Environment & Climate Change Canada has issued a Yellow Alert for Rainfall for Greater Lethbridge and a large section of southern Alberta."Heavy rainfall will continue, with total amounts of 40 to 70 mm expected," said an updated weather statement late Monday morning. Rainfall will end on Tuesday."Th...

The Medicine Hat Tigers took down the Lethbridge Hurricanes 7-3 Saturday night to improve to 2-0 in the preseason."It was all about evalutaion tonight, you gotta try to find out who you've got," said Tigers Head Coach and General Manager Willie Desjardins."Chorley I thought had a good game, I thought Hyn...

Update:Global BC is reporting the plane left Calgary's Springbank Airport bound for Campbell River on Vancouver Island.Original story:Mounties in Alberta say two people died in a plane crash near a mountain in Kananaskis Country.RCMP say they got a call for the crash near Mount McDougall, located southwest of Calgary, ...

Last week's seasonally-adjusted Labour Force Survey not only showed declines and increases in the number of jobs, and in which sector they were, but also indicated Alberta was leading the country, among provinces, in population growth.According to Stats-Can figures, Alberta had a 2.2 % rise in new 'transplants' from Au...

Calling it the economic engine of Canada, the province's Jobs minister has issued his annual Labour Day statement.Joseph Schow said his government is proud to recognize Alberta's workers and the contributions they make to the province."Alberta is the economic engine of Canada and Alberta's workers are the driving ...

Update:Global BC is reporting the plane left Calgary's Springbank Airport bound for Campbell River on Vancouver Island.Original story:Mounties in Alberta say two people died in a plane crash near a mountain in Kananaskis Country.RCMP say they got a call for the crash near Mount McDougall, located southwest of Calgary, ...

Last week's seasonally-adjusted Labour Force Survey not only showed declines and increases in the number of jobs, and in which sector they were, but also indicated Alberta was leading the country, among provinces, in population growth.According to Stats-Can figures, Alberta had a 2.2 % rise in new 'transplants' from Au...

A coalition close to 300 labour and community groups are calling on the federal and Alberta governments to halt the removal of 10 international students it says were singled out for enforcement at a protest.The Migrant Rights Network group makes the demand in a public letter sent this week on behalf of transnational gr...

The Medicine Hat Tigers took down the Lethbridge Hurricanes 7-3 Saturday night to improve to 2-0 in the preseason."It was all about evalutaion tonight, you gotta try to find out who you've got," said Tigers Head Coach and General Manager Willie Desjardins."Chorley I thought had a good game, I thought Hyn...

The Western Hockey League is changing its livestream provider of video hockey broadcasts on an 'interim basis' to YouTube."The decision to move the livestreaming of WHL games follows uncertainty regarding the future of Victory+, the WHL's exclusive livestreaming partner since March 2025," stated a league rele...

Liam Ruck scored with three goals, including an empty netter in the dying seconds, as the Medicine Hat Tigers upended the Lethbridge Hurricanes 5-3 in pre-season play Tuesday night at VisitLethbridge.com Arena. Dawson Spence, Cohen Pentney, and Oliver Sichtar scored for the Canes in first game action for both teams. Th...

Scientists with Lethbridge Polytechnic's Mueller Irrigation Research Group have created a new tool that measures evaporation and transpiration.The easy-to-use, web-based program will help producers growing crops and hay know exactly how much water is needed in their fields.Dr. Michael Kehoe, with the research group, co...

The Alberta government says it's restoring private property rights by removing Water Act approval requirements.Right now, producers say they're facing unnecessary barriers when it comes to how they manage water on their own cropland.That can include everything from pooling water to having a seasonal wetland on their pr...

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...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Canada's retaliatory tariffs on American goods are now in effect The trade war between Canada and the United States took on a new face today as Ottawa introduces r...

TORONTO - Last May, six-year-old Kofi Berkley started getting itchy and developing bumps on his skin while he was playing with his friends at recess. The recess supervisor brought the Grade 1 student, who didn't have any known allergies, to his Edmonto...

A Canadian tourist is reported to be in good health after his yacht was found by Australian rescuers partially submerged in a remote part of the Indian Ocean. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority, or AMSA, says the man was reported to be travelling...

OTTAWA - Ottawa's retaliatory tariffs on American goods took effect just after midnight EDT on Tuesday, responding to the 50 per cent tariffs Washington hit Canada with last month. On Aug. 22, U.S. President Donald Trump launched tariffs on nearly $28 ...

A British Columbia legislature member who went to law school with missing mountaineer Kalie McCrystal says the woman's family and friends are "sitting by the phone" as they await updates on the search in Italy. Penticton-Summerland MLA Amelia Boultbee...

OTTAWA - Canadian aerospace giant Bombardier defended itself Monday and laid out its extensive footprint across the United States after President Donald Trump made the company the latest target of his anti-Canada campaign. Trump's rhetoric escalated in...

CAIRO (AP) - More than 70 people were wounded in a wave of Houthi attacks Tuesday on Saudi Arabia, authorities said, a major escalation in the renewed conflict between an important U.S. ally and the Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen. The att...

An Illinois woman charged with killing her 2-year-old son had been closely following the murder trial of Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy and was texting friends about the case just hours before her son was found dead, prosecutors said. ...

CAIRO (AP) - Houthi rebels in Yemen accused Saudi Arabia of striking a prison on Monday in the country's north, killing seven, including a child, as tensions escalate between the Iran-backed group and Saudi-backed Yemeni forces. The strik...