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Snow routes are no longer active and on-street parking can resume, the City of Lethbridge announced early Saturday afternoon on X.

Monday at the Southern Alberta Ethnic Association, 19 Queen’s Platinum Jubilee medals were given to Lethbridge residents for donating time and resources to various charitable causes in the region.

It may be September, but Albertans are still getting hit with those high temperatures they saw over the summer.

  LETHBRIDGE, ALTA. -- The Streets Alive outreach team was out before the noon Monday, checking downtown parks and handing out water to vulnerable members of the community. “We’ll do whatever needs to be done to keep them healthy,” said team member Mackenzie Filewych. “They definitely need help in the hot weather, because there’s not many places they can go just to cool off.” At Galt Gardens, staff and volunteers from other agencies were also handing out water, sunscreen, and ...

Just two weeks ago, a thin blanket of snow was draped over much of Lethbridge, but in typical southern Alberta fashion, the weather has flip-flopped once again bringing on a wave of intense heat.

  LETHBRIDGE, ALTA. -- For the second time in just a week, parts of southern Alberta saw wind gusts climb over 120 km/h Tuesday, which is almost enough to be considered a Category 1 hurricane. It was the second time in less than a week that aggressive weather caused headaches for a number of Lethbridge residents and city staff. The city’s north-end saw the brunt of the issues with multiple power outages, some lasting longer than five hours and others persisting until about 1 a.m. “All...