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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 »

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 »

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 »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald Lethbridge Bulls pitcher Maxim Mrakovcic was late joining baseball but the Australian credits joining the sport and the learning process that goes along with it for getting him to where he is today. “I was a bit of a late bloomer in baseball,” said Mrakovcic “I didn’t even know what ... Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald A women’s tackle football league that is considered worldwide to be  the most highly competitive and the  longest running is expanding to Canada. Ontario-based Cosmos Sports and Entertainment has come into a partnership with Women’s Football Alliance (WFA) to bring teams to Canada. There are currently 12 teams in the ... Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge Bulls split their four-game road series with the Fort McMurray Giants after a win and loss over the weekend in Western Canadian Baseball League action. The Bulls ended the weekend with a 3-1 loss to the Giants on Sunday afternoon. Darcy Berry got the Giants on the board ... 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, 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 »

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 »

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 »