March 28th, 2024

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Minerals and gems in spotlight

By Justin Seward - Lethbridge Herald on March 27th, 2024

An array of rocks and minerals were on display during the Silver Cove’s CanGems Rock and Gem Show at the Agri-Food Hub and Trade Centre over the past weekend. “The focus of the Rock N’ Gem show is to showcase minerals and fossils, different crystals, gems from around the world,” said Marcel Jensen-Allard, road show ... Read More »

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Pancholi drops out of NDP race, supports Nenshi

By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on March 27th, 2024

LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Rakhi Pancholi is out of the race to become the next leader of the Alberta NDP. The MLA for Edmonton-Whitemud on Tuesday morning said she has decided to end her campaign. Pancholi, in an email to media, said she believes the party should unite behind the person who she feels will be the ... Read More »

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Funding approved for drug debris cleanup

By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on March 27th, 2024

LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Lethbridge city council on Tuesday unanimously approved the expenditure of provincial needle debris mitigation funding. The request to approve the funding was made by City administration. A presentation submitted to council by chief financial officer and treasurer Darrell Mathews says the City has entered into a funding agreement with the province to support ... Read More »

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Council approves allocation of Reaching Home funding

By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on March 27th, 2024

LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Lethbridge city council on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve an administration request to support the expenditure of federal Reaching Home funding. The City’s contribution agreement for funding ends on March 31 but a four-year extension will begin on April 1 running through March 31, 2028. Administration needed council’s approval to spend money that ... Read More »

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Council once again declares April 7 Green Shirt Day in Lethbridge

By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on March 27th, 2024

LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com City council has once again proclaimed April 7 Green Shirt Day. Council has declared the day ever since 2019 as a tribute to Logan Boulet who died April 7, 2018 the day after a horrific crash involving the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team in Saskatchewan that left 16 dead. The day after Boulet ... Read More »

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Future of Enmax Centre focus of report to SPC

By Lethbridge Herald on March 26th, 2024

Al Beeber – LETHBRIDGE HERALD – abeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The Governance Standing Policy committee of Lethbridge city council on Thursday will hear a presentation on a master plan for the Enmax Centre which considers a possible replacement of the facility. The SPC meets at 1:30 p.m. in council chambers. It consists of Belinda Crowson, Jenn Schmidt-Rempel, Rajko Dodic and ... Read More »

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Man accused of luring underage girl charged with breaching release conditions

By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on March 26th, 2024

LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A 20-year-old Lethbridge man who was released from custody shortly after he was charged last summer with several sex-related offences, is back behind bars. Sean Cedric Bilo was released following a judicial interim release hearing in June and ordered to comply with numerous conditions. However, he was recently arrested and charged with one ... Read More »

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May sentencing set for woman who helped dispose of body

By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on March 26th, 2024

LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A Claresholm woman who helped get rid of Lane Tailfeathers’ body following his brutal beating nearly three years ago, is set to be sentenced later this spring. Michelle Lee Toth pleaded guilty earlier this month to a charge of interfering with a dead body, and while she agreed with the facts that were ... Read More »

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Impact of racism and abuse discussed at expo

By Justin Seward - Lethbridge Herald on March 26th, 2024

Social epidemiologist Cheryl Currie talked about the impact of racism and abuse for Indigenous people during the Honouring Traditions and Reconciliation Society’s Walking Together Expo at the Agri-Food Hub and Trade Centre on Saturday. “I published many, many studies now showing that Indigenous people in Alberta are experiencing racism at a level that is higher ... Read More »

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First-time author writes Crowsnest Pass ghost story

By Steffanie Costigan - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on March 26th, 2024

A local author has written a new adult horror novel and is preparing for a reading of her first book at Analog Books downtown. Kimberly Kocken, a high school English teacher who has become an author, has written “The Ghosts of Lille,” a ghost story that contains history about the Franks Slide that occurred in ... Read More »

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2025 trial set for human trafficking case

By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on March 26th, 2024

LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A southern Alberta man facing two-and-a-half-year-old charges for sex-related offences, is finally going to trial, but not until next year. Mohammad Neirabani is scheduled to stand trial Jan. 20-24, 2025 in Lethbridge Court of King’s Bench. The judge and jury trial was set during a brief court hearing in King’s Bench on Monday, ... Read More »

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