March 12th, 2025

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Better service, travel desires feature in new airport survey

By Al Beeber - Lethbridge Herald on February 1st, 2022

LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com The city has launched an online survey seeking resident input on the airport. The survey, available at getinvolvedleth.ca, will run until April 30. The city wants to know what residents would like to see the airport improve to better serve them, passengers and the surrounding community. “As we’ve been working to make lots ... Read More »

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Sentencing adjourned in armed robbery case

By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on February 1st, 2022

LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A sentencing hearing for a woman who robbed and threatened to kill a man nearly two years ago, has fallen prey to the COVID pandemic and has been adjourned for a month. Chelsey Marie Beringer was to receive the judge’s decision on sentencing Monday in Lethbridge provincial court, but given recent court protocol ... Read More »

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Students protest in support of faculty

By Dale Woodard - Lethbridge Herald on February 1st, 2022

With a potential strike looming, students at the University of Lethbridge are standing in support of faculty. On a windy Sunday afternoon, students and faculty alike gathered alongside University Drive with signs waving at honking motorists passing by to garner support for the faculty with a strike vote scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday. Earlier this ... Read More »

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New option allows businesses to pay for customer parking

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on February 1st, 2022

LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com A new way to pay for parking in Downtown Lethbridge was introduced Monday through an opportunity for businesses to have the ability to pay for their customer parking. The program is called “Business Add Time to Plate” and will allow business owners to create an account with the City of Lethbridge to pre-pay ... Read More »

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Lethbridge gun show back on target

By Dale Woodard - Lethbridge Herald on February 1st, 2022

After a year away, the Lethbridge Gun and Hobby Show was back and right on target. The two-day show hosted by the Southern Alberta Rifleman’s Association that has been setting up at Exhibition Park since the early-1990s was back at Lethbridge Exhibition Park Saturday and Sunday after being cancelled in 2021 due to the COVID-19 ... Read More »

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MLA Hunter under fire for taking part in protest

By Trevor Busch - Lethbridge Herald on February 1st, 2022

LETHBRIDGE HERALDtbusch@lethbridgeherald.com Taber-Warner MLA Grant Hunter is under fire from members of the opposition and some within the ranks of his own party after he participated in the border blockade protest at Coutts over the weekend. In a Facebook post on Saturday, Hunter posed with his family in front of a line up of big ... Read More »

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Coutts mayor “not impressed” with blockade, RCMP prepared for enforcement

By Lethbridge Herald on February 1st, 2022

Al Beeber – Lethbridge Herald Coutts mayor Jim Willett supports the right to protest but the truck convoy blockade at Coutts goes too far for him. “I’m not impressed with the total blockage,” said Willett. Later in the day Monday RCMP said the blockade, which started Saturday, was no longer lawful and resources are in ... Read More »

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Indoor walking club popularity keeping people moving

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman - Lethbridge Herald on January 29th, 2022

LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com Runner’s Soul Walking Club continues to offer a warm place for seniors to keep on moving at the Servus Sports Centre twice per week. For the fall season, the Runner’s Soul Walking Club decided to limit their registration to 65 participants due to COVID, which they were pretty close to reaching a few ... Read More »

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Arsonist gets eight months on multiple charges

By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on January 29th, 2022

LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A Lethbridge man who pleaded guilty late last year to 11 criminal charges, including arson and assault with a weapon, has been sentenced to slightly more than eight months in jail. Lowe was sentenced Thursday in Lethbridge provincial court, nearly three months after he pleaded guilty to arson and assault, as well as theft under $5,000, ... Read More »

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Conviction in police pursuit case

By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on January 29th, 2022

LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A dead end road, barbed wire fence and even an irrigation ditch didn’t stop Shawn Samuel Fralick from trying to elude police during a chase on Aug. 31, 2020. Sheriffs tried to stop Fralick while he was driving on Highway 3 near Fort Macleod after they noticed the rear window was missing from ... Read More »

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Man sent to jail for assaulting hospital guard over mask request

By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on January 29th, 2022

LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com A 28-year-old man who barely completed a two-month jail sentence for assaulting a police officer, has been sent back to jail for an assault against a security guard at the Chinook Regional Hospital. Logan Cash Heavy Shields was at the hospital early in the morning on Jan. 12 to have a finger treated ... Read More »

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