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Dave Mabell Lethbridge Herald dmabell@lethbridgeherald.com Now being described as “the oilsands of sun and wind,” southern Alberta is receiving a $1.5-billion boost from its fast-growing alternative energy industry. Overseas investors continue to underwrite new Alberta projects, a just-released report confirms, due to strong demand around the world for energy from renewable resources. “International investment is [...] Read More »

For 30 years, New West Theatre has been entertaining southern Albertans with its unique blend of music and mirth. That’s quite an accomplishment – a cause for “Celebration.” And that’s the focus of New West’s holiday show this year, opening Wednesday. “This show is a tribute from our family to yours,” the performers say, celebrating [...] Read More »

SUBMITTED BY THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE With the holiday season fast approaching, Lethbridge businesses are leaning in to the holiday retail frenzy. According to the Retail Council of Canada, in 2019 Canadians are estimating to spend about $790 on their holiday purchases, but in reality, will most likely spend over $820. >The same survey also [...] Read More »

Tim Kalinowski Lethbridge Herald tkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com The Community Foundation of Lethbridge and Southwestern Alberta handed out over $286,000 in grants to various community projects through the Henry S. Varley Fund for Rural Life and Community Priorities Granting Program on Thursday. About 37 projects in total benefited from the funds this year, many of which were based [...] Read More »

Lethbridge The Real Canadian Superstore and Real Canadian Wholesale Club in Lethbridge is joining other Loblaw stores across the country for the Loblaw Companies National Holiday Food Drive. Until Dec. 24, Loblaw stores are asking shoppers to donate non-perishable food items and funds at checkout to help support local food banks. Nationally, the campaign aims [...] Read More »

Some unlikely neighbours are moving in around the northernmost communities of the Northwest Territories, across the icy tundra of Canada’s High Arctic. Inuvialuit hunters and trappers say grizzly bears are showing up in increasing numbers on islands of the Beaufort Sea and experts say climate change is likely a driving factor. “The grizzly bears are [...] Read More »

VANCOUVER – Standing out in the rain on a path between tents in Vancouver’s Oppenheimer Park, Shane Redpath said he has no idea where he’ll go if he’s forced out of the homeless camp. Redpath has lived in Oppenheimer Park for nearly the full year that it’s been in place and while it’s often framed [...] Read More »

TORONTO – No winning ticket was sold for the $31 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. The jackpot for the next draw on Dec. 17 will be approximately $40 million[...] Read More »

WINNIPEG – A Manitoba Mountie is dead following a crash on the Perimeter Highway. RCMP say the collision happened Friday afternoon on the highway that surrounds Winnipeg. Police say the officer was on duty at the time. RCMP say they are deeply saddened and their thoughts are with his family. No other details were released. [...] Read More »

OTTAWA – Signs began to emerge Friday that the coming race to replace outgoing Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer will be an acid test for whether social conservatives have a place in the Conservative Party of Canada. But difficult as that discussion could be for the party, an even nastier, more personal fight is threatening to [...] Read More »

CALGARY – The Calgary Fire Department says a person has died in hospital after being pulled from a burning home in the city’s Glendale neighbourhood. A release from the department says fire crews were called to a residence on Kelwood Place Friday around 11 p.m. and were met by heavy smoke and flames pouring from [...] Read More »

EDMONTON – A man convicted of attacking an Edmonton police officer and then running down four pedestrians with a U-Haul van has been sentenced to a total of 28 years in prison. Abdulahi Hasan Sharif, who is 32, was handed 18 years for striking Const. Mike Chernyk with a car before stabbing him multiple times [...] Read More »

HINTON, Alta. – Police say an evacuation that had been ordered in a hamlet near Hinton, Alta., following damage to a natural gas line has been lifted. However, RCMP are advising the residents of Brule that gas to the community has been shut off and they could be without for several hours. Mounties were called [...] Read More »

CALGARY – A Calgary jury has found a man and a woman guilty of all charges related to a 2017 quadruple homicide that stemmed from a kidnap-for-ransom plot, but an aunt of two of the victims says she’s still struggling to make sense of what happened. Yu Chieh Liao, who also goes by the first [...] Read More »

EDMONTON – Alberta’s Opposition is renewing its attempt to have the ethics commissioner investigate whether the government was in a conflict of interest when it passed legislation firing an elections official investigating Premier Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party. “The passing of this bill … is a gross violation of the rule of law,” NDP Leader [...] Read More »

KHARTOUM, Sudan – A court in Sudan convicted former President Omar al-Bashir of money laundering and corruption on Saturday, sentencing him to two years in prison. That’s the first verdict in a series of legal proceedings against al-Bashir, who is also wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes and genocide linked [...] Read More »

North Korea says it successfully performed another “crucial test” as its long-range rocket launch site that would further strengthen its “reliable strategic nuclear deterrent.” The announcement on Saturday comes as North Korea continues to pressure the Trump administration over an end-of-year deadline set by leader Kim Jong Un to salvage faltering nuclear negotiations. North Korea’s [...] Read More »

SAN FRANCISCO – California Gov. Gavin Newsom has rejected a $13.5 billion settlement that Pacific Gas and Electric struck just last week with thousands of people who lost homes, businesses and family members in a series of devastating fires that drove the nation’s largest utility into bankruptcy. The decision announced Friday in a five-page letter [...] Read More »

SAN FRANCISCO – California gov. Gavin Newsom has rejected a bankruptcy reorganization plan that Pacific Gas and Electric reached just last week with thousands of wildfire victims, including a $13.5 billion settlement. Newsom says in a five-page letter to PG&E CEO William D. Johnson that the plan’s most important elements are providing safe and reliable [...] Read More »

WASHINGTON – Melania Trump on Friday appeared to condone her husband’s criticism of 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, saying through a spokeswoman that her 13-year-old son, Barron, is in a different category than the teenage climate activist “who travels the globe giving speeches.” “He is a 13-year-old who wants and deserves privacy,” spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said in [...] Read More »