Showers and cooler temperatures in some areas of southern Alberta has translated into a slight easing of the fire danger this weekend.While the rating for the extreme southeast corner remains at high to very high, it's dropped more in the southwest, where it now ranges from low to moderate.Even with a changing pattern ...

With this Monday being Labour Day, a number of City of Lethbridge services will be either closed or curtailed, beginning with City Hall.Regular hours, the City said in a release Friday, will resume on Tuesday, September 8, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.The 311 contact centre will be also closed, however, Breezy, the City's C...

Police in Lethbridge have charged a 30-year-old man with multiple sexual offences involving two young girls. LPS says they received a call on July 18th of this year of a 12-year-old child who told a friend that she'd been sexually assaulted. The three incidents, it's alleged, took place between June 2024 and May 2026. ...

The population of the Bridge City is expected to grow in the coming days as a large number of students with the University of Lethbridge return to class. While many are from our region, a big portion are from outside the area, with some about to live on campus, others around the city. The first move-in times will take ...

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 province has launched an online portal on tariffs.The new website includes information on U.S. and Canadian tariffs, plus has a tab where businesses can tell the government how the tariffs are impacting their operations. The government says this will provide information on things like cost changes, supply chains, e...

Stigma-Free Mental Health Society is asking students to be mindful of their mental health as classes return.The organization recently launched its Young Minds Matter 2026: Rural Classroom Conversations campaign, which hopes to impact 10,000 students by year's end.Officials say they've already reached close to 6,500 and...

Alberta Courts says the province's chief justice has died.Ritu Khullar -- who was also chief justice of the Courts of Appeal of Alberta, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories -- died Thursday at the age of 62.Alberta Courts says Khullar was deeply dedicated to public service and improving the administration of justice ...

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...

The Lethbridge Hurricanes Prospects training camp gets underway Thursday at the VisitLethbridge.com Arena.35 players - 19 forwards, 11 defencemen, and five goalies will be split up into two squads to be evaluated over the course of two days.Main camp will began on Saturday with 33 players including goaltender Leif Oate...

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...

MONTREAL - Quebec's courts have issued new guidelines restricting judges' use of generative artificial intelligence, stressing that judging must remain a fundamentally human responsibility. The guidelines, jointly adopted by the Quebec Court of Appeal,...

SQUAMISH - Athletics Canada says one of its members went missing while attempting to break a mountain-running record in the Alps along the Switzerland-Italy border. The national sport governing body says in a statement Kalie McCrystal was last seen on ...

TORONTO - Jets roared over downtown Toronto on Saturday as the Canadian International Air Show featured one of the final flights of the Snowbirds over Ontario's capital until at least the 2030s. Crowds whistled and waved their hats as the Snowbirds a...

OTTAWA - Newly elected Liberal MP Daniel Gobeil says his experience as a dairy farmer and agricultural leader will help him be a voice in Ottawa for a Quebec region on the front lines of the Canada-U.S. trade war. The former president of Quebec's dairy...

REGINA - It's a two-fisted, square-shaped, greasy-cheesy piece of goodness that has become an official symbol of Saskatchewan's capital city. It's Regina-style pizza. It's Greek, it's good and, as a bonus, it gets under the crust of the CFL team that ...

OTTAWA - In September 2025, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada was officially recognizing the State of Palestine. He told reporters at the time that recognition was "predicated on the Palestinian Authority's commitment to much-needed reform." He sa...

MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP) - An eastern German region voted Sunday in an election that could bring to power the first far-right state government in the nation's post-World War II history. The vote for the state legislature in Saxony-Anhalt, ...

CAIRO (AP) - The U.S. military on Saturday said it struck three Iranian oil tankers after Navy warships were targeted with missiles, warning that it would "if necessary, destroy Iran's limited and exposed oil fleet." The strikes - a day a...

The leaders of Russia and Ukraine on Saturday agreed to pause strikes on each other's capitals while U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner hold talks to try to revive a stalled push to end Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. "(...