A member of Lethbridge's judo community is off to the Commonwealth Summer Games in Scotland.Evelyn Beaton is one of five women who will represent Canada at the international competition."It's based on points, so it's not a specific event that you place at. It's kind of how you do over the past two years or the las...

With Saturday being exactly six months away from Christmas Day, the folks behind Lethbridge's annual Christmas Hope campaign thought it might be a good idea to get out into the community.Danielle McIntyre with the Interfaith Food Bank says they'll be setting up tables at the Farmers Market at the Trade & Convention...

It looks like it could be another bad day for air quality Friday in the Lethbridge region with Environment & Climate Change Canada forecasting a level of 8 or high, on a scale which tops out at 10-plus.Conditions are expected to improve for Saturday, though, only slightly with a moderate risk.Under the 'high' ratin...

Alberta Health Services has issued a Water Quality Advisory for Golden Sheaf Park in the County of Forty Mile.It made the move after it found elevated levels of bacteria in Rattlesnake Lake along the park's beach.At its current levels, AHS believes it poses a risk of gastrointestinal illness if the water is ingested.It...

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...

An online poll suggests support for a 13-billion-dollar Meta artificial intelligence data centre in Alberta differs significantly depending on gender and political tilt. The proposed project, set for Sturgeon County near Edmonton, would be the tech giant's first A-I data centre in Canada and its largest outside the U-S...

Parks Canada says charges have been laid against two hikers who, along with their off-leash dog, encountered a grizzly bear in Banff National Park. Video of the encounter on Taylor Lake trail was posted to Instagram, and Parks Canada wardens were able to identify the people involved. The regulatory charges under the Ca...

The Armed Forces says three members were injured last week after falling into a crevasse during a training exercise in Jasper National Park. Maj. Bradley Roy says the three-person rope team was performing a rescue exercise when they dropped about 20 metres into the crevasse on the Athabasca Glacier. Roy says the three ...

Barclay Parneta has moved from his role as interim general manager to GM of the Lethbridge Hurricanes, agreeing to a more permanent role.While he says he didn't take the job because things needed to be changed, he says the philosophy of building teams has changed."I think the fans, the staff will see really see an...

The South Chief Rockies from Magrath are the U-15 A Tier 1 provincial champions, after beating Thorsby 12-4 in the final Sunday afternoon. Head coach Jordan Brame said his team faced some stiff competition in the five-team tournament, but they pushed hard to take the title."The championship game we knew Thorsby ha...

The Lethbridge Bulls started a six-game road trip through Saskatchewan on a sour note Sunday night, shut out 1-0 by the Weyburn Beavers - the lone run driven in on a single by the Beavers' Robert Gurney in the bottom of the eight inning.Bulls' pitcher Adryen Tietz pitched five-and-two-thirds innings of scoreless ball, ...

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...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she does not plan to retaliate against U.S. President Donald Trump's threat of a 50 per cent tariff on Canadian goods with an alcohol ban. She told her provincewide call-in radio show Saturday she is leavi...

MONS - A Canadian intern at NATO has been arrested on suspicions of espionage. Belgium's federal prosecutor says in a statement the female intern of Chinese origin is suspected of spying on behalf of a third country. She is also suspected of being a ...

Vancouver stunt woman Devyn Dalton says she never expected her biceps to go viral. But then Matt Damon credited his four-foot-six-inch stunt double in "The Odyssey" for having "the greatest arms" he's ever seen. He didn't identify her in the interview ...

OTTAWA - The federal government says it received more than 21,000 emails on proposed changes to how major projects are reviewed and will spend the coming weeks combing over those submissions. A window for public feedback on the proposed changes closed ...

OTTAWA - Advocates for people with episodic disabilities say they don't understand why the federal government has two different definitions of disability in law - and uses the narrower version to decide who gets benefits. Canada's disability benefit p...

CLINTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - An official with the village of Clinton, B.C., says the community is largely still standing after an overnight battle against a raging wildfire. Brian Doddridge, with the village's emergency operations centre, says h...

LIMA, Peru (AP) - Two buses crashed into each other Saturday in southern Peru killing at least five people and injuring another 16, authorities said. The head-on collision took place along the southern Panamerican Highway in the town of T...

The WNBA has never been bigger. More people are watching. More are investing. Salaries for many players are higher than ever. But mounting turmoil and discord have been a part of this transformative period that has featured a landmark collective bargai...

BANGOR, Maine (AP) - Former state lawmaker and logger Troy Jackson secured the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Maine on Saturday and will face longtime GOP Sen. Susan Collins in November in a race that could decide which party controls the Sen...