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By Kristine Jean Southern Alberta Newspapers ssnews@sunnysouthnews.com The RCMP Major Crimes Unit is investigating a shooting in the Town of Raymond, early Saturday morning.    In a press release Monday morning, Feb. 9, RCMP confirmed several details of the incident and said Raymond RCMP were dispatched to a report of shots fired in the Town [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald The Community Foundation of Lethbridge and Southwestern Alberta (CFLSA) announced Monday they will be celebrating their 60th anniversary with a special one-time grants program.  Executive Director Charleen Davidson said they want the community to celebrate with them and came up with the idea of providing a one-time fund for celebrations.  [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herad Festival Square hosted the annual chilly fundraiser with plungers in costumes, corporate teams, and even a hesitant police dog braving a five-foot-deep ice tank. As the countdown ticked-down to zero Saturday, participants readied themselves with nervous laughter and confident grins as the tank dared them to jump. The 2026 Polar [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald Environment Lethbridge is looking for artists and crafters to participate in their first Art and Craft Supply Swap on Feb. 15.  The event is a two-part event, where anyone in the community who has extra art and craft supplies can drop them off on Feb. 14, and come back on [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald Excite Lethbridge has opened the nomination process for the Whoop-Up Days Parade Marshal to the public this year and they are asking for their input.  Whoop-Up Days is one of the most attended events of the year, which kicks off with a parade led by a member of the community, [...] Read More »

TUMBLER RIDGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA — Police say they’re at the scene of what they describe as a “confirmed active shooter incident” at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in east-central British Columbia. RCMP say the “original suspect” is believed to be dead, but officers were working to determine whether a second suspect was involved. They say a [...] Read More »

BURNABY — The jury in a British Columbia coroner’s inquest into the deaths of a family of four in Prince Rupert has found that they died of homicide and suicide. The jury, which found 38-year-old Christopher Duong died of self-inflicted wounds to the neck, has recommended that police be informed when someone they have brought [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — The federal government may name the winner of the heated competition to supply the navy with a fleet of new submarines as soon as this year. Stephen Fuhr, secretary of state for defence procurement, says Ottawa will “probably” announce a winner this year — and declared the vessels will be in the water [...] Read More »

Canadians in Cuba are waiting for flights home as an energy crisis worsens in the nation amid a U.S. oil blockade. Major Canadian airlines, including Air Canada, WestJet and Air Transat, have already suspended service to Cuba. All three airlines have confirmed they plan to bring travellers back home to Canada. Calgary-based WestJet says its [...] Read More »

QUÉBEC — Christine Fréchette, leadership candidate for the Coalition Avenir Québec, is promising to revive a popular fast-track immigration program that her government had recently ended. She says if she’s elected to replace Premier François Legault, she would reopen the Programme de l’expérience québécoise — known as the PEQ — for two years. The decision [...] Read More »