Twenty students with the Southern Alberta Medical Program have completed their first week of training as part of a new full-time course being offered on the University of Lethbridge campus.While, historically, becoming a doctor was something done right out of high school or university, the program's associate dean, Dr....

A well-known Lethbridge photographer, now filmmaker, is putting together a four-part documentary on the city featuring not only its landscape, but its character.Unvarnished: Lethbridge, says Robert Messenger, is designed to show the city's true identity and from a ground-level perspective, one he hopes he'll be able to...

The Lethbridge Bulls returned home to Spitz Stadium Friday night following a four-game road trip, but it certainly wasn't the homecoming they had hoped for, edged out 3-2 by the Moose Jaw Miller Express in WCBL action.2nd baseman Kalem Haney, who went 1-for-3 at the plate, scored both of the Bulls' runs, the second sco...

A 68-year-old woman is in a Calgary hospital, critically injured, after being struck by a vehicle Thursday evening in the Lakeview neighbourhood of Lethbridge.An investigation by the Lethbridge Police Service found the unidentified woman was crossing the street, near the area of Lakemount Boulevard South and Forestry A...

RCMP in Alberta and British Columbia have cancelled Amber Alerts in those provinces for a six-year-old boy, but the child remains missing.Alberta RCMP said Friday that they were cancelling their alert but continuing to investigate the abduction of Lanakai Morrison.The boy was taken Tuesday from the hamlet of Valhalla C...

Beaverlodge RCMP is cancelling the Amber Alert for Lanakai Morrison, but all four individuals; Lanakai, Karl Morrison, Krista Morrison and Daniel Ludwig are still missing.According to Mounties, "This alert was cancelled as there is no reasonable expectation the public, in Alberta, will be able to action the instru...

CHAUVIN - Two tornadoes touched down in Alberta on Wednesday, toppling trees, tearing up trailers in a campground and sending three people to hospital.Dillberry Lake Provincial Park in central Alberta, near the Saskatchewan boundary, was evacuated and campers were told to head to the nearby village of Chauvin, Alta.Nei...

Elections Alberta announced they recently identified a website that appears to be attempting to represent itself as Elections Alberta.The government says the spoofed URL of electionsab.ca was designed to mislead by mimicking the legitimate website URL of elections.ab.ca, and exploit concerns about the recent unauthoriz...

The Lethbridge Bulls returned home to Spitz Stadium Friday night following a four-game road trip, but it certainly wasn't the homecoming they had hoped for, edged out 3-2 by the Moose Jaw Miller Express in WCBL action.2nd baseman Kalem Haney, who went 1-for-3 at the plate, scored both of the Bulls' runs, the second sco...

The Lethbridge Trade & Convention Centre will be the place to be this weekend if you love to watch traditional tae-kwon-do.Some 520 competitors of all ages are coming in from around the world to compete including athletes from such countries as the U.S., Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain, and India, to name a few...

The Lethbridge Bulls are the hottest team in the Western Canadian Baseball League, earning their 7th and 8th wins in a row in a doubleheader over Fort McMurray on Canada Day at Spitz Stadium. The Bulls took the first game 14-9, scoring four runs in both the second and eighth innings, before beating the Giants 13-3 in t...

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...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is offering his condolences to the family of U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, saying he "stood resolutely in defence of democracy and freedom." Graham died this weekend after a "brief and sudden illness," according to his ...

TORONTO - A Toronto street that should have been packed with vendors and dancing people was all but deserted on Sunday after a shooting the night before at the Salsa on St. Clair festival left two people dead and sent thousands running for cover. The s...

CALGARY - The Calgary Stampede is more than a rodeo. It's a runway for western fashion that politicians strut down each year. Politicians of all stripes attend the annual exhibition and rodeo, considered a celebration of everything western. The cowboy ...

CALGARY - Prime Minister Mark Carney has waited a year for a Stampede pancake breakfast do-over, and managed to perfect the art of flapjack flipping on Sunday. Carney attended one of the final Stampede breakfasts of the year at the Sunnyside Hillhurst ...

CIGAR LAKE, SASK. - Taryn Roske lost her job twice when the nuclear industry had ground to a halt. The Cameco employee and hundreds of others were laid off from the company's Rabbit Lake mine in northern Saskatchewan after it shut down in 2016. "I had ...

CIGAR LAKE, SASK. - After about a decade of stagnation, the nuclear industry is now seeing what some are calling a renaissance. Here's a look at the sector in Canada and its future plans. Canada is the world's second-largest uranium producer In 2024, ...

BANGKOK (AP) - A huge fire engulfed a pub in Bangkok early on Monday morning, killing at least 27 people before firefighters brought the blaze under control, officials said. Footage shared online by first responders shows a huge blaze rag...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of President Donald Trump's closest allies in Congress who traveled the globe to advocate for a more aggressive U.S. foreign policy, has died after a "brief and sudden illness," his office said. He was 71. ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, who as ruler of Qatar transformed the tiny Persian Gulf nation into a global player in diplomacy, media and investment, and then shattered tradition by voluntarily turning over power...