The Lethbridge Bulls have climbed back into a first-place tie with the Okotoks Dawgs after a 7-2 victory over Fort McMurray in WCBL play Thursday night. For the second time in two nights, the Toros scored three runs in the third inning, before adding another three in the ninth to put a cap on the win. The Bulls and Daw...

Advance pricing to this year's Whoop-Up Days and Lethbridge & District Pro Rodeo is underway, and you can do it either in person or online. Whoop-Up Days tickets and West Coast Amusements ride wristbands can be bought at all Lethbridge and area Gas King locations. General admission tickets, meanwhile, can be purcha...

Close to 100 duffers turned out yesterday for the Kiwanis Club of Taber's Charity Golf Tournament for the Taber and District Health Foundation. The foundation's fundraising director, Aline Holmen, says the over-$54,000 raised this year is aleady earmarked for one particular project."So, currently, we use a portabl...

The Lethbridge office of the Building Industry and Land Development Association, or BILD, will have a new person at the helm come next month. Kristen DeMone, who most recently worked at the University of Lethbridge, has been hired as Chief Executive Officer. In her new role, the association says DeMone will provide str...

ATB Financial says that "Alberta's economy continues to weather the geopolitical storm better than most." ATB is predicting that Alberta will lead the country in economic growth this year. It says in a news release that "real GDP will grow by 2.6 per cent in 2026." The prediction for economic growt...

Alberta's government has filed its appeal of a judge's decision to throw out a petition looking to force a vote on the province quitting Canada. Premier Danielle Smith criticized the ruling last month, calling it ``anti-democratic,'' and promised to appeal. Court of King's Bench Justice Shaina Leonard found the referen...

The Government of Alberta says they received Alberta musician Corb Lund's "Water Not Coal" citizen initiative petition and signature sheets.His petition, which needed to reach the threshold of 178,000 signatures, opposes coal mining in Alberta's eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.As a result, Elections Alb...

The RCMP's Federal Policing Northwest Region are asking parents to be more vigilant with their children's online behaviour, following a rise in violent online groups across the country.The Northwest Region's (NWR) Superintendent, Officer Matt Johnson, says "gone are the days when risk existed only in one physical ...

The Lethbridge Bulls have climbed back into a first-place tie with the Okotoks Dawgs after a 7-2 victory over Fort McMurray in WCBL play Thursday night. For the second time in two nights, the Toros scored three runs in the third inning, before adding another three in the ninth to put a cap on the win. The Bulls and Daw...

Lethbridge Bulls first baseman Carter Claerhout has been named the WCBL's first 2026 Alberta Player of the Week. In his first eight games, the Red Deer native had 15 hits, including three doubles, scored seven runs, and had nine RBI's for a batting average of .441 and beat out teammates Connor Crowson and Kalem Henry, ...

The Lethbridge Bulls put themselves back on the winning track Wednesday night with a convincing 11-2 decision over the Fort McMurray Giants. Kalem Haney and Bernie Socarras went 2-for-5 at the plate, and both with a walk; Haney, though, added a home run to one of his 'at bats.'The Bulls had to rally to win this one - ...

Culvert replacement work this week will result in one-day road closures in Lethbridge County and, in each case, between the hours of 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. Tuesday, crews will shut down Range Road 24-2 between Township Road 11-4 and 12-0 . On Wednesday, it'll be Township Road 12-2 between Range roads 24-3 and 24-4.Thursday ...

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...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver's big moment on the World Cup stage is still a day away but energy is building as fans get ready to take in Canada's debut match against Bosnia-Herzegovina in Toronto. The PNE Amphitheatre that's the main attraction at Vancouver's...

OTTAWA - The United States Army National Guard has shelved an annual Canada-U.S. summit of military officers. Canada's Department of National Defence confirms the meeting of the Army Reserve General Officers Advisory Board was put on ice and says the n...

FREDERICTON - A New Brunswick woman is suing artificial intelligence firm OpenAI after the death of her daughter. Kristie Carrier alleges the company's chatbot is responsible for the death of Alice by suicide last year, at the age of 24. The lawsuit f...

OTTAWA - The head of the Canadian Steel Producers Association says Ottawa's latest extension of a program that offsets the cost of tariffs in some sectors fails to encourage domestic firms to diversify away from the United States. The horizontal tariff...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand has announced $100 million in federal funding to support Palestinians living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. She unveiled the funding in Paris, where western leaders are meeting to discuss mounting cha...

OTTAWA - The federal government tabled a bill Friday to change the way Canada bars imports of products made with forced labour following an American tariff threat. Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand was in Paris with Prime Minister Mark Carney as the...

SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Spain (AP) - Pope Leo XIV warned people smugglers on Friday that they will face God's wrath for exploiting the desperation of migrants, demanding they stop and repent during his final day in this epicenter of the African migrati...

MIDLAND, Texas (AP) - A shooter who opened fire in the West Texas city of Midland died Friday after a standoff with police following an attack that left one person dead and at least nine others injured, city officials said. Midland polic...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A federal judge agreed on Friday to extend a court-ordered block on the Trump administration's creation and operation of a $1.8 billion settlement fund for compensating people who claim to be victims of a weaponized government. ...