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By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald  The Friends of Lethbridge Public Library will be hosting a book sale once again, but this time only of Fiction books.  With over 300 boxes of Fiction books, Barbara Gibson, director of the Friends of Lethbridge Public Library Booktique says there will be plenty to choose from.  “This sale will [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Lethbridge’s growing multicultural restaurant scene. Downtown Lethbridge is getting a new taste of the Philippines with the opening of Hapag Ala Eh, a family-owned restaurant in a space with deep culinary history. “Hapag” refers to a dining table—specifically one where people gather to eat. “Ala Eh” is a well-known colloquial [...] Read More »

By Alexandra Noad Local Journalism Initiative Reporter- Lethbridge Herald Lethbridge city council will now be meeting as a full group for both city council meetings and what was the former special policy committees (SPC’s), now will become Community Issues Committee (CIC), after a 7-2 vote in favour of the motion in both the second and [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald  Homegrown southern Albertan from the Seven Persons area, Kynan Vine is committed to ensuring Lethbridge remains a must-attend stop on the Canadian rodeo tour. Vine, who has produced many of Canada’s largest rodeo events, has led the Lethbridge & District Pro Rodeo every year since its return to the Canadian [...] Read More »

By Kristine Jean Southern Alberta Newspapers ssnews@sunnysouthnews.com The RCMP Major Crimes Unit is investigating a shooting in the Town of Raymond, early Saturday morning.    In a press release Monday morning, Feb. 9, RCMP confirmed several details of the incident and said Raymond RCMP were dispatched to a report of shots fired in the Town [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu says her department needs more information from air carriers and unions to settle recent allegations of unpaid work in the airline sector. On Thursday, the federal government published the initial findings of a probe it launched six months earlier into allegations made during collective bargaining between Air Canada and [...] Read More »

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed … Tumbler Ridge ‘one big family,’ mayor tells vigil A memorial of flowers, lights and stuffed animals grows in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., as the community grapples with the fallout of a mass shooting that killed nine people, mostly [...] Read More »

TUMBLER RIDGE — A memorial of flowers, lights and stuffed animals grows in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., as the community grapples with the fallout of a mass shooting that killed nine people, mostly children, along with the 18-year-old shooter who police say took her own life. Young children, teenagers, parents and grandparents huddled against the cold [...] Read More »

TUMBLER RIDGE — Tumbler Ridge in the remote Peace region of northeast British Columbia was once best known as a coal mining boom town that was built from scratch in the 1980s, then faced challenges from shifts in its economic fortunes. Now it is grappling with the greatest tragedy in its 45-year history, which has [...] Read More »

TABER — The father of a student killed in a school shooting in southern Alberta almost 27 years ago says forgiveness was at the heart of how he tackled the tragedy. 
 Retired reverend Dale Lang lost his 17-year-old son, Jason, after the teen was shot by a fellow student in a hallway at W.R. [...] Read More »