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Al Beeber Lethbridge Herald Updated transit routes aimed at improving connections to growing neighbourhoods in Lethbridge will come into effect on June 25. And the $240,000 cost of the changes will have no impact on the transit department’s budget, which has experienced a surplus for the last two years so costs are being covered by a ... Read More »

Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Financial scams are everywhere these days, both online and offline, and seniors are a lucrative target for fraudsters.  Bilked older adults, robbed of their savings and financial security, are often left with no way to recoup their losses. Worldwide, people age 60 and over lost a combined ... Read More »

Alexandra Noad Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Watch, a volunteer extension of Lethbridge Police Service (LPS), received a Blackfoot Society name Wednesday. Its new name, Kiayipookaa Kana’kamotsi or Kiaayopokaa Kanakasin, translates to Bear Child Society. They also received an honour song to accompany their name. The official spelling is currently in discussion as ... Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge Bulls came back to beat the Fort McMurray Giants 6-5 in the 10th inning on Thursday night at Spitz Stadium. The Giants had scored a run  in the top half of the extra inning to make the score 5-4 before the Bulls went to work in the bottom ... Read More »

BY Justin Seward  Lethbridge Herald  With the Southern Alberta Summer Games (SASG) now just over a week away in Taber, Team Lethbridge feels preparations are on track and the athletes are full of excitement heading into the event. Olivia Olivieri, Team Lethbridge regional director, has experienced plenty of excitement from both the athletes and the ... Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge Bulls thumped the Brooks Bombers 10-1 to end a six-game road trip with a 4-2 record on Wednesday night during Western Canadian Baseball League action. The Bulls opened the scoring in the second inning when Adonis Bernal scored from second base on a Bernie Socarras double. Brooks tied ... Read More »

Nick Kossovan For the Herald I write a Substack newsletter called The Art of Finding Work, offering pragmatic job search advice which currently has over 23,500 subscribers; therefore, I have a vested interest in the monetization of content provided via a subscription-based model and why Substack’s current street-level ads announcing “Media isn’t dead. It’s on Substack.” ... Read More »

Katherine Scott Troy Media Low-wage workers in Canada are facing growing job insecurity as the economy weakens. With affordability top of mind for many Canadians, the growing divide between high- and low-income earners is becoming harder to ignore. Racialized workers—those who are Indigenous, Black or other people of colour—make up a growing share of this ... Read More »

Nathan Neudorf Lethbridge East MLA Summer in Alberta is one of the best times of the year, and a great opportunity to make sure that your costs aren’t rising with the warmer temperatures. As air conditioning is becoming increasingly more common in homes across both our city and province, summer energy use is rising. In ... Read More »

Editor, This is an open letter to all members of the Alberta provincial government. I realize that an anti-pipeline stance in the prairies is controversial at best, but as I check air quality advisories and limit my toddler’s outdoor time to protect his health, I see the problems with that perspective all around me. I ... Read More »

Editor, “Brazil nuts!”  My son and I were howling with laughter on the way home from Fort Macleod where the Townhall on Coal Mines was held on June 11. We were part of a jam-packed and raucous crowd of 540 people who wanted to hear Premier Smith, Ministers Jean, Schulz and Sigurdson, and MLA Petrovic ... Read More »

Editor, It happened back in the early ‘50s. That’s when the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) converted from steam power to diesel engines. Result: Alberta’s Crowsnest Pass coal lost its primary market. Crowsnest Pass coal, ideal for powering steam engines, can’t compete economically with British Columbia in terms of suppling metallurgical coal. Mining engineers, coal mining ... Read More »