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Alexandra Noad Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Friends of Medicare participated in the LSCO’s Living Well Expo as part of Seniors Week activities this past week. Chris Gallaway says after listening to many seniors’ concerns about lack of medical doctors and high emergency wait times, he sees the need for better continuing care options [...] Read More »

Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Inititiative The Lethbridge Police Service (LPS) has concluded a six-week, city-wide enforcement project targeting street-level drug traffickers that has resulted in the seizure of thousands of doses of drugs, more than 150 criminal charges and two dozen arrests. “This operation is a direct response to the concerning rise in [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido Guzman Lethbridge Herald Two students from Lethbridge competed in the Canada Wide Science Fair in Fredericton, NB this week amongst 390 finalists from across the country.  After successfully competing at the Southern Alberta Regional Fair in March 2025, Nycea Hazelwood, Grade 11 student and this year’s valedictorian of LCI, and Mehnaz Khan, Grade [...] Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald Parents will have to wait until Sunday night for the results of a weekend strike vote Alberta Teachers Association to know what will happen with their children if teachers across the province decide to strike.   In a statement from the ATA, communications officer Heather Grant said that, since members are [...] Read More »

Sam Leishman Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Lethbridge’s urban forest is free from Dutch Elm Disease (DED) after a small threat five years ago, and the City needs your help to keep it that way. Back in August of 2020, lab tests confirmed that two trees planted on public land in the Uplands neighbourhood [...] Read More »

MONTREAL — Poor air quality fuelled by wildfires burning across the Prairies left a large swath of the country enveloped in a haze again on Saturday, but Environment Canada said the situation is expected to improve over the weekend. Parts of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador were [...] Read More »

MONTREAL — Poor air quality fuelled by wildfires burning across the Prairies left a large swath of the country enveloped in a haze for another day. Parts of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador were experiencing poor air quality and reduced visibility due to the wildfires, a situation [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney says the G7 leaders’ summit later this month in Alberta will see Canada seeking agreements in three key areas. Carney released a statement today saying Canada’s top priority will be strengthening global peace and security, which includes countering foreign interference and transnational crime, as well as improving responses to [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Tiff Macklem is wearing an Edmonton Oilers pin as he reflects on coming very close to beating big odds. It’s a significant day for the governor of the Bank of Canada: he’s just laid out his reasons to the entire country and a global audience for keeping the central bank’s benchmark interest rate [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — The American ambassador to Canada is pushing back on Ottawa’s travel advice, saying his country doesn’t search phones at the border and arguing some Americans travelling here are having a tough time. “We welcome Canadians to come in and invest, to spend their hard-earned Canadian dollars at U.S. businesses,” U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra [...] Read More »