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Airport mock-crash highlights emergency response
By Ry Clarke - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on November 11th, 2022
The Lethbridge Airport held a full-scale emergency exercise earlier this week, mandated every four years by Transport Canada, simulating an emergency impacting the airport. The event united participants from Lethbridge Airport, Fire and Emergency Services, Police Services, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the City of Lethbridge, as they came together working through a scenario. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City budget deliberations commence next week
By Lethbridge Herald on November 10th, 2022
Al Beeber – LETHBRIDGE HERALD – abeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Ready, set, deliberate! City council, acting as the Economic Standing Policy Committee, will begin at least five days of deliberations starting Monday on the upcoming budget for 2023-26. City residents are looking at a minimum 3.77 per cent tax hike annually over those four years. Any tax hike here will ... Read More »
1 responseNeuron Mobility adds College to riding area
By Ry Clarke - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on November 10th, 2022
Neuron Mobility has added to its riding area which now includes Lethbridge College’s campus. Providing students, staff, and visitors an opportunity to have an alternative mode of transportation to and from the area, riders will have access to all 80 hectares of the campus with device speeds being capped at 15 km/h. Along with this ... Read More »
1 responseJudge declines jail sentence in assault conviction
By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on November 10th, 2022
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A judge has rejected a recommendation that a Lethbridge man go to jail for assaulting a commissionaire and threatening to shoot people working at a Service Canada office in the city. Crown Prosecutor Adam Zelmer asked Judge Jerry LeGrandeur Wednesday in Lethbridge provincial court to sentence Bradley Kim Bergman to a jail term ... Read More »
1 responseNPF opposed to reduction of less-lethal options for law enforcement
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on November 10th, 2022
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com Earlier this month, the National Police Federation on behalf of 20,000 RCMP members wrote to federal government leaders to outline their concerns over reducing the number of intervention options available to RCMP members across the country. The NPF submitted an information package, which included a video that showcases and explains the types of less-lethal ... Read More »
1 responseMore compassion vital to addressing local drug crisis
By Ry Clarke - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on November 10th, 2022
Downtown Lethbridge Business Revitalization Zone, the Lethbridge Chamber of Commerce, and the City of Lethbridge held the second instalment of its Downtown Safety Education and Information Sessions Tuesday at CASA. The session focused on understanding the drug crisis with Jacen Abrey, director of the Indigenous Recovery Coaching Program (IRC), and Samantha Scout, program coordinator for ... Read More »
6 responsesManslaughter trial scheduled for January cancelled
By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on November 10th, 2022
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A manslaughter trial that was scheduled to run early next year for a southern Alberta man has been cancelled. Cullen Drake Tailfeathers was set to stand trial for a week beginning Jan. 23, 2023, but the trial was vacated Wednesday during a brief hearing in Lethbridge provincial court. Calgary lawyer Jim Lutz, who ... Read More »
1 responseBryan Adams thrills fans with career-spanning set
By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on November 10th, 2022
LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com They braved subzero temperatures Tuesday to hear Canadian icon Bryan Adams and surely left “so happy it hurts.” A packed Enmax Centre crowd showed their love to the 63-year-old Adams for a rousing two-hour set that featured two encores. It was his first show here since 2006. Adams, dressed in black short-sleeved shirt, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Indigenous veterans still struggle for proper recognition
By Ry Clarke - Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on November 10th, 2022
When it comes to remembrance it is important to take the time and recognition for all veterans that have served in Canada’s military. Indigenous people have been a part of Canada’s military efforts since the War of 1812, and numbering in the thousands during WWI and II, and the Korean War. But when it came ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Unlawful confinement conviction attracts four month sentence
By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on November 10th, 2022
LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com Preventing a man from leaving an apartment while he was being assaulted earned Kur Wuol Kur an unlawful confinement charge and a jail sentence. Kur pleaded guilty to the charge Wednesday in Lethbridge provincial court and was handed a four-month custodial sentence. Kur and a friend, Abdalla Ibrahim, were smoking outside an apartment ... Read More »
1 responseCounty reeve receives royal distinction at RMA conference
By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on November 10th, 2022
LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com Lethbridge County Reeve Tory Campbell received the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal this week at the Rural Municipalities of Alberta convention in Edmonton. The Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal was created to mark the 70th anniversary of Her late Majesty’s accession to the Throne as Queen of Canada. To celebrate this ... Read More »
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