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Al Beeber LETHBRIDGE HERALD An audit of municipal election processes shows numerous challenges that the City of Lethbridge is facing before and during the Oct. 20 vote. An audit report to city council Tuesday by City Clerk and returning officer Bonnie Hilford and deputy City Clerk David Sarsfield illustrated those challenges for the City during [...] Read More »

Joe Manio LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER For ages, paganism and its practitioners have existed in the shadows.  Annual events like the 2025 Pagan Fest at Galt Gardens Saturday aim to bring paganism and its practitioners out into the open light in an inclusive and family friendly day of music, guest speakers, arts and crafts and [...] Read More »

Nathan Reiter Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A newly renamed political party is hoping to bring Alberta independence to a vote in a binding referendum. The Republican Party of Alberta (RPA) was founded in 2022 as the Buffalo Party but was renamed earlier this year. Cameron Davies, the leader of the RPA says the name change [...] Read More »

Al Beeber Lethbridge Herald City council today will hear an application for a land use bylaw amendment that will allow the creation of a 24-hour child care and respite facility for youth with disabilities at the site of a westside daycare that is under construction. If the project gets the green light, it will be [...] Read More »

Al Beeber LETHBRIDGE HERALD The provincial government on Monday announced it is investing $22 million over three years to modernize and expand the renal dialysis unit at Chinook Regional Hospital. The province says the funding will improve programs for southern Alberta who who chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease and depend on dialysis for [...] Read More »

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… Defence spending to boost Canada’s economy: report Ottawa’s ramped up defence-spending plans will give the economy a lift, but not enough to save it from a recession, a newly released report forecasts. The updated analysis from Oxford Economics [...] Read More »

Daytime temperatures from Windsor, Ontario, to St. John’s, Newfoundland, are going to remain hot a little longer. Environment Canada has several heat warnings in effect this morning, along a 2,400-kilometre stretch of southeastern Canada. The warnings forecast daytime highs in some areas between 31 and 34 degrees Celsius — with a humidex of 37 to [...] Read More »

The day before the suspected hijacking of a light aircraft triggered a security scare at Vancouver’s airport this week, former commercial pilot Shaheer Cassim posted on social media that he was a “messenger of Allah” sent to save humanity from climate change. A 39-year-old man with the same name has now been charged with hijacking, [...] Read More »

Menita Prasad knows that turtles don’t rate the same kind of attention from the public as a “cute, fluffy mammal.” The director of animal care at Greater Vancouver Zoo says that’s one reason why British Columbia’s endangered western painted turtles deserve special care. The zoo is part of a decade-long project to revive the fortunes [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet today with First Nations leaders about his government’s controversial major projects legislation. The closed-door meeting was promised by Carney in June after chiefs said their rights were not respected by the rush to push the Building Canada Act through Parliament in June. The legislation allows cabinet to [...] Read More »