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Tim Kalinowski Lethbridge Herald tkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com Lethbridge Fire and EMS is set to welcome 12 new recruits into full-time service in the coming weeks, and this year’s training, due to COVID-19, hasn’t quite been like a class like any other, said lead trainer Les Hilliard. “We had to adapt and overcome,” he explained to reporters at [...] Read More »

Two people are facing charges after Lethbridge police executed a search warrant and recovered numerous weapons as well as several stolen items. Members of the Downtown Policing Unit and Priority Crime Unit executed the search warrant on Friday at a home in the 1800-block of 5 Avenue North. The subjects were taken into custody and [...] Read More »

Picture Butte, Alta. – Coaldale and Picture Butte RCMP along with the Picture Butte Fire Department/EMS responded to a collision Monday morning on Highway 25 approximately 2.5 km south of Picture Butte. Preliminary indications are that a blue car travelling north on Highway 25 lost control and collided with a southbound semi truck. The 18-year-old driver and lone occupant of [...] Read More »

Lethbridge Police are seeking the public’s assistance to identify the driver and locate a vehicle involved in a hit and run collision that occurred Saturday morning at approximately 8:50 am in the intersection of South Parkside Drive and Parkside Drive South.  The offending vehicle fled the scene and is a red 2014-2018 Chevrolet Silverado, 4 [...] Read More »

Tim Kalinowski Lethbridge Herald tkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com Minister of Health Tyler Shandro will not intervene in an Alberta Health Services decision to end its local EMS dispatch contracts in Lethbridge, Calgary, Wood Buffalo and Red Deer. “My decision is not to overturn the AHS decision,” he writes, “and I look forward to supporting them and your municipalities [...] Read More »

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what’s on the radar of our editors for the morning of Oct. 20 … What we are watching in Canada … Debate begins later today on the Conservatives’ push for an anticorruption committee the Liberals argue [...] Read More »

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. EDT on Oct. 20, 2020: There are 200,939 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 94,429 confirmed (including 6,044 deaths, 79,529 resolved) _ Ontario: 65,075 confirmed (including 3,050 deaths, 55,978 resolved) _ Alberta: 22,673 confirmed (including 292 deaths, 19,243 resolved) _ British Columbia: [...] Read More »

OTTAWA – Debate begins later today on the Conservatives’ push for an anticorruption committee the Liberals argue undermines Parliament. The Liberals are threatening to turn the subsequent vote on the Conservatives’ motion to set up the committee into a confidence matter, which could in turn trigger an election. The Conservatives are already scoffing at the [...] Read More »

OTTAWA – Canadians continue to experience mental health difficulties due to the pandemic, with one in four saying their stress level is higher than during the first COVID-19 wave, according to a new poll. The online survey by Leger and the Association for Canadian Studies found that only 19 per cent of Canadians say their [...] Read More »

OTTAWA – The federal government is asking an appeal court to overturn a finding that Canada’s spy agency breached its obligation to be fully forthcoming when seeking investigative warrants, a move that is prompting concerns on the part of rights advocates and a national-security expert. A Federal Court of Canada ruling made public in July [...] Read More »

EDMONTON – An Edmonton man who sold a mix of fentanyl and meth to a man who later died of an overdose says he is a victim of drug addiction himself. Jamie Michael Dixon pleaded guilty last fall to criminal negligence and drug trafficking in the death of the 39-year-old from Sherwood Park, Alta., in [...] Read More »

EDMONTON – Alberta politicians are to return to the legislature Tuesday with a plan to discuss up to 20 new bills – many of which are focused on the province’s economic recovery. Government house leader Jason Nixon says there’s a variety of legislation prepared for the fall sitting that’s aimed at speeding up an economic [...] Read More »

CALGARY – Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he and the federal Conservative leader did everything reasonable to respect COVID-19 guidelines during a livestream meeting this weekend. Kenney and Erin O’Toole, who tested positive for the novel coronavirus a month ago and has recovered, sat side-by-side during Saturday’s event and neither leader wore a mask. The [...] Read More »

CALGARY – Higher oil prices are expected to bolster returns as Canadian energy companies report third-quarter results over the next few weeks but observers say a recent stall in the crude price recovery and ongoing oil market uncertainty make any increases in production and spending plans unlikely. Oil prices stabilized in the third quarter with [...] Read More »

Saskatchewan NDP Leader Ryan Meili raised the prospect Saturday that re-electing Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe could lead to Alberta-style health-care cuts and privatization. Meili held a campaign event outside a Saskatoon clinic on Saturday, and said Alberta’s United Conservatives are firing thousands of health-care employees. He said conservative governments always cut and privatize in [...] Read More »

LOS ANGELES – Jeff Bridges says he is being treated for lymphoma and his prognosis is good. The 70-year-old actor channeled his The Dude character from “The Big Lebowski” in a statement on social media about the diagnosis Monday evening. He said he understands the disease is serious. He expressed gratitude to his family, friends [...] Read More »

TUCSON, Ariz. – An angry President Donald Trump came out swinging Monday against Dr. Anthony Fauci, the press and polls that show him trailing Democrat Joe Biden in key battleground states in a disjointed closing message two weeks out from Election Day. On the third day of a western campaign swing, Trump was facing intense [...] Read More »

USHUAIA, Argentina – At the edge of Argentina in a city known as “The End of the World,” many thought they might be spared from the worst of the coronavirus pandemic. Sitting far from the South American nation’s bustling capital, health workers in Ushuaia were initially able to contain a small outbreak among foreigners hoping [...] Read More »

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Argentina reached 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases Monday, making it the second nation in Latin America to reach the grim milestone and only the fifth in the world to do so. The Ministry of Health said 1,002,662 people have now been diagnosed with the virus, and 26,716 have died. Brazil reached [...] Read More »

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court will allow Pennsylvania to count ballots received up to three days after the election, rejecting a Republican plea. The justices divided 4-4 Monday, an outcome that upholds a state Supreme Court ruling that allowed election officials to receive and count ballots until Nov. 6, even if they don’t have a [...] Read More »