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By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald   If St. Patrick’s Day is the headline act, consider the rest of Irish Heritage Month the encore worth sticking around for. By March 18, the green hats are wrinkled, the shamrock shakes are gone, and even the most enthusiastic “honorary Irish” have traded pub songs for coffee. But beyond ... Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald Canada’s Premier Food Corridor (CPFC), in a continuing effort of expanding their reach and working collaboratively with other municipalities focused on the agri-food sector, is hosting a delegation from Invest Quebec over the couple of days.  The CPFC is a collaborative network of economic development professionals and municipalities committed to ... Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman  Lethbridge Herald CURA Climate Inc. a Canadian climate‑tech company developing electrochemical solutions to decarbonize cement production, announced a partnership with Grand Forks Concrete Ltd.  The partnership includes a formal agreement to jointly deploy both a pilot‑scale demonstration plant and a first‑of‑kind commercial facility to convert agricultural spent lime into low‑carbon cement and ... Read More »

Nathan Reiter  Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge Polytechnic Kodiaks women’s basketball program will have a new head coach next season. In a press release on Tuesday, the Kodiaks announced that Ken McMurray has retired from his duties as head coach. McMurray initially got involved with the Kodiaks program as an assistant coach under Deanna Simpson and ... Read More »

Nathan Reiter Lethbridge Herald Autumn Fisher is looking forward to the next chapter in her rugby career. Fisher, who is currently a Grade 12 student at Chinook High School in Lethbridge, has committed to play for the Saint Mary’s University (SMU) Huskies women’s program next season. The Huskies are a U SPORTS school located in ... Read More »

By Alexandra Noad Local Journalism Initiative Reporter-Lethbridge Herald Lethbridge Sport Council (LSC) will be hosting a Give-it-a-Try diving event at 6 p.m. tomorrow at the university aquatic centre, for adults to try a new sport in a low commitment, low pressure environment at no cost. This event is in partnership with the Lethbridge Diving Club ... Read More »

Morning Joe- Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Every March 17, a strange transformation happens across Canada. Otherwise sensible adults put on novelty shamrock glasses, beer turns suspiciously green, and people with names like “Dave from Red Deer” suddenly insist they are one-sixteenth Irish on their mother’s cousin’s side. Welcome to St. Patrick’s Day — the one ... Read More »

MORNING JOE- Joe Manio, Lethbridge Herald In case you weren’t paying attention, yesterday was Friday the 13th. And if you didn’t cancel any plans, avoid ladders or spend the day hoping not to encounter any black cats… congratulations. For generations, this date has carried a reputation somewhere between “mildly unlucky” and “absolutely cursed.” Some people ... Read More »

AT THE LEGISLATURE- Lethbridge East MLA Nathan Neudorf  Budget 2026, Focused on What Matters, delivers several important commitments for Lethbridge and the South Zone, particularly in health care, education, and the infrastructure that supports our region’s growth. At a time when costs are rising and global economic pressures are affecting every province, our government has ... Read More »

Editor, The chaotic political situation in the United States (U.S.) is forcing Canadians to rethink the way we do business. While the White House picks fights with Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney has been busy modernizing our military, attracting foreign investment and finding new reliable alliances abroad. Securing emerging markets like India and China. That’s ... Read More »

Editor, Alberta has always been a province that builds, and Northback wants to continue that legacy. Alberta proudly embraces its natural resource sector. From crude oil to natural gas, wheat, canola, forest products, beef and more, Alberta has an impressive history of producing natural resources and supplying them to Canada and the world. It is ... Read More »

All Albertans are subject to the legal treaty agreements made between Alberta’s original peoples and Canadian settlers, who were then subjects of the British Crown. These treaties are not simply historical agreements; under Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982, the treaty rights of Indigenous peoples are recognized and affirmed as part of the supreme ... Read More »