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Alejandra Pulido-Guzman – LETHBRIDGE HERALD – apulido@lethbridgeherald.com Mayor Blaine Hyggen spoke to media Wednesday to provide an update on the Ground Ambulance Service Agreement with Emergency Health Services – Alberta and said he was heading to Edmonton that afternoon, to speak with the provincial government and Mayors of other municipalities dealing with the same issue. [...] Read More »

By Alexandra Noad Local Journalism Initiative Reporter-Lethbridge Herald The Blood Tribe Emergency Services (BTES) has received zero overdose-related emergency calls since last December, marking a significant milestone for the Blood Tribe. This three-month period marks the longest stretch of zero-drug-related interventions in recent history, signalling a decline in opioid overdoses and toxicity deaths on the [...] Read More »

By Alejandra Pulido-Guzman Lethbridge Herald   Aggie Days returned to Lethbridge after many years to host hundreds of students and offer them an opportunity to learn about agriculture.  Over 1,000 southern Alberta area students received immersive education in a variety of agriculture-based topics, from beef and chicken to potatoes and canola, to farm safety and [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald    A visit decades in the making came full circle in Lethbridge this weekend. Reverend Tatsuya Aoki — known within the sangha as Bishop Aoki Socho — returned to the city where part of his spiritual path first took shape, delivering a public Dharma talk Saturday at the Buddhist Temple [...] Read More »

By Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald  The University of Lethbridge and Lethbridge Polytechnic will put Lethbridge at the centre of a key conversation in Canadian health care later this spring, co-hosting the 2026 Western North-Western Region Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing conference from April 26 to 28 at the Sandman Signature Lethbridge Lodge. The three-day [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty announced on Thursday a $738.9-million funding package for First Nations health care, governance and emergency management. She is earmarking $55.6 million to build up community preparedness and emergency management co-ordination. The funds are not directly related to fire management but could help with operations such as wildfire support. [...] Read More »

VANCOUVER — The mother of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., shooting victim Maya Gebala says Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White has offered to pay for her daughter to be treated in California. Cia Edmonds says 12-year-old Gebala, who suffered serious brain injuries in the mass shooting that claimed eight victims’ lives last month, is now stable [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — The federal government is proposing a $1.7-billion fund to help provinces and territories lower the cost of homebuilding. The federal funding is meant to help provinces reduce development fees or other levies on new housing to speed up the pace of construction in Canada. The money can also be used to boost productivity [...] Read More »

OTTAWA — A senior official at the Bank of Canada says the central bank is reconsidering how it thinks and talks about inflation as it prepares to review its five-year mandate later this year. Bank of Canada senior deputy governor Carolyn Rogers is in Brandon, Man., today speaking to a business audience about how the [...] Read More »

MONTREAL — A man who admitted to shooting the gun that killed a 15-year-old girl in Montreal in 2021 was found guilty by a jury on Thursday of first-degree murder and four counts of attempted murder, while his co-accused was acquitted of all charges. With his guilty verdict, Salim Touaibi, 29, is automatically sentenced to [...] Read More »