Shifting winds from two wildfires in BC's Fraser Canyon has pushed smoke into the Lethbridge region.On Wednesday, several B.C. cities including Kamloops and Revelstoke were shrouded in smoke.The same smoke has now made its way into Calgary, and other Southern Alberta cities, including Lethbridge and Medicine Hat, and w...

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...

The Lethbridge Police Service continue to search for a missing 20-year-old woman last seen back in March of this year walking towards the Coulees. Araya Riemann is described as a white female, 5 feet 2 inches tall, with a thin build, brown hair and green eyes.Police say earlier tips of sightings of Riemann in Cranbrook...

The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team has concluded its findings into the Spring 2025 death of a man while in police custody. In its report, released Wednesday, it said the incident in question centred around the arrest of an unwanted guest from a home on Scenic Drive. Lethbridge Police were called just before mid...

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...

RCMP are expanding an Amber Alert and the search area for Lanakai Morrison, offering several updates late Thursday.The boy is the subject of an Amber Alert issued late Wednesday night out of Beaverlodge, which is a half hour west of Grande Prairie.The alert originally applied to a 200 km radius from Beaverlodge; howeve...

The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team has concluded its findings into the Spring 2025 death of a man while in police custody. In its report, released Wednesday, it said the incident in question centred around the arrest of an unwanted guest from a home on Scenic Drive. Lethbridge Police were called just before mid...

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...

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...

NIAGARA FALLS - More than 300 deer at Marineland have been the focus of a months-long investigation by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency amid allegations that an animal broker has been improperly removing hundreds of others from the park, including t...

OTTAWA - A Uyghur rights activist says Ottawa's reaction to a new Chinese law on ethnic unity is tepid and does not live up to Canada's promise to tackle transnational repression. Beijing has enacted a law giving a legal basis for the Chinese governmen...

The Supreme Court of Canada has reinstated the mandatory minimum sentence for offenders who obtain or solicit sexual services from a minor in exchange for money. In doing so, the country's highest court overturns a May 2024 decision by the Quebec Court...

OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 6.5 per cent in June. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, however, that the figures may fluctuate widely because t...

OTTAWA - Canada's national unemployment rate was 6.5 per cent in June. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets): _ Newfoundland and Labrador 8.2 per cent (9.6) _ Prince Edward Island 7.6 per cent (...

OTTAWA - A quick look at Canada's June employment figures (numbers from the previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 6.5 per cent (6.6) Employment rate: 60.8 per cent (60.7) Participation rate: 65.0 per cent (65.0) Number unemployed: 1,469,200 (...

LONDON (AP) - A 26-year-old man was arrested Friday on suspicion of murder in the killing of Ann Widdecombe, a former British member of Parliament and reality TV contestant, police said. Widdecombe, 78, was found dead Thursday with seriou...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump will let the bipartisan housing bill approved by Congress become law without his signature, saying Friday that he was refusing to put his name on it because of the little progress made in passing a strict voter ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Many Jewish adults feel unsafe in the United States, a new AP-NORC poll finds, with a majority saying they feel less safe than they did before Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel. The survey from The Associated Press-NO...