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By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald The case of a 22-year-old charged with luring a child under 14 and invitation to sexual touching was heard in Lethbridge court Friday.  Sean Cedric Bilo’s charges stem from an incident that took place in December 2025.     In mid-December 2025, police responded to a report that a 13-year-old [...] Read More »

Morning Joe- Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Once upon a time…when I was a child growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 70s, “streaming options” meant adjusting the rabbit-ear antenna and hoping for the best. We had three main channels—ABC, CBS and NBC; plus a local station, KTVU, and my favourite…public television station [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald  At Paradise Canyon Golf Resort, the grass is still winter-yellow, the snow chased off by warmer days and the ever-present wind. But under a bright first-day-of-spring sun on Friday, that’s more than enough for golfers eager to get back on the course—including some who’ve made the trip south from Calgary, [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald If Alberta’s economy is working as designed, then the question raised Thursday at the weekly Southern Alberta Council of Public Affairs (SACPA) meeting was a simple one. Who exactly is it working for? At a one-hour Noon session at the Lethbridge Senior Citizens Organization (LSCO), Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) [...] Read More »

By Alexandra Noad, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter-Lethbridge Herald Economic Development Lethbridge (EDL) celebrated their accomplishments over the past year, shared a glimpse of this years projects and welcomed a new Board of Directors at their Annual General Meeting held on Wednesday evening. Charlene Scheffelmair, outgoing board chair for EDL, says they accomplished a lot in [...] Read More »

WASHINGTON — A British Columbia company has been sanctioned by the United States over its alleged ties to fundraising for the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah. Seven Seas for International Trading and Logistics is among a network of 16 companies and individuals designated for sanctions by the U.S. Treasury Department, which says they are led by [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Members of Parliament continued debate on the government’s contentious hate crimes bill Monday after they returned to Ottawa following a break week that saw both the Liberal and Conservative leaders on international trips. The Liberals have passed a motion to impose a time limit on debate for Bill C-9, which would define hatred [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Lawyers challenging Quebec’s secularism law Bill 21 went before the Supreme Court of Canada on Monday arguing the legislation goes too far and is unconstitutional. The lawyers also argued the Quebec government overstepped its provincial jurisdiction on matters of linguistic minorities, religious freedoms and gender equality when it introduced Bill 21. Ichrak Nourel [...] Read More »

Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree says gun owners have reported more than 51,000 firearms to the federal government with one week left to go in a program to provide compensation for banned guns. The figure is well short of the 136,000 firearms for which the government set aside money when the buyback program for individual [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — As investigators pore over the site where Air Canada Flight 8646 crashed on Sunday night at LaGuardia airport in New York City, a review of publicly available air traffic control radio transmissions offers a glimpse into what controllers were dealing with in the moment before the crash — and the sorrow of one [...] Read More »