New recycling guidelines take effect Thursday (Oct. 1) around the province as part of the Extended Producer Responsibility program or EPR. Several communities around our region, including those with curbside service, can now add more to the blue carts or bins. On the list, that wasn't before: styrofoam, stretchy plasti...

Although a contract between the City of Lethbridge and Emergency Health Services Alberta ended yesterday, the City says not to expect any changes when it comes to paramedic callouts. Hospital & Surgical Services minister Adriana LaGrange confirmed Tuesday that the findings of an independent third-party review on be...

October 1st is the International Day of Older Persons and Alberta's Assisted Living minister calls seniors the foundation of our province. In a statement, Nathan Neudorf added they helped build the Alberta we know and love today, and have shaped communities we call home.The Lethbridge East MLA continued by saying senio...

As part of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the Lethbridge Sport Council is presenting Buffalo Spirit Games Wednesday at the Nicholas Sheran School Grounds.According to the Council, it's a chance for the community to experience a day of sport, culture, and learning.The day will feature traditional and con...

Minister of Hospital and Surgical Health Services, Adriana LaGrange, who is also the MLA for Red Deer-North, will travel to Europe this week to learn more about innovative health care models and how they can improve access and outcomes for Albertans.LaGrange will be gone from Oct. 2-10 in Sweden and Denmark.In a releas...

Mounties have charged an Edmonton man with threatening to kill Prime Minister Mark Carney. RCMP say its federal policing division made the arrest following an investigation into posts on the social media platform X. It comes after police announced last month they had arrested a Calgary man over death threats against Ca...

Albertans filling their tanks may soon be saving cash as the province's gas tax holiday starts today. Premier Danielle Smith's government is pausing its tax of 13 cents per litre on gasoline and diesel until the end of the year to ease the pressure of high everyday costs. It comes as the oil-rich province's treasury re...

October 1st is the International Day of Older Persons and Alberta's Assisted Living minister calls seniors the foundation of our province. In a statement, Nathan Neudorf added they helped build the Alberta we know and love today, and have shaped communities we call home.The Lethbridge East MLA continued by saying senio...

Here are the Weekly Top-10 Rankings for all five levels of high school football in Alberta for the 2026 season.These rankings will come out every Sunday (except for Labour Day kickoff) from now up until November 9.At that time, those will be the last rankings, and teams will take this rank into provincials.The 12-a-sid...

The Coaldale Copperheads opened the 2026-27 HJHL campaign on a losing note, falling 3-1 to the Cochrane Generals Saturday night at the Coaldale Sportsplex.The game between the historically evenly-matched squads went scoreless until the 9:40 mark of the second period, when the Generals' Gairen Bona, on a pass from Evan ...

A much better effort by the Lethbridge Hurricanes Friday night, but they simply weren't able to stop Red Deer Rebels' captain Beckett Hamilton.The 18-year-old from Saskatoon scored three times in a Rebels 4-3 result over the Canes at VisitLethbridge.com Arena.Hamilton's first goal came just over three minutes into the ...

It's hoped a two-day conference planned for late November will help the Lethbridge & District Cultural Society to re-shape its direction and future."Really, the Ag Society, right now, is trying to engage the community as much as we can and improve public ag literacy. Get the non-agricultural public, potentiall...

Prairie Rose Public Schools is expanding its agriculture education programming through an apiary project that is giving students hands-on experience with bee health, pollination and agricultural research.On Thursday, Sept. 17, students and guests gathered at the Prairie Rose bee yard at Neubauer Farms to see agricultur...

After a very wet start to September, it looks like producers here in the South will be getting a bit of a break with harvest time coming up fast. The Weather Network's senior meteorologist Doug Gillham is predicting a warmer than normal and drier forecast, starting late this week. "Of course, normal is rapidly fal...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will look into whether an Ontario court had jurisdiction to impose a statutory freeze on cryptocurrency in an alleged fraud case. Three Nigerian citizens are accused of defrauding a person in Canada of about $65,000...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Thursday that the Pacific Link pipeline project is the first to be designated a project in the national interest under the Building Canada Act. The designation allows the federal government to streamline th...

OTTAWA - Health ministers from across the country say they're worried about "profound and negative" effects on patients and health-care jobs if federal funding agreements for mental health, addictions and home care are not renewed in this year's budget...

CALGARY - A new million-barrel-per-day oilsands pipeline to the West Coast is the first to be deemed a project of national interest - a key step if the proposal is to advance. Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced the ...

OTTAWA - Indigenous communities along the route for the newly announced West Coast oil pipeline were given just two months for consultations on whether the pipeline should be designated a project of national interest - and that was still more than the ...

TORONTO - An Ontario mother's acquittal in the death of her infant son is the latest display of medical evidence of shaken baby syndrome discredited in the courtroom. Jennifer Gaskin had been convicted of manslaughter in the death of her 2 1/2-month-ol...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Hurricane Rachel has been upgraded to a Category 3 storm off Mexico's Pacific coast, according to the National Hurricane Center, as northern Mexico and parts of the U.S. Southwest were reeling from flooding and damage from the remnan...

BOSTON (AP) - The judge in the Lindsay Clancy murder case on Thursday refused to declare her not guilty, turning down a defense motion that had argued there wasn't enough evidence to prove she was responsible for killing her three children. ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been ordered not to engage in high-speed car chases and to make vehicle stops only if they have completed specific training, under new internal guidance issued after several drivers were shot in en...