip it off in no time.Parks Canada says Bear 122, or affectionately known as The Boss by locals, was captured on May 13 by wildlife spe...

The Sylvan Lake Gulls managed to snap a three-game losing skid Sunday afternoon, but in the process ended the Lethbridge Bulls' four-game win streak.Scoring nine runs in the top of the 3rd, the Gulls would go on to beat the Toros 16-0, in game that would see the home side commit five errors.Sylvan Lake's three runs in ...

Alberta's Adam Macko has done it again.In just his 11th appearance in Major League Baseball, the 25-year-old Vauxhall Baseball Academy graduate earned his second career win on the mound as the Toronto Blue Jays rallied to beat the Baltimore Orioles 6-4 Sunday afternoon.Macko entered the game in the top of the sixth and...

Four runs in the second inning proved to be the difference as the Lethridge Bulls dropped the Sylan Lake Gulls 5-2 in Western Canadian Baseball League action Saturday evening.The Bulls' win came on just six hits, but included a homer from second baseman Kalem Haney, as part of the scoring in the second - for Haney, it ...

It appears producers in Southern Alberta were able to get most, if not all, of their seedings finished ahead of our recent five-day rainstorm.The first weekly crop report of June from Alberta Agriculture shows a 100 percent completion rate for durum, mustard, flax, potatoes, chickpeas, lentils, and corn, and only a fra...

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...

While southern Alberta currently goes through a major rain event, some good news coming in from the province's latest crop report for Region 1.A May 26th survey of producers in the Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Strathmore, and Foremost areas found that close to 95 percent of seeding was complete, a jump of about 15 percent...

MONTREAL - A 38-year-old man is facing six charges in the attempted arson of a Montreal-area synagogue last week. The charges include arson, possessing incendiary materials, using an explosive substance and possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose. ...

OTTAWA - Former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour has been installed as Canada's 31st Governor General, replacing Mary Simon. Today's ceremony included a 21-gun salute, a poetry reading and musical performances by two Canadian artists. Here's the lat...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Louise Arbour becomes Canada's new governor general Former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour will become Canada's 31st governor general today in a pomp-filled ce...

RICHMOND - Tom Tang, a 76-year-old former art teacher and street portraitist from China, now lives in a park in Richmond, B.C. He doesn't quite know how he ended up there. "Time all blurs together when you spend a long time wandering on the streets. I ...

OTTAWA - Extreme polarization and consensus are dangerous and a better Canada can only be built through the "peaceful management" of our differences, Gov. Gen. Louise Arbour said Monday, in her first speech as the King's representative in Canada. The f...

CALGARY - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is expected to call for a shift in federal policies as an antidote for separatist sentiment in Alberta. Poilievre is set to speak in Calgary later today, and an excerpt of his speech was shared with The Ca...

MADRID (AP) - Pope Leo XIV met Monday with six survivors of clergy sexual abuse in Madrid and vowed to consider their suggestions for how the Catholic Church can improve its response to the crisis, the Vatican said. The meeting, which fol...

MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Boris formed Monday and is expected to bring heavy rain, flooding and possible mudslides to parts of southern Mexico's Pacific coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Boris was located about 85 miles (1...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Israel and Iran appeared to back away from further strikes Monday, hours after they traded fire for the first time since the U.S. agreed to a ceasefire with Tehran two months ago. Both countries warned that they were ...