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Al Beeber Lethbridge Herald Alberta is on track to set a new provincial record for housing starts with 27,902 in the first two quarters of 2025. The Alberta government said on Monday this is a 30 per cent increase compared to 2024 and outpaces development in all other Canadian provinces. Despite Alberta having less than ... Read More »

Scott Sakatch Herald Editor Ever since I moved back to Lethbridge 18 months ago, I’ve been one of the thousands of people in the city without access to a local family doctor. I’m fortunate enough to still have a physician in Calgary (from when we lived there for six years), but a simple visit means ... Read More »

Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald The Southern Alberta Art Gallery is hosting an exhibition of art that showcases various pieces done by Lethbridge Collegiate Institute students, depicting their thoughts on Artificial Intelligence.  Generative Prompt is a group exhibition of local high school students working in an artist mentorship model with Lethbridge artist Michelle Sylvestre, where students ... Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald Lethbridge’s two American Legion ‘A’ baseball teams are set to compete for a North District Class ‘A’  Championship beginning tomorrow in Lewistown. The Lethbridge Lakers are going in as the eighth seed and will play the ninth place Great Falls Chargers to open the championship on Thursday, with the loser ... Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge 14U Junior Bulls are set to host the country’s best teams for that  level during  the Junior Canadian Little League Championship this week  at Spitz Stadium. “The kids have worked super hard over the last three or four months here to get ready for this tournament,” said Will ... Read More »

By Nathan Reiter  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter- Lethbridge Herald  A little bit of rain didn’t hamper the atmosphere of the 2025 WCBL All-Star festivities in Okotoks. The biggest stars from across the league converged on Seaman Stadium for both the annual home derby and All-Star Game.  Lethbridge sent seven representatives to the All-Star game. Pitchers ... Read More »

Laura Syron Quoi Media A recent surge in misleading ads and AI-generated videos on social media and other online sites promoting bogus diabetes products, treatments and cures — often using fake endorsements, including from my organization Diabetes Canada — poses a serious health risk to people living with diabetes. So far this year, Diabetes Canada has heard ... Read More »

Lorne Fitch For the Herald The Alberta government would have us believe in impossible things, notably that it is possible to reduce red-tape while still boasting of the highest environmental stan dards. With their endlessly-repeated mantra of “responsible resource development” spewing out like hyperbolic exhaust from a rhetoric machine, language becomes ever more devoid of ... Read More »

LEAVE IT TO BEEBER Al Beeber Lethbridge Herald Because of a provincially mandated requirement that all police departments be issued body worn cameras by the end of 2026, local taxpayers could be seeing an additional tax hike of some indeterminate amount when the next council does budget deliberations. Could is the operative word because while ... Read More »

Editor, I enjoy watching the Liberals scurry around pretending they are making headway on trade and insisting all the while that it’s a deal for Canada or no deal. Meanwhile the real negotiator/dictator isn’t even in the room? So we flail away pretending to make headway when we have already been told exactly what is ... Read More »

 Editor: I enjoy watching the Liberals scurry around pretending they are making headway on trade and insisting all the while that it’s a deal for Canada or no deal. Meanwhile the real negotiator/dictator isn’t even in the room? So we flail away pretending to make headway when we have already been told exactly what is ... Read More »

Editor:  I am writing this because I am disappointed with the actions of the drivers on Whoop-Up Drive (Sunday) tonight. A young lady hit a deer on the east-bound lane which I then ran over. I had no time to react.  She pulled off to the side of the road and put her hazard lights ... Read More »