June 19th, 2025

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Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Lethbridge’s annual Battle of the Badges charity softball game returns to Spitz Stadium on Friday, June 27. An annual friendly showdown between firefighters and police officers to raise funds for local causes, it was officially announced by Lethbridge Fire and Emergency Services (LFES) and Lethbridge Police Service

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Local News

  • Local nurse earns singular honour

    Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald A local nurse is the sole Canadian being inducted into the Academy of Emergency Nursing by the Emergency Nurses Association this year. Dawn Peta, a clinical instructor with the rural south zone, a certified emergency nurse and a registered nurse, joins four other inductees for 2025. Of all the 215 emergency ... Read More »

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  • Watershed Council AGM Thursday

    Alexandra Noad Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Oldman Watershed Council will be holding their annual general meeting on Thursday at the Nikka Yuko Japanese Gardens and the public are invited to attend and encourage to sign up as a member to vote on the Board of Directors. Shannon Frank, executive director, says the ... Read More »

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  • Nord-Bridge car show moves to WCHS lot

    Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald Nord-Bridge Seniors Centre is inviting the community to their third annual Father’s Day Show and Shine on June 22 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Winston Churchill High School parking lot.  Ashley Kern, program co-ordinator at Nord-Bridge explains that even though Father’s Day is over, the first Show and ... Read More »

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Local Sports

  • Bulls thump Bombers to end successful road trip

    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 »

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  • Different experiences helped shape Bulls’ Abbott as a player

    By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald Local pitcher Levi Abbott is finishing out his baseball career this summer with his hometown Lethbridge Bulls after gaining valuable experiences through his playing career previously with Vauxhall Academy and at university in the States. Abbott went up through the all the age levels in Lethbridge before going to play ... Read More »

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  • Bomber players getting their time to shine

    Graham Kelly Inside the CFL  It seems the notion that the Blue Bombers are ready for a retirement home is somewhat premature. The five-time straight Western champions hosted a feisty pride of Lions fresh off a feast of Elk meat and thoroughly thumped them 34-20. They did so without quarterback Zach Collaros sitting out a ... Read More »

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Opinions

  • The trade-off in ‘new’ journalism

    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 »

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  • Racialized workers hit hardest by market downturn

    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 »

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  • Keeping your summer – and budget – cool

    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 »

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Letters to The Editor

  • Who wants to buy low-quality coal?

    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 »

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  • Premier Smith needs to show more concern for our future

    Editor, Danielle Smith, I never voted for your predecessor as he was a poor choice for me as an MLA. I decided to vote for you as you presented a ray of light in the party. It did not take long for my hopes to be dashed by you and your policies.  You seem to ... Read More »

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  • Silence on cuts to disabled supports and rights is deafening

    Editor: As a lifelong resident of Lethbridge, a parent, and a self-advocate, I am deeply concerned by the disturbing trend of disability rights and supports being quietly dismantled in our province. We are witnessing the closure of organizations that once empowered disabled voices but are being forced to shut doors due to provincial funding cuts. ... Read More »

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