The emergency department at the Fort Macleod Health Centre will be closed to the public until 8 p.m. this evening.In a statement, Alberta Health Services said the closure is due to an unexpected clinical personnel shortage and inability to secure coverage.It will reopen for 24-hour service at 8 p.m.During the temporary...

Raised as a child in Taber, and close to seven feet tall, Ross Bekkering has been almost all over the world doing what he enjoys - playing basketball.Earlier this month, the 38-year-old former Olympian was inducted into the Lethbridge Sports Hall of Fame and he credits his success to the great support he had growing up...

Environment & Climate Change Canada has issued a Special Weather Statement for sections of eastern Alberta and western Saskatchewan warning of favourable conditions for the development of funnel clouds Wednesday afternoon.According to the ECCC statement, "these types of funnel clouds are generated by weak rota...

Our Collective Journey's Rise Up Hot Air Balloon Festival is preparing for its biggest year yet as dozens of pilots and crews descend on Medicine Hat ahead of the event.The festival is entering its fifth year, with pilots coming from across Canada and the United States.Festival organizer Willie Taillon says 34 balloons...

Two of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's cabinet ministers are stepping down.Finance Minister Nate Horner and Hospitals Minister Matt Jones are set to leave their posts and don't plan to run again in the October 2027 general election.Both made the announcements on social media, saying it's best to step down now and give...

Alberta RCMP report they removed 122 drivers from roadways and issued 1,204 tickets during the long weekend.Police say from May 15-18, Mounties conducted enhanced traffic enforcement to target impaired drivers and unsafe driving practices."The Alberta RCMP will continue to have an enhanced presence on provincial r...

Someone in Alberta is $12.5 million richer after purchasing a winning Lotto Max ticket. Western Canada Lottery Corporation says the ticket was bought within the province, but somewhere outside of Edmonton and Calgary. The Lotto Max jackpot is $25 million, but there was another winning ticket in Quebec, so the prize wil...

We now know how the newly redesigned 'Welcome to Alberta' signs will look, and what they'll say.The Government of Alberta unveiled the design Wednesday, with the signs also bearing the message 'Strong and Free.'It was announced in April that the signs would actually be shaped like the province, but that isn't coming to...

It was a good turnout Friday night for the Lethbridge Sports Hall of Fame's induction ceremony at the Trade & Convention Centre.Seven new entries were added into the hall including former Lethbridge Hurricane and Chicago Blackhawk Kris Versteeg who remembers playing hockey at a young age."I used to play for my...

Seven new entries will formally be added to the Lethbridge Sports Hall of Fame at an induction ceremony slated for tomorrow night (FRI) at the Trade & Convention Centre.Included: Ross Bekkering in Basketball, Wacey Rabbit and Kris Versteeg for Hockey, the 2016-17 Kodiak Women's Basketball National Championship squa...

The Canadian Grand Slam of Baseball Showcase and Festival is coming to Lethbridge.The ten-day spotlight, a joint venture between the Bulls baseball club, the City, Lethbridge Tourism, and the Sport Council, takes place from May 21-30, and Bulls' president and CEO Kevin Kvame couldn't be happier."This isn't about o...

The reeve with the MD of Willow Creek is optimistic that 2026 will be a good year for producers in her neck-of-the-woods.Maryanne Sandberg believes the current Spring conditions are aligning nicely for a successful Summer."Given that our dams are full. We still have a great snowpack up there," Sandberg reiter...

The Lethbridge Raging Grannies are holding a rally on April 10 to protest coal mining in the Eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains.Raging Grannies administrator Barb Phillips says the impact mining can have on the environment is an important issue to the rallygoers."Whatever happens in those mountains affects us, ...

Local nonprofit Farming Smarter is seeking the public's help as they launch their 2026 season. The organization held a media event Tuesday, March 31, to showcase their past efforts while looking at upcoming and ongoing projects. "There's a lot of change here," says executive director Ken Coles. "There's ...

EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA - Alberta's journey toward holding a fall referendum vote on separation took a bizarre turn Wednesday straight into a roadblock. It occurred when the governing United Conservative members of a bipartisan legislature committee ...

OTTAWA - New Democrats and several unions are warning that federal job cuts and research facility closures will put food safety and security at risk. The federal government's website says it's planning to cut more than 650 jobs at Agriculture and Agri-...

WASHINGTON - Two Canadian steel companies have agreed to pay $19 million to resolve allegations they knowingly failed to pay proper duties on flat-rolled steel manufactured in Europe and Asia, the U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday. From May 2019 t...

OTTAWA - The European Parliament formally welcomed Canada into the defence borrowing and procurement agreement known as SAFE on Wednesday - making it the only non-European country to join. The European Parliament passed a final vote Wednesday to greenl...

VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Mark Carney and British Columbia Premier David Eby have agreed to enter negotiations on B.C.'s economic priorities and Ottawa's role in national development projects. Carney met with Eby in a closed-door meeting in Vancouver ...

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Michael Chong said his meeting with Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te on Wednesday was meant to assert Canadian sovereignty in the face of Beijing's warnings to Canadian lawmakers that such visits are inappropriate. "I thought it...

MOUNTAINAIR, N.M. (AP) - Three people are dead and more than a dozen first responders were quarantined and being treated Wednesday for exposure to an unidentified substance after being called to a suspected drug overdose at a rural New Mexico home, aut...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - US Rep. Barry Moore and former Navy SEAL Jared Hudson advanced to a runoff on Wednesday for the Republican nomination for the open U.S. Senate seat in Alabama. Moore is a three-term congressman endorsed by Presiden...

FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) - An Arizona prisoner convicted of killing another man by throwing gasoline at him and lighting a match was put to death Wednesday, the first of three executions planned this week around the U.S. Leroy Dean McGill, 63...