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• Local dragon boat racers win silver at national championships - Lethbridge News Now

  03-09-2022 23:01 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
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• Two arrested in connection to Banff homicide - Lethbridge News Now

  03-09-2022 22:26 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
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• Mikhail Gorbachev's home village remembers him well

  03-09-2022 22:20
  As Moscow paid last respects to Mikhail Gorbachev on Saturday, residents of the far-away village where he spent his youth lauded him too. The Soviet Union's reformist last leader, who died Tuesday at age 91, grew up in Privolnoye, a village of about 3,000 in southern Russia's Stavropol region, the son of peasants. He retained the region's distinct accent until his last days and held onto a village-bred boy's common touch. Although he went away to Moscow, about 1,100 kilometers (700 miles) to the
  
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• Canadian astronaut Saint-Jacques says Artemis 1 delay disappointing, but right call

  03-09-2022 21:35
  NASA's decision to scrub the launch of its new moon rocket is disappointing but necessary due to another leak found ahead of the planned test flight, Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques said Saturday. The Artemis 1 mission, which aims to send an uncrewed NASA Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket to the moon, was delayed after the rocket sprang a fuel leak, forcing controllers to call off the second attempt this week. A Monday's first effort to send a crew capsule with test dummies
  
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• Calgary firefighter shares creative passion ahead of Lego Masters TV show appearance

  03-09-2022 21:35
  Stephen Joo is a Calgary firefighter by occupation, but in his spare time he can often be found spending countless hours putting together incredible creations out of Lego bricks. The AFOL (Adult Fan of Lego) will be competing on Season 3 of Lego Masters alongside fellow Calgary Fire Department member Stephen Cassley. The pair will be one of three teams from Canada on the show which premieres September 21, 2022 on CTV. “Lego was a passion for me that started when I was a young kid
  
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• Man seriously injured in southwest Calgary incident

  03-09-2022 21:17
  Calgary police are investigating after a man was seriously injured in a Saturday morning incident that took place in southwest Calgary. Around 2:30 a.m., police were called to a home on the 900 block of 67 Avenue S.W. for reports of a break and enter and aggravated assault. Preliminary investigation suggests that an altercation took place between the homeowner and another person that resulted in serious injuries to the person. The injured man was transported to hospital where he is in serious, b
  
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• RCMP investigating violent altercation on Banff Avenue early Saturday

  03-09-2022 19:25
  Banff RCMP are investigating a "violent altercation" they say took place early Saturday on the 100 block of Banff Avenue, according to the RCMP of Alberta Facebook page. Police wouldn't release any more details about the nature of the altercation but part of the Banff Avenue pedestrian zone appears to be taped off. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact the police at 403-762-2226. This is a developing story that will be updated as more information becomes available&hellip
  
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• RCMP investigating fatal stabbing at Banff bar early Saturday

  03-09-2022 19:25
  Banff RCMP are investigating after a violent altercation that left a 27-year-old Foothills, Alta. man dead early Saturday. At around 12:09 a.m., Banff RCMP responded to a call about a man being stabbed after an altercation outside the Dancing Sasquatch bar on Banff Avenue. Police located the victim, who was transported to hospital where he was declared dead. Two men were taken into custody. Police said the incident wasn't related to a similar event that took place Aug.5 at the same bar. Anyone w
  
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• RCMP investigating fatal altercation on Banff Avenue early Saturday

  03-09-2022 19:25
  Banff RCMP are investigating after a violent altercation that left a 27-year-old Foothills, Alta. man dead early Saturday. At around 12:09 a.m., Banff RCMP responded to a call about a man being stabbed after an altercation outside a bar on Banff Avenue. Police located the victim, who was transported to hospital where he was declared dead. Two men were taken into custody. Police said the incident wasn't related to a similar event that took place last month. Anyone with information is asked to con
  
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• CTrain schedule disrupted over long weekend

  03-09-2022 18:31
  Transit riders from the southwest part of the city will have to improvise a little this weekend. That's because Calgary Transit has shut down the red line between Chinook Station and City Hall Station between Saturday and Monday. The city tweeted Saturday that buses will replace the train and run every five minutes. There will also be disruptions Sept. 4 due to the Pride Parade route along 9 Avenue, the city announced on its website. That's when shuttle buses will not travel to City Hall station
  
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• Reeves: Plane threatening to crash in Mississippi lands - Lethbridge News Now

  03-09-2022 17:49 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
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• Plane threatening to crash into Mississippi Walmart lands: authorities

  03-09-2022 16:19
  Authorities say a plane that was circling over northern Mississippi and whose pilot had threatened to crash it into the ground landed safely on Saturday. Gov. Tate Reeves announced on Twitter that the "situation has been resolved and that no one was injured." He thanked law enforcement agencies that helped in bringing the aircraft down. The plane started circling over Tupelo, Mississippi, about 5 a.m. and was in the air for more than five hours. Benton County Sheriff Dispatcher Connie Strickland
  
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• Pilot in custody after threatening to crash Mississippi plane

  03-09-2022 16:19
  An airplane circled over north Mississippi on Saturday morning, causing panic on the ground as the pilot threatened to crash into a Walmart. Hours later, the plane landed safely in a field, and police took the pilot into custody. Gov. Tate Reeves announced on Twitter shortly after 10:30 a.m. that the "situation has been resolved and that no one was injured." He thanked law enforcement agencies that helped in bringing the aircraft down. The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed that the plane
  
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• Man who flew plane over Mississippi faces criminal charges

  03-09-2022 16:19
  Authorities say a man who stole a plane and flew it over Mississippi after threatening to crash it into a Walmart store faces charges of grand larceny and terroristic threats. Tupelo Police Chief John Quaka said at a press conference that Cory Wayne Patterson didn't have a pilot's license but had some flight instruction and was an employee of Tupelo Aviation. Authorities said Patterson stole the plane, took off and then called in the threat to 911. Quaka said Patterson could also face federal ch
  
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• Two vehicle collision early Saturday disrupts traffic on Memorial Drive

  03-09-2022 16:05
  A two vehicle collision is disrupting traffic at the intersection of Memorial Drive and 68 Street S.E. early Saturday morning. Eastbound lanes on Memorial are open, but traffic is being diverted south onto 68 Street, while westbound Memorial is completely shut down at the intersection. Calgary police are on scene. There's no word on injuries.ALERT: Traffic incident on 68 St and Memorial Dr E. #yyctraffic #yycroads — YYC Transportation (@yyctransport) September 3, 2022This is a developing s
  
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• 2 vehicle collision early Saturday disrupts traffic on Memorial Drive

  03-09-2022 16:05
  A two vehicle collision has been disrupting traffic at the intersection of Memorial Drive and 68 Street S.E.since early Saturday morning. Eastbound lanes on Memorial are open, but traffic is being diverted south onto 68 Street while westbound Memorial is completely shut down at the intersection. Calgary police are on scene. "Around 5 a.m. it would appear that a blue Subaru was travelling northbound on 68 Street at the intersection with Memorial Drive," said Acting Sgt. Kevin Cullen. "There was a
  
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• 'First time in 50 years': Native trout returned to alpine lake in Banff National Park

  03-09-2022 15:39
  A white bucket sits in a creek flowing out of Hidden Lake -- a cold alpine lake behind the Lake Louise Ski Resort in Banff National Park. Inside the bucket, which has been turned into a remote streamside incubator with a few plumbing supplies, are dozens of tiny westslope cutthroat trout, a threatened species in Alberta. "We have some eggs that we put into the lake about three weeks ago," Shelley Humphries, an aquatics specialist with Parks Canada, said Thursday as she gave reporters a first-han
  
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• Construction on Phase 1 of Link Pathway approved - Lethbridge News Now

  03-09-2022 15:30 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
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• Canada recalls Enoki mushrooms for possible Listeria contamination

  03-09-2022 15:22 via globalnews.ca
  Enoki mushrooms distributed by WK Produce were sold in 150g packages in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario and may also have been distributed nationally.
  
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• Fuel leak ruins NASA's 2nd shot at launching moon rocket

  03-09-2022 15:18
  NASA's new moon rocket sprang another dangerous fuel leak Saturday, forcing launch controllers to call off their second attempt to send a crew capsule into lunar orbit with test dummies. The first attempt earlier in the week was also marred by escaping hydrogen, but those leaks were elsewhere on the 322-foot (98-meter) rocket, the most powerful ever built by NASA. Launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson and her team tried to plug Saturday's leak the way they did the last time: stopping and re
  
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• Fuel leak disrupts NASA's 2nd shot at launching moon rocket

  03-09-2022 15:18
  NASA's new moon rocket sprang another hazardous leak Saturday, as the launch team began fuelling it for liftoff on a test flight that must go well before astronauts climb aboard. For the second time this week, the launch team began loading nearly 1 million gallons of fuel into the 322-foot (98-metre) rocket, the most powerful ever built by NASA. Monday's attempt was halted by a bad engine sensor and leaking fuel. As the sun rose, an over-pressure alarm sounded and the tanking operation was brief
  
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• Ukraine's nuclear plant partly goes offline amid fighting

  03-09-2022 15:13
  The head of the UN nuclear watchdog said Saturday that the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine was disconnected to its last external power line but was still able to run electricity through a reserve line amid sustained shelling in the area. International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Grossi said in a statement that the agency's experts, who arrived at Zaporizhzhia on Thursday, were told by senior Ukrainian staff that the fourth and last operational line was d
  
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• Ukraine's nuclear plant goes offline amid fighting

  03-09-2022 15:13
  Ukraine's and Europe's largest nuclear plant has stopped supplying Ukrainian-held territories with electricity, Kremlin-backed authorities said Saturday, as a team of inspectors from the UN nuclear watchdog continued their mission at the site. The Russian-appointed city administration in Enerhodar, where the Zaporizhzhia plant is located, blamed an alleged Ukrainian shelling attack on Saturday morning, which they said had destroyed a key power line. "The provision of electricity to the territori
  
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• Lethbridge Police Services call for Victim Services volunteers - Medicine Hat News

  03-09-2022 12:38 via medicinehatnews.com
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• GAIL LETHBRIDGE: Time to break taboo on private health care - Saltwire

  03-09-2022 11:09 via saltwire.com
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• Day 3: Main Camp Recap – Lethbridge Hurricanes - Lethbridge Hurricanes

  03-09-2022 09:00 via lethbridgehurricanes.com
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• Single-vehicle crash in southeast Calgary kills one

  03-09-2022 05:37
  One person is dead following a single-vehicle crash in southeast Calgary on Friday evening. Police say the incident occurred shortly before 8:30 p.m., at the intersection of 58 Avenue and 26 Street S.E. The intersection was shut down Friday night as the CPS traffic unit investigated.
  
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• Friday night fatal collision believed to involve modified racing vehicle

  03-09-2022 05:37
  One person is dead following a single-vehicle crash in southeast Calgary on Friday evening. The incident occurred shortly before 8:30 p.m., when police were called to the 2800 block of 58 Avenue S.E. for reports of a serious-injury collision. Police say they believe the victim, a man in his 30s, was driving westbound on 58 Avenue S.E. towards the entrance of the plaza in the 2800 block when it lost control, went up a curb and hit two large boulders. The collision with the boulders redirected the
  
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• 'Waiting to see what unfolds': Chetamon Mountain wildfire estimated at 400 hectares

  03-09-2022 04:44
  Fire crews continued to battle a wildfire in Jasper National Park moving toward critical power lines for the region. The wildfire burning on Chetamon Mountain, 22 kilometres north of the Jasper townsite, was first discovered Thursday around 1:30 a.m., and was between two to three hectares in size. By Friday afternoon, officials said it had grown to around 30 hectares in size, then 300 by that evening. As of Saturday morning, it was estimated to be 100 hectares larger. According to the national p
  
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• 'Waiting to see what unfolds': Chetamon Mountain wildfire estimated at 1,500 hectares

  03-09-2022 04:44
  Fire crews continued to battle a wildfire in Jasper National Park moving toward critical power lines for the region. The wildfire burning on Chetamon Mountain, 22 kilometres north of the Jasper townsite, was first discovered Thursday around 1:30 a.m., and was between two to three hectares in size. By Friday afternoon, officials said it had grown to around 30 hectares in size, then 300 by that evening. As of Saturday morning, it was estimated to be 100 hectares larger and growing. By Sunday morni
  
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• Chetamon Mountain wildfire surpasses 300 hectares

  03-09-2022 04:44
  A wildfire in Jasper National Park surged to more than 300 hectares in size Friday evening, Parks Canada says. The wildfire burning on Chetamon Mountain, 22 kilometres north of the Jasper townsite, was first discovered Thursday around 1:30 a.m., and was between two to three hectares in size. By Friday afternoon, officials said it had grown to around 30 hectares in size. According to the national park authority, the wildfire is burning on the mountains' upper slopes in inaccessible terrain for fi
  
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• Serena Williams loses to Tomljanovic in U.S. Open farewell

  03-09-2022 04:34
  Leave it to Serena Williams to not want to go quietly, to not want this match, this trip to the U.S. Open, this transcendent career of hers, to really, truly end. Right down to what were, barring a change of heart, the final minutes of her quarter-century of excellence on the tennis court, and an unbending unwillingness to be told what wasn't possible, Williams tried to mount one last classic comeback, earn one last vintage victory, with fans on their feet in a full Arthur Ashe Stadium, cellphon
  
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• Banff businesses hope to hire a few more workers before snow flies

  03-09-2022 03:29
  The last long weekend of summer usually means the end of tourists for hot spots like Banff, but some business owners in the booming mountain village are relieved, because they haven't had enough workers all season – and don't know where they're going to find more in time for ski season. Darren Fisher owns the Rocky Mountain Bagel Company, but this summer that has meant working the cash register because he simply can't find people to work there. "We are probably missing 12 or 15 people over
  
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• Careless driving trial wraps Friday, judge to return with decision

  03-09-2022 02:15 via globalnews.ca
  Closing arguments were made in a careless driving case that resulted in the death of a 10-year-old boy in Lethbridge.
  
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• Wildfire burning on mountain near Jasper, no risk to townsite: Parks Canada

  03-09-2022 01:58 via globalnews.ca
  A highly visible wildfire is burning high on a mountain near the townsite in Jasper National Park, but as of Friday afternoon, Parks Canada said there was no safety risk.
  
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• New constables join Lethbridge, Blood Tribe police services

  03-09-2022 01:43 via globalnews.ca
  A graduation ceremony at Lethbridge College on Friday saw seven eager cadets walk across the stage to officially join one of two southern Alberta police services.
  
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• Claresholm man faces multiple charges after police seize stolen farm equipment, weapons

  03-09-2022 01:04
  A Claresholm man faces multiple charges in relation to the seizure of stolen items, weapons and possibly drugs from his home. Wednesday, at around 3:30 p.m., Claresholm RCMP officers started a theft investigation after getting a tip that a local man was in possession of stolen farm equipment. Police obtained a warrant, searched the man's residence south east of Claresholm, and discovered a number of items that had been reported stolen, including a dirt bike, an industrial-sized weed whacker, and
  
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• Hate crimes and extremism in Alberta shifting to lone-actor behaviour: report

  03-09-2022 00:42 via globalnews.ca
  The report outlined changes in hate-motivated violence, extremism and terrorism in Alberta and Canada from 2019 to 2022.
  
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• Closing arguments heard in Neil Skjodt's Lethbridge careless driving trial - CTV News Calgary

  03-09-2022 00:42 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
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• Closing arguments heard in Neil Skjodt's Lethbridge careless driving trial

  03-09-2022 00:42
  The Crown and defence gave their closing arguments Friday in Neil Skjodt's five-day trial in connection  the death of a 10-year-old boy hit in a Lethbridge crosswalk.   Skjodt, 55, is charged with careless driving under the Traffic Safety Act. The family of 10-year-old Charles McIntyre were once again in the courtroom, wearing green shirtsto signify McIntyre’s favourite colour. McIntyre and his younger brother were hit by a vehicle while crossing the road with their father i
  
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• Expect traffic delays as Bridge Rehabilitation project gets underway - Lethbridge News Now

  03-09-2022 00:39 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
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• Charges upgraded in random stabbing death at Inglewood condo building

  03-09-2022 00:07
  Calgary police say charges against a man accused of randomly stabbing another man to death last week have been upgraded. Edward Brett Davidson, 39, was killed in the hallway of his Inglewood condo building on the afternoon of Aug. 27. Cory Carl Miklic, who also goes by the name Cory Szabo, 41, was initially charged with manslaughter, but during a court appearance Friday the charge was upgraded to second-degree murder. Police allege that Miklic used a knife to attack Davidson "randomly" and
  
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• Alberta defence lawyers walk out of Edmonton, Calgary courts as part of latest job action

  03-09-2022 00:04 via globalnews.ca
  Contract criminal defence lawyers protested outside Calgary and Edmonton law courts and are no longer taking files to represent some of the the most severe crimes.
  
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