After close to a year of preparations, the Southern Alberta Summer Games in the County of Forty Mile is almost here. 21 different sports and cultural events will make up this year's games - everything from cornhole to photography to clout archery.The opening ceremonies are set for Wednesday afternoon (July 8) at 5:30 a...

Lethbridge Family Services is hoping a new project it's facilitating will help reach teens and young adults finding it difficult to fit in. Ricardo Campos Azueta says it's particularly hard for new Canadian youth trying to adjust into a new culture. "When they came to a new country, they experience, like, a shock,...

Lethbridge's annual Heritage Day celebrations, put on by the Southern Alberta Ethnic Association, is set to go on Monday, August 3rd. A number of different cultures will, again, be featured at this year's event as the group's executive director, Tim Wiebe, tells us."Nikka Yuko Japanese Gardens will be there. So, s...

The member of parliament for Lethbridge will remain on as federal Conservative shadow minister for Canadian Identity and Culture. Rachael Thomas is looking forward to continuing her role after leader Pierre Polievre made some changes to his inner circle in late June. However, she says focus, at least for the next few w...

CALGARY - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Ontario Premier Doug Ford have unveiled a route for a proposed west-east oil pipeline. The two premiers say it would stretch 3,300 kilometres from Hardisty, Alta., to refineries in Sarnia, Ont., without cros...

The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team has completed its investigation into the death of a Lethbridge woman, who died in September of 2023, while in police custody.As is standard practice, the report released on Friday didn't contain the person's name or identify of any of the four civilian witnesses or 10 officers...

Alberta police say one person is dead following a roadside interaction near the community of Irricana, northeast of Calgary. Airdrie RCMP say officers were responding to a 911 call on Highway 9, just outside the town, at 6:20 p.m.Upon arrival, officers say they located a male suspect, and after an altercation, at least...

Residents swatting away mosquitoes nonstop and asking themselves, "where do they keep coming from?" are not alone.According to researchers at the University of Alberta, the current heavy rain-extreme heat cycle the province is in has created the perfect environment for mosquitoes.Dr. Jumari Snyman, a research...

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...

Make it six wins-in-a-row for the Lethbidge Bulls after another narrow one-run decision, 6-5, over West Division-leading Okotoks Tuesday night at Spitz Stadium.Caleb Eager (2/3) and Lee Matsuzaki (2/4) led the way for the Bulls at the plate.Noah Simpson earned the win throwing 43 strikes on 67 pitches over five complet...

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...

Culvert replacement work this week will result in one-day road closures in Lethbridge County and, in each case, between the hours of 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. Tuesday, crews will shut down Range Road 24-2 between Township Road 11-4 and 12-0 . On Wednesday, it'll be Township Road 12-2 between Range roads 24-3 and 24-4.Thursday ...

MONTRÉAL - Quebec's police watchdog has set up a command post in Montreal's Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood to find witnesses to a shooting that killed an officer and bystander. Members of the independent watchdog, known as the Bureau des enquêtes indépe...

MONTREAL - The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says it has deployed a team northeast of Montreal to investigate after 45 railcars with a CN train derailed in a residential area on Sunday. Police in Repentigny, Que., say no injuries were reported ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal government is set to name Germany's ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems as the preferred bidder to build the navy's next fleet of submarines, according to multiple media reports. That means Canada will now enter i...

OTTAWA - Justice Alan Diner is the new Federal Court chief justice, replacing Paul Crampton who retired at the end of October. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Diner's appointment in a news release Monday. The new chief justice takes on a leaders...

CALGARY - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Ontario Premier Doug Ford have unveiled a route for a proposed west-east oil pipeline. The two premiers say it would stretch 3,300 kilometres from Hardisty, Alta., to refineries in Sarnia, Ont., without cros...

The latest from the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Canada. All times are Eastern: 12:15 p.m. Canada's World Cup run ended with a 3-0 loss to Morocco in Saturday's round-of-16 match in Houston, but there's still one more tournament game to be played on Canadian...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - French President Emmanuel Macron arrived Monday in Syria, making him the first major western leader to visit the war-torn country since the ouster of Bashar al-Assad in 2024. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ...

HAVANA, Cuba (AP) - An island-wide blackout hit Cuba on Monday as fuel reserves dwindle and its electric grid continues to crumble. The blackout in the country of 10 million people was reported by the state-run Electric Union, which said ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Monday demanded that the allies put forward "clear, concrete and credible plans" to reach the organization's spending targets at its annual summit in Ankara. Rutte made the remark...