The City of Lethbridge is preparing for the closure of the province's temporary supervised drug consumption site, with funding being redirected to recovery-focused services for residents struggling with addiction. The transition is part of a province-wide shift by the Government of Alberta to move away from consumption...

The Lethbridge Food Bank is being recognized for its commitment to delivering safe, reliable, and dignified food access.The food bank has officially been accredited with the Standards of Excellence designation from Food Banks Canada for demonstrating the highest levels of accountability, food safety, governance, and co...

Lethbridge city council voted Tuesday to have the Mayor's Office again declare April 7 as Green Shirt Day.On April 6, 2018, Canadians were heartbroken to hear the news of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash.A day later, on April 7, Lethbridge's Logan Boulet succumbed to injuries sustained in the crash. After being inspired ...

The Coaldale Chamber of Commerce has announced a new location for this year's Job Fair 2026.The Shift Community Recreation Centre (2600-16 Avenue), will be the site of this year's event taking place Thursday, April 16, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Officials say this year's move marks a significant enhancement to the ev...

Alberta will be in control of regulating its methane emissions under an agreement-in-principle with Ottawa. The two governments inked a sweeping accord late last year touching on several energy policy matters. The memorandum of understanding included a plan to reach a methane equivalency agreement on or before April 1 ...

An Alberta legislature committee has reached into the auditor general's office to pick a new person to lead the watchdog agency. The committee has voted to recommend that Premier Danielle Smith's cabinet appoint Phillip Peters as the province's auditor general. Peters is currently the general counsel and ethics officer...

RCMP in Alberta are warning people to be careful if they get a call out of the blue asking them if they want to upgrade their phone. Police say fraudsters are cold calling people asking if they want an upgrade. They say it all sounds very legitimate and the fraudsters will try to pry personal information out of the tar...

RCMP have made an arrest in a highway shooting south of Edmonton earlier this month that left one man dead. They say three friends were headed to the mountains on the Queen Elizabeth 2 Highway on March 14, when a pickup truck pulled up beside their Honda Civic south of Leduc. Two survivors of the shooting have said a p...

The Lethbridge Val Matteotti Golden Hawks have won the gold medal at the U15 AAA Provincial Championship.The Hawks beat the Red Deer Rebels 5-4 in overtime Sunday.Lethbridge had ended the season sixth in the South Division standings with 41 points, 20 wins and 13 losses, far below the Rebels who had ended first in the ...

The town of Coaldale will welcome teams and fans from across Alberta as the Coaldale Cobras host the 2026 Hockey Alberta U18C Provincial Championships, taking place March 26 to 29, 2026, at the Coaldale Sportsplex. Officials note, it's the first time since 2013 that Coaldale will host a Hockey Alberta Provincial Champi...

Coaldale is set to host the SSA 3A Basketball Provincials starting Thursday, March 19 at Coaldale Prairie Winds Secondary School.The tournament will bring together high school teams from across the province, with games taking place at multiple venues, including Coaldale Prairie Winds Secondary School, R.I. Baker Middle...

Farmers and producers in and around Lethbridge County are being invited to two free agriculture workshops this spring, hosted through the county's Agriculture Extension Program. The Growing Opportunities Workshop runs on Wednesday, March 25, 2026, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Lethbridge Trade and Convention Centre. Let...

Canada's Premier Food Corridor (CPFC) is hosting a three-day delegation from Invest Quebec, bringing together 10 companies specializing in processing automation and digitization.The delegation aims to explore opportunities with Southern Alberta agri-food processors.According to CPFC, the event is part of its effort to ...

The provincial government says it is putting $250,000 over two years into an idea meant to get veterinary students to stay in rural Alberta.This money is for the Veterinary Student Recruitment and Retention Pilot Grant Program. It is intended to get rural clinics to hire summer students and to get those students to pra...

OTTAWA - A House of Commons committee is calling on the government to make changes to the Elections Act that would make it harder for protest groups to sign up dozens of candidates in a single riding. The Longest Ballot Committee targeted ridings in a ...

MONTREAL - A Quebec Superior Court has ruled that it was inappropriate for the federal government to try to block publication of a court ruling in a case that has been shrouded in secrecy. The redacted ruling involved a former police informant whose id...

VICTORIA - B.C.'s police complaint commissioner says his office has began a "systemic investigation" into how municipal police departments handle cases of sexual misconduct involving officers. Prabhu Rajan says sexual misconduct in police workplaces u...

MONTREAL - As experts assess the aftermath of the Air Canada Express plane crash at LaGuardia Airport, some have expressed surprise it wasn't worse - despite the tragedy of a disaster that left two pilots dead. Commercial aircraft are constructed for f...

VICTORIA - The MP representing Tumbler Ridge, B.C., has described how a 12-year-old girl heroically tried to save two classmates shot in the mass killing in the community last month. Bob Zimmer told Tuesday's National Prayer Breakfast in Ottawa that th...

OTTAWA - Nearly half of those who voted for the federal NDP at least once over the past four elections don't recognize the names of the current leadership candidates, a new poll suggests. The Angus Reid Institute surveyed 1,100 Canadians who voted for ...

NEW YORK (AP) - The NBA has finally decided to consider expanding past its current 30-team footprint, with the league's owners voting Wednesday to start exploring the process of adding franchises in Las Vegas and Seattle. It was not a sur...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump will travel to Beijing for a rescheduled summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping on May 14 and 15, the White House announced on Wednesday. Trump had been scheduled to travel to China later this mo...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - Armed militants ambushed Nigerian security forces who were responding to a distress call in the northwestern state of Kebbi, fatally shooting nine soldiers, a police officer and one resident, authorities said Wednesday. ...