A barbecue fire at a north Lethbridge home last week is prompting Lethbridge Fire & Emergency Services to come out with some tips. At the top of that list: to regularly clean the grill and remove any excess grease or fat build-up that might being accumulating in the catch tray. LFES is also recommending you place b...

The Town of Coalhurst is looking closely at student and pedestrian safety after a close call with a child in the community recently.It happened near Coalhurst Elementary and led to a discussion at last Monday's Council meeting. Among the concerns being raised: vehicle speeds, driver behaviour, U-turn activity, and over...

Space is filling up fast for November's Entrepreneur Connections Summit in Lethbridge. The event, to take place November 5th at the Trade & Convention Centre, is targetting small and medium businesses in the region, which include vendors like those you would find at a farmers' market."Whether you want to stay ...

Electricity was restored Sunday to several areas in Lethbridge after about five hours. Power was cut off unexpectedly to the Fleetwood, Victoria Park, Upper Eastside, London Road, and Henderson Lake neighbourhoods at around 11 a.m. On its outage page, the City of Lethbridge deemed it as an electrical failure, but didn'...

Alberta's regulated iGaming system is now live, starting the race for private sports betting companies and online casinos to stake their shares in the provincial gambling market.It makes Alberta the second province to officially open the doors to private online gambling operators, behind Ontario.Nearly 50 companies pai...

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...

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 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 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 - Major projects and a coming meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney and the premiers will be the main focus of the Assembly of First Nations annual general assembly this week, National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak said Monday. The AFN gatheri...

HALIFAX - John Hamm, the small-town doctor who went on to become the 25th premier of Nova Scotia, is being remembered for his soft-spoken but direct approach to politics that helped reshape the province's economy. A family doctor for 30 years before e...

WINNIPEG - A former long-serving Manitoba member of Parliament faces multiple gun charges after police raided his home and seized 439 firearms - and a cannon. Inky Mark faces a dozen Criminal Code charges, including firearms trafficking, after the raid...

VANCOUVER - The family of Tatyanna Harrison and advocacy groups including the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs are calling for a comprehensive review of the investigation into her death four years ago, as they renew calls to reopen the case. It ...

OTTAWA - The City of Ottawa's emergency manager apologized Monday after an unannounced late-night fireworks show rocked parts of the city last week. Federal and municipal agencies say they are now trying to sort out who allowed the blasts to take place...

MIRABEL - Quebec's economy minister announced plans to establish a second aerospace engineering campus in the Montreal area as part of a series of initiatives to train more workers in the sector. Bernard Drainville revealed the plans north of Montreal ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Darline Graham Nordone, who was appointed to serve the remaining months of the Senate term that her late brother, Lindsey Graham, left behind when he died over the weekend, hasn't been in office before. But through...

Minnesota prosecutors announced Monday that they have obtained key evidence in their ongoing investigations into fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti during pitched protests against a federal immigration enforcement crackdown in the state earl...

BRUSSELS (AP) - The European Union coordinated efforts to raise 900 million euros ($1 billion) in aid for Gaza, working with 65 governments and organizations including the White House and the United Nations, the bloc's top diplomat said Monday. ...