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Community values, individual freedom and fiscal responsibility are top priorities for Lethbridge’s People’s Party of Canada (PPC) candidate. Clara Piedalue is a single parent who has raised her family in the city for the past 17 years. She has worked as a business broker for nearly a decade, and says she’s witnessed first-hand the impact ... Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDapulido@lethbridgeherald.com The University of Lethbridge will be hosting the final PUBlic Professor Series talk of the season this Thursday, where professor Robin Bright will talk about reading. Bright, a professor of education at the university, says her talk will provide a snapshot of what reading looks like across Canada, how many people engage in ... Read More »

LETHBRIDGE HERALDabeeber@lethbridgeherald.com Former Lethbridge mayor Chris Spearman will be representing the Liberal Party of Canada in the Lethbridge riding when voters go to the polls April 28 to elect a new federal government. Spearman, who now lives in the Pincher Creek area, didn’t run for re-election in the 2021 municipal election and has since become a ... Read More »

By James Tubb  Southern Alberta Newspapers  The Lethbridge Hurricanes split the final weekend of the WHL’s regular season. After a back-and-forth 4-2 win Friday at the VisitLethbridge.Com Arena over the Edmonton Oil Kings, the Hurricanes fell 10-1 Saturday on the road to the Medicine Hat Tigers. Lethbridge, entering the game Saturday locked into fourth place ... Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Lethbridge Hurricanes U11AA hockey team continue to role this season as they inched closer to a provincial banner this past weekend. The Canes swept the Red Deer Chiefs in the South Division Playoffs to take home the South Division banner and that earned them a berth in this weekend’s ... Read More »

By Justin Seward Lethbridge Herald The Okanagan Valley will have a second Western Hockey League in it comes this fall next to the  Kelowna Rockets. The WHL announced on Monday that the Penticton Vees were granted an expansion franchise that will begin play in September 2025. “This is an exciting day, as the Western Hockey ... Read More »

POINT OF VIEW – Editor Scott Sakatch I have to admit, when I read that Prime Minister Mark Carney was going to call an election this past Sunday, I didn’t imagine it would have much of an impact here. After all, conservative-leaning candidates have held the Lethbridge riding through every election since 1930. That’s almost ... Read More »

By Roslyn Kunin For Troy Media Canada isn’t just facing bad news from the ever-changing chaos south of the border; we’re generating our own with damaging policies right here at home. Nowhere is this more evident than in the higher education sector, which is grappling with budget shortfalls, layoffs, hiring freezes, program reductions and cuts ... Read More »

LEAVE IT TO BEEBER – Al Beeber Herald readers will occasionally see on our pages the byline of a writer named George Lee, who is doing a Local Journalism Initiative contract for the Fort Macleod Gazette. George, I and Gazette owner Frank McTighe have a long history together, meeting for the first time way back ... Read More »

Editor, With regard to Scott Sakatch’s recent opinion in respect of Lethbridge drivers. You might want to focus on the real muppets on our roads. The ones who drive with no lights on; don’t know how to turn left from a single into a two lane road.  Don’t indicate properly. Stop in the middle of a junction. There ... Read More »

Editor, In a recent letter I received in the mail from Rachael Thomas, MP Lethbridge, she claims that Canada is broken under the leadership of the Liberal government. While I would agree that our current government has not been living up to its commitments to its citizens and the world to the best of their ... Read More »

Editor, For the past two months all President Trump ever talked about is punishing Canada, Mexico and China over the 25 per cent tariffs. I am sure many people have prayed that this will never happen over 30 days. Lydia and I pray to God daily that Trump will change his mind, and not impose ... Read More »